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BOND Product Designer Defense
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Summary
Own end-to-end design of Applied Intuition's Defense products: researching with warfighters, designing real-time operator interfaces and approval patterns for agentic autonomy, and extending the Defense design system. Requires 8+ years of design experience, U.S. citizenship, and security clearance eligibility, with up to 25% travel.
You will own defense product design from research through shipped UI. You will conduct research with operators and partners, design real-time interfaces and enterprise autonomy tools, create approval patterns for agentic autonomy, extend the design system, and represent design at reviews and events.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end design for Defense products
- Conduct primary research with warfighters and partners
- Design real-time operator interfaces for constrained environments
- Design approval and escalation patterns for agentic autonomy
- Design enterprise tools for building, simulating, validating, and shipping autonomy
- Extend the Defense design system
- Turn one-off program deliveries into repeatable products
- Represent design at demos, program reviews, and industry events
- Travel up to 25% to bases, ranges, and customer sites
Requirements
- 8+ years of product design experience across at least two different environments
- Bachelor's degree in design or a relevant field
- Experience shipping products from research through launch and iteration
- User research skills
- Experience designing complex technical systems
- Collaboration skills with engineers and technical leads
- Communication skills for design briefs and leadership presentations
- Proficiency with modern prototyping tools
- U.S. citizenship
- Eligibility for a U.S. security clearance
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- 401k retirement benefits with employer match
- Learning stipend
- Wellness stipend
- Paid time off
- Security-clearance sponsorship
