Swarmer - AI-Native Product Design Lead (UX/UI)

• Own the end-to-end product experience across mission planning, simulation, mission execution, real-time monitoring, and post-mission review. • Turn complex operational and technical requirements into clear information architecture, workflows, interaction models, and interface states. • Create conceptual sketches, user flows, wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, and working interfaces, using tools ranging from Figma to AI-assisted coding environments. Running prototypes, not static specs, are the primary deliverable. • Plan and conduct user research with operators, customers, and internal field teams; synthesize qualitative feedback and quantitative product data into actionable decisions. Build personas, journey maps, and workflow models where they help the team decide, not as artifacts for their own sake. • Define, maintain, and continuously improve scalable design patterns, UX standards, component libraries, and design-review processes. • Use generative AI to accelerate research synthesis, ideation, prototyping, implementation, documentation, and evaluation—and help the wider team adopt effective prompting and output-evaluation practices. • Identify opportunities where generative AI can improve the product itself, internal workflows, or the customer experience, and turn promising ideas into testable concepts. • Work closely with product, engineering, autonomy, integration, QA, and field teams to incorporate the capabilities and constraints of the technology stack from the beginning. • Balance immediate field, demo, and customer needs against long-term platform consistency, ensuring short-term solutions do not fragment the core product. • Facilitate brainstorming sessions, present work in cross-team reviews, explain the reasoning behind design choices, and drive decisions to closure. • Validate implementation quality with engineering and ensure that shipped interfaces preserve intended behavior, hierarchy, and usability. • What we need: • What we need: • 5+ years of experience in product design, UX design, interaction design, or design engineering, with ownership of complex digital products. • A portfolio demonstrating multiple end-to-end product or platform design cycles—from discovery and problem definition through prototyping, validation, implementation, and iteration after release. • Proven experience designing complex workflows and state-heavy interfaces used to make consequential decisions—not consumer journeys, marketing sites, or isolated screens. • Systems and components thinking, with experience defining, maintaining, and evolving design systems, UX standards, and scalable design processes. You design reusable behaviors and patterns, not a collection of disconnected screens. • Strong knowledge of usability principles, interaction design techniques, information architecture, and user research methods. • Ability to express precisely what should be built—including behavior, states, constraints, and acceptance criteria—so AI tools and engineers can produce the intended result. • Hands-on experience using Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or similar AI-assisted development tools to build functional interfaces, not only generate concepts. • Ability to evaluate AI-generated work critically for correctness, usability, consistency, edge cases, and unintended behavior. • Strong written and verbal communication in English and Ukrainian. • Readiness to work with sensitive defense-related information and follow strict operational-security practices. This includes judgment about what does and does not go into external AI tools—we use AI aggressively, and we use it inside clear boundaries. • What would be an advantage: • Background in design engineering or frontend development. • Familiarity with prompt-engineering techniques for design, prototyping, and evaluation workflows. • A portfolio that includes AI-built prototypes, code-based design explorations, or shipped AI-assisted products. • Experience designing command-and-control, GIS, simulation, industrial-control, robotics, aviation, automotive, or other real-time operational systems. • Experience in defense tech, autonomous systems, drones/UAVs, or products that combine software with hardware. • Experience conducting research with expert users working under time pressure or in safety-critical environments. • Experience with strategy games—as a player or a designer—and an understanding of how complex systems, resources, spatial information, and changing states can be made legible to users. • Experience in a startup or fast-scaling product company where you helped establish the design function, standards, or team practices. • What you’ll get: • What you’ll get: • The opportunity to define how people interact with coordinated autonomous systems—one of the hardest and most consequential product-design problems in defense tech. • The mandate to shape Swarmer's design language, interaction patterns, design system, and AI-native product-design practice as the company scales. • Direct exposure to real users, real operational constraints, and real product impact – not abstract corporate roadmaps. • Short feedback loops between design decisions, field use, and product learning. • Close collaboration with experienced product leaders, engineers, autonomy specialists, integration teams, and field operators. • A high-ownership culture where initiative, clarity, evidence, and execution matter more than bureaucracy. • Competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package, including insurance, paid sick leave, and 20 paid days off per year. • Benefits of the defense sector (reservation, etc.). • Flexible remote-work options where possible. • How’s the hiring process going: • ✔️Recruiter Screen → ✔️ Interview with a Team →✔️ Technical Interview with Craft Session →✔️Final Interview with CPTO → ✔️Security Check → ✔️Offer Call