Product Designer — AI-Driven Defense Platform

Arondite; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity options for EMI

7% pension contribution

Free office meals

Private health & dental

Cycle to work

Relocation support

Visa sponsorship

Training resources

Collaborative colleagues

Job summary

Arondite is a defence-tech startup building Cobalt, a mission-critical operating system for connected defence. We seek a design-led teammate to shape the product vision and user experience in demanding contexts.

As the third design member, you will influence visual direction, collaborate with engineers and users, and push AI-enabled design processes, including prototyping with Cursor & Claude Code. Office-first, with home days possible.

Qualifications

• Experience conducting user interviews.
• Experience of handling and contributing to a design system.
• Experience designing enterprise-grade software for desktop and mobile environments.
• Skill in UI prototyping tools such as Figma and/or Adobe XD.

Responsibilities

• Ship the best design work of your career, raising the bar for visual design and craft in a way that showcases Arondite as a leader in the space.
• Design tailored interfaces that provide the correct level of technical clarity for different user personas and stakeholders.
• Carefully curate the product’s architecture and general user experience as Cobalt grows.
• Understand and empathise with our users to create a solution that best solves the problems they face. This may mean having to define and communicate the 'new' way of doing things.
• Develop an AI-native design process that produces the right artefacts at the right time: from running in-person workshops to prototyping with Cursor & Claude Code.

Skills

UI prototyping

User interviews

Design systems

Enterprise software design

Geospatial UI design

HTML/CSS/JS/TS

React familiarity

Tools

Figma

Adobe XD

Job description

Arondite is a defence-tech startup building Cobalt, a mission-critical operating system for connected defence. We seek a design-led teammate to shape the product vision and user experience in demanding contexts.

As the third design member, you will influence visual direction, collaborate with engineers and users, and push AI-enabled design processes, including prototyping with Cursor & Claude Code. Office-first, with home days possible.