Field-Embedded UX Design Manager

Air; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Air seeks a Manager of Forward Deployed UX Designers to lead a new field-embedded team, shaping product direction with customers at depots and program offices. You’ll scale AI-native workflows, guide design decisions with engineers and data partners, and drive end-to-end discovery, prototyping, and delivery of solutions on the Air Enterprise Readiness platform.

The role combines field work with core platform integration, requiring strategic thinking, hands-on design leadership, and strong

Qualifications

• 6+ years in product design and 1+ year leading designers.
• Design shaping product and business outcomes in complex enterprise/AI software.
• Experience with AI-enabled design and agentic workflows.
• Ability to collaborate with domain experts and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Shape the product experience for deployments and tie to readiness and customer outcomes.
• Design systems and patterns to scale across products and ensure AI collaboration is well defined.
• Lead forward-deployed designers at customer sites and align with cross-functional teams.
• Grow the team and cultivate craft, inclusion, and rigorous design practices.

Skills

Product design experience (6+ years)

Leadership/mentoring designers (1+ yr)

Enterprise/AI-native software design

Systems thinking across products/workf

Co-creating with domain experts

AI-native design fluency

Research & HCI fundamentals

High-growth environment experience

U.S. Citizenship

Job description

Air seeks a Manager of Forward Deployed UX Designers to lead a new field-embedded team, shaping product direction with customers at depots and program offices. You’ll scale AI-native workflows, guide design decisions with engineers and data partners, and drive end-to-end discovery, prototyping, and delivery of solutions on the Air Enterprise Readiness platform.

The role combines field work with core platform integration, requiring strategic thinking, hands-on design leadership, and strong