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$140,000 - 175,000/ year

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Description

About the company:

The company is a Silicon Valley AI lab helping America and its allies buy technology at the speed of Amazon Prime. We're Stanford dropouts, MIT AI scientists, and Tier-1 Special Forces Operators dedicating our lives to rebuilding the infrastructure that equips the Western world.

We're the youngest founders to ever win a US Defense contract.

About the Role:

As a Product Designer for the company, you'll design for our commercial platform, helping the biggest defense companies in the world and frontier startups win government contracts across our allies, as well as for the GUIs and workflows that government operators use daily to acquire technology at high speed. Partnering closely with the Head of Product Design, you'll cross-collaborate with engineers and operational stakeholders to take features from discovery to delivery, while adhering to a consistent, scalable, and intuitive experience across the the company platform.

We're looking for someone excited to build a new category of product for an audience where Excel is considered "cutting edge." You can work autonomously across multiple domains, from initial research to high-fidelity delivery, and you're able to balance execution speed with deep user empathy. You're user-obsessed, inquisitive, and thrive in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment.

This position is based in San Francisco, CA, 5 days a week in-office.

Travel Required:

Occasional travel, roughly 2 to 5 days per month

Who we’re looking for:

2-5 YOE, full-time, experience in Product/UX Design

Comfortable and well-versed in design tools like Figma, Miro, etc.

Experience leveraging AI tools like Cursor, Claude Code, Lovable, etc.

Can translate raw user feedback into product experiences same day

Willing to rethink from first principles and build a net new category defining product

Experience with user research + prototyping

Someone who has strong storytelling techniques

Willing to travel to customers on site at military bases

(Bonus points) Scrappy and frustrated with how the defense industry currently works

Responsibilities

  • Design with guidance on complex problems, considering long-term impact with polish within a defined the company product area
  • Develop an understanding of our users, informing solutions throughout the design process
  • Collaborate with other engineers, designers, Head of Product Design, and others
  • Exhibit strong craft and interaction design, maintaining a high bar of quality for experiences and our design system
  • Translate the the company brand across product experiences
  • Create design materials as necessary
  • About the Hiring Process
  • 15-minute screening with Mehul (Head of Product Design)
  • 15-minute culture fit with Jarren (CEO) and Joon (CTO) and Oliver (CPO)
  • Design technical / portfolio deep dive with Mehul + Oliver
  • On-site at San Francisco/DC
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  • Experience: Any (new grads ok)
  • Visa: US citizen/visa only

Where you’d work

From the office, 4 or more days a week in the office

The office

No visa sponsorship

About the company

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Your chances

Still hiring, not crowded yet, and a person reads your message.

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In its favour6

  • Still on the company's own careers site, checked 1 h agoModerate evidence
  • Posted yesterday: newer than 97% of open rolesModerate evidence
  • The company opened 4 roles and closed 2 in the last 2 weeks: hiring is movingModerate evidence
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  • Specific about the basics: pay, place, level, stack and contract all statedSlight evidence
  • A tight salary range, set for one seat: $140K to $175KSlight evidence
  • A hiring contact is attached to itSlight evidence

Against it1

  • Listed again after an earlier listing of the same role closedModerate evidence

How crowded?

7 checks

Low

In its favour6

  • Open for 1 day: you'd be among the earlier applicantsModerate evidence
  • You can message the hiring contact and skip the queueModerate evidence
  • In the office in San Francisco: only people nearby can take itSlight evidence
3 moreFewer
  • In the office 4 or more days a week: most applicants want lessSlight evidence
  • Asks for User research, which fewer than 1% of open roles doSlight evidence
  • Pays below most similar roles, which thins the crowdSlight evidence

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Details11 facts · Role, Location, Compensation, Employment
Tech stack
  • Figma
  • User research
  • Prototyping
Type
Full-time
Specialty
Product
Region
United States
Pay period
Annual
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Role

Category
Design
Specialty
Product
Tech stack
  • Figma
  • User research
  • Prototyping

Location

Work model
Office
Region
United States
Office
  • San Francisco, United States
Days in the office
4 or more days
Visa sponsorship
Not sponsored

Compensation

Salary
$140,000 - 175,000 / year
Pay period
Annual

Employment

Type
Full-time

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