Head of Product Design
Core
Lead the user experience vision for Hivemind, an autonomy development platform, designing intuitive experiences for technical users including autonomy engineers, software developers, operators, and mission planners.
Role type
Senior IC Product Design Head (Autonomy & AI Systems)
Builds
End-to-end workflows for autonomy development, simulation, testing, analysis, deployment, and operations for defense and aerospace applications.
Domain
Defense technology, aerospace, robotics, and AI-enabled autonomy systems.
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Product design, UX design, human factors, user research, product strategy, technical fluency, team leadership, AI-enabled product experience design, system architecture understanding, visual storytelling, design standards establishment.
Preferred skills
Developer platforms, SDKs, cloud infrastructure, DevOps tools, AI/ML platforms, MLOps, foundation-model-enabled products, copilots, agentic systems, autonomy/robotics/simulation/digital twins, hardware-software integration, defense/aerospace/regulated environments.
Technologies
AI Agents, Cloud, DevOps, Hardware, MLOps, Robotics, UX, UI
Responsibilities
Lead customer research to identify pain points and product opportunities; build scalable user insight collection and sharing; turn feedback into product recommendations and design initiatives; design end-to-end workflows for autonomy and operations; create intuitive experiences for technical users; guide product experience including training and documentation; align Product, Engineering, and executive leaders; establish design standards and UX principles; mentor a design team; define experiences for AI-assisted autonomy and human-AI collaboration; develop approaches for trust, transparency, and human oversight in AI workflows.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with team leadership