Product Designer

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

Requirements:

• 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