Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Swarm Aero develops swarming UAVs and command-and-control software for autonomous aircraft networks. The Product Designer turns product specifications and workflows into polished, implementation-ready designs, improving the consistency and usability of its operational software while working closely with product and engineering.
Responsibilities
- Translate detailed product specifications into high-quality Figma designs
- Design workflows for complex command-and-control and operational software
- Take rough frame descriptions and independently determine layout, hierarchy, interaction details, and edge cases
- Build and maintain reusable Figma components and patterns
- Maintain consistency across the product as new capabilities are introduced
- Work closely with engineering to ensure designs are understood and implementable
- Review implemented functionality and identify discrepancies between design intent and the built product
- Help evolve the overall UX architecture of Legion as the product expands
- Rapidly iterate based on operator, engineering, and customer feedback
- Fill in reasonable UX details independently rather than requiring every interaction to be explicitly specified
Skills
- You are an unusually strong individual contributor
- You are fast
- You have excellent product judgment and visual judgment
- You are comfortable designing dense, information-rich software rather than only simple consumer applications
- You enjoy receiving strong product direction and turning it into an excellent finished experience
- You are comfortable making decisions independently when requirements do not specify every detail
- You can distinguish between a product question that requires escalation and a design detail that you should simply solve
- You communicate clearly with engineers and product leaders
- You care about craft, but you do not allow perfectionism to slow down execution
- You must be exceptionally good at turning product intent into excellent software designs quickly
- Applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State
- Experience with any of the following would be especially valuable:
- Command-and-control systems
- Aerospace or defense software
- Robotics or autonomous systems
- Geospatial interfaces
- Mission planning software
- Industrial or operational software
- Gaming interfaces
- Complex dashboards
- Design systems
- Human-machine interfaces
- Software used in time-sensitive or safety-critical environments
Benefits
- Meaningful equity in a high-growth defense technology company
- Medical, dental, and vision
- 401k
- PTO and paid sick leave
- Monthly wellness stipend
- Daily catered lunch (office)
- Paid parental leave
- Direct impact on a critical national security mission
- A world-class team of engineers and operators solving genuinely hard problems
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