Field-Embedded UX Design Manager (AI-Native)

Air; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Air is seeking a Manager of Forward Deployed UX Designers to lead a new field-embedded team delivering AI-native UX solutions. You will partner with customers at depots, factories, program offices, and sustainment facilities to understand mission needs, co-create solutions, and translate insights into product direction.

Travel up to 50% and collaboration with core platform teams are core aspects of the role.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in product design
• 1+ year leading or mentoring designers (as a manager or lead)
• Track record of shaping product and business outcomes in complex enterprise, analytics, or AI-native software
• Experience co-creating with domain experts and stakeholders in technical domains you didn’t start out knowing
• Hands-on fluency with AI, including designing for agentic or model-driven products
• Deep grounding in research and HCI
• Experience in high-growth environments where you built structure without slowing the team down

Responsibilities

• Shape the product experience for deployments and connect it to how customers reach readiness and how Air wins and keeps accounts
• Design the system, not just the screens, by collaborating with engineering and data partners to reveal real constraints and opportunities
• Co-create with field teams and stakeholders to align priorities and translate field insights into product direction
• Grow the team and craft by recruiting, mentoring, and developing forward-deployed UX designers; push for AI-native workflows and rapid prototyping

Skills

Product design

Leadership

Systems thinking

AI literacy

Cross-domain collaboration

Research & HCI

High-growth experience

Job description

Air is seeking a Manager of Forward Deployed UX Designers to lead a new field-embedded team delivering AI-native UX solutions. You will partner with customers at depots, factories, program offices, and sustainment facilities to understand mission needs, co-create solutions, and translate insights into product direction.

Travel up to 50% and collaboration with core platform teams are core aspects of the role.