Head of AI-Driven Product Design

Lever, Inc.; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 280,000 - 420,000; Full time

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Job summary

Shield AI is seeking a Head of Product Design to define and lead the user experience vision for Hivemind, Shield AI’s autonomy development platform. You will transform complex autonomy, robotics, and AI workflows into intuitive experiences for engineers, operators, and organizations to deploy autonomous systems at scale.

This hands-on leader will manage a team of elite designers, spend 6–12 months conducting user research, prototyping, and partnering with Product and Engineering to shape the

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Product Design, UX Design, Human Factors, or related fields.
• Proven track record designing and shipping complex technical products, developer tools, platforms, or enterprise systems.
• Strong portfolio showcasing both strategic thinking and hands-on design execution.

Responsibilities

• Lead customer research efforts across product development, customer engagement, and solutions teams to identify pain points, workflows, unmet needs, and product opportunities.
• Establish scalable mechanisms for gathering, synthesizing, and communicating user insights throughout the product development lifecycle.
• Design end-to-end workflows across autonomy development, simulation, testing, analysis, deployment, and operations.
• Own the end-to-end experience of the product including training, documentation, tutorials, and overall workflows.

Job description

Shield AI is seeking a Head of Product Design to define and lead the user experience vision for Hivemind, Shield AI’s autonomy development platform. You will transform complex autonomy, robotics, and AI workflows into intuitive experiences for engineers, operators, and organizations to deploy autonomous systems at scale.

This hands-on leader will manage a team of elite designers, spend 6–12 months conducting user research, prototyping, and partnering with Product and Engineering to shape the