Description
The Staff/Sr. Staff Product Designer role within Shield AI's Hivemind organization is responsible for solving complex User Experience and Product Design problems associated with the end-to-end user experience of developing, deploying, testing and evaluating autonomy solutions.
The core products developed by the Hivemind organization target multiple user personae, ranging from the external end-user (the “Operator” of autonomous systems), to the Test engineer (who tests and evaluates autonomous systems in software-in-the-loop, hardware-in-the-loop and real-world flight test environments), to the AI engineer (who develops and tests autonomy architectures).
Significant portions of the product are best described as developer facing software product (i.e. SDKs, CLIs) and require contribution from designers that have relevant experience. Other portions of the product leverage web technologies and UIs to support configuration management, scenario design, mission planning, mission rehearsal, debrief, and test and evaluation process.
As such, Hivemind is a highly complex and technical product that enables complex workflows across multiple collaborating teams.
Responsibilities:
- Lead end-to-end design for high-impact product areas, from strategy and concept to final implementation.
- Drive and uphold design quality through strong ideation, systems thinking, and refinement of shared design standards.
- Partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Customer Experience to define product direction and user needs.
- Facilitate design strategy workshops and collaboration to drive alignment and momentum.
- Influence cross-functional planning, roadmap prioritization, and long-term product vision through design shaping rituals.
- Advocate for the user experience in company-wide discussions; help shape how product success is defined.
- Mentor other designers through feedback, partnering and thought leadership.
- Lead design reviews to collect feedback from engineering, product and customer surrogates, and align features and capabilities