Air - Vice President of Design

• Define an experience strategy for the Air platform that connects directly to how customers reach readiness, and to how Air wins and keeps accounts. • Establish the principles that guide design decisions across teams, so hundreds of small calls add up to one coherent product. • Identify the critical workflows across development, production, delivery, and sustainment, and make them measurable at the leadership level. • Design the system, not just the screens • Map how work, data, and decisions actually move across a customer's enterprise and supply base. Use that map to shape product architecture and roadmap priorities. • Work with Engineering and Data leadership on platform architecture so the product shows real constraints, opportunities, and solutions. • Set the patterns for human–AI collaboration in agentic workflows. That means deciding what the system does on its own, what it recommends, what a person must approve, and how people know when to trust it. • Build a design system and interaction language that scales across products, and that teams adopt because it makes them faster. • Co-create with the people who know the work • Bring customers, domain experts, and internal teams into the design process early, through working sessions, live prototypes, and field visits, rather than presenting finished work for approval. • Build a research practice that pairs field research in operational settings (depots, factories, program offices) with evaluative testing, and that informs product decisions as well as design decisions. • Lead alignment across Product, Engineering, Data, and go-to-market when priorities compete. Turn competing mental models into a shared picture teams can build against. • Build the design organization • Recruit and develop a team spanning product design, research, design systems, and AI interaction design. Grow leaders to support a scaling company. • Lead the design function's shift into an AI-native development process: prototyping in code, working directly with models, and shortening the path from idea to something users can react to. • Create career paths and a culture of craft, collaboration, and candor. • U.S. Citizenship is required • 10+ years in product design, including 5+ years leading design organizations, ideally as the senior design leader reporting to a C-level executive. • A track record of design shaping product strategy and business outcomes in complex enterprise, analytics, or AI-native software. • Systems thinking at the scale of a business, such as platform strategy, multi-product unification, service design, or workflows that span organizations. • Experience leading co-creation with domain experts and executives in technical domains you didn't start out knowing, and turning that work into a shipped product. • Hands-on fluency with AI, including designing for agentic or model-driven products and understanding how they fail. • Deep grounding in research and HCI. • Experience in high-growth environments where you built structure without slowing the team down. • Current possession of a U.S. security clearance, or the ability to obtain one with our sponsorship • Experience designing for defense, government, or public sector • Background in supply chain, logistics, manufacturing, or industrial operations • We firmly believe that past performance is the best indicator of future performance.  If you thrive while building solutions to complex problems, are a self-starter, and are passionate about making an impact in global security, we’re eager to hear from you.