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Senior Staff Product Designer
| Company | Shield AI |
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| Location | San Diego, CA, USA |
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| Salary | $189000 – $280000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Master’s |
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| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- Master’s in design, HCI, or demonstrated work experience at a comparable level of expertise.
- 8+ years of professional experience in product/UX design with a track record of shipped, user-facing products.
- A portfolio demonstrating exceptional interaction design.
- Expertise with modern design tools (Figma, ProtoPie, etc.) and workflows (design systems, component libraries).
- Experience leading product initiatives end-to-end – from exploration to final implementation.
- Strong systems thinking and the ability to scale and improve design frameworks.
- Excellent communication skills, able to clearly present design rationale to non-design stakeholders.
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.
Preferred Qualifications
- Prior experience in a Principal or Staff-level design role at a product-led company.
- Background in designing enterprise software, platforms.
- Experience designing developer-facing software tools.
- Familiarity with geospatial interfaces and complex data visualization or analysis workflows.
- Experience contributing to design systems and iterating with prototypes, A/B testing, or data-informed workflows.
- Passion for mentoring others and cultivating design team culture and process.
- Experience with automation, autonomy, self-driving, robotics, aerospace, aviation.
