Product Designer

Swarmaero

Oxnard (CA)

On-site

USD 110,000 - 170,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Competitive base salary

Medical, dental, vision, and 401k

PTO and paid sick leave

Wellness stipend

Daily catered lunch

Paid parental leave

Direct impact on a critical mission

World-class team

Job summary

Swarm Aero is redefining air power, building the largest swarming UAV and the most versatile swarming aircraft network in the world. The role focuses on turning written product specifications, workflow descriptions, and rough Figma-frame descriptions into polished, buildable designs for Legion’s command-and-control software.

You will own translating specs into high-quality UI, designing dense workflows, and iterating rapidly with input from operators and engineers while safeguarding UX

Qualifications

Experience designing dense, information-rich software.
Ability to translate written product specs into buildable designs.
Experience with command-and-control or complex dashboards.

Responsibilities

Translate detailed product specifications into high-quality Figma designs.
Design workflows for complex command-and-control and operational software.
Take rough frame descriptions and independently determine layout, hierarchy, interaction details, and edge cases.
Build and maintain reusable Figma components and patterns.
Maintain consistency across the product as new capabilities are introduced.
Work closely with engineering to ensure designs are understood and implementable.
Review implemented functionality and identify discrepancies between design intent and the built product.
Help evolve the overall UX architecture of Legion as the product expands.
Rapidly iterate based on operator, engineering, and customer feedback.
Fill in reasonable UX details independently rather than requiring every interaction to be explicitly specified.

Skills

Product judgment

Visual judgment

Individual contributor

Fast

Communication with engineers

Information-rich UI

Decisive decisions

Craft

Figma

Tools

Figma

Job description

Swarm Aero is redefining air power, building the largest swarming UAV and the most versatile swarming aircraft network in the world. The company is moving quickly to launch the first aircraft designed specifically for swarming, as well as the Command & Control software to mobilize swarms of thousands of heterogeneous autonomous assets and empower human operators to achieve superhuman results.

The team has created and exited multiple startups, negotiated defense deals worth billions of dollars, and designed and built 30+ novel aircraft, with aerospace experience from Scaled Composites, Airbus, Archer Aviation, Blue Origin, and Boom Supersonic.

Mission

Turn clear product direction into exceptional, implementation-ready product experiences.

This role exists to dramatically increase the speed at which product ideas become real. You will work directly with the Head of Product to take written product specifications, workflow descriptions, existing product patterns, screenshots, and rough Figma-frame descriptions and turn them into polished, coherent, buildable designs.

This is a highly execution-oriented design role. We are looking for someone who can move quickly from concept to detailed UI without requiring constant direction or extensive design ceremonies.

What You’ll Own

Translate detailed product specifications into high-quality Figma designs.
Design workflows for complex command-and-control and operational software.
Take rough frame descriptions and independently determine layout, hierarchy, interaction details, and edge cases.
Build and maintain reusable Figma components and patterns.
Maintain consistency across the product as new capabilities are introduced.
Work closely with engineering to ensure designs are understood and implementable.
Review implemented functionality and identify discrepancies between design intent and the built product.
Help evolve the overall UX architecture of Legion as the product expands.
Rapidly iterate based on operator, engineering, and customer feedback.
Fill in reasonable UX details independently rather than requiring every interaction to be explicitly specified.

What Great Looks Like

You receive a well-written product spec and a description of the required Figma frames.

You understand the intent quickly.

You identify the handful of questions that actually matter.

Then you disappear for a period of focused work and come back with something substantially better than what was described.

The resulting Figma should be clear enough that engineering can build from it, polished enough to show a customer, and thoughtful enough that the Head of Product does not need to design every interaction personally.

The Person We’re Looking For

You are an unusually strong individual contributor.
You are fast.
You have excellent product judgment and visual judgment.
You are comfortable designing dense, information-rich software rather than only simple consumer applications.
You enjoy receiving strong product direction and turning it into an excellent finished experience.
You are comfortable making decisions independently when requirements do not specify every detail.
You can distinguish between a product question that requires escalation and a design detail that you should simply solve.
You communicate clearly with engineers and product leaders.
You care about craft, but you do not allow perfectionism to slow down execution.

Particularly Valuable Experience

Command-and-control systems
Aerospace or defense software
Robotics or autonomous systems
Geospatial interfaces
Mission planning software
Industrial or operational software
Gaming interfaces
Complex dashboards
Design systems
Human-machine interfaces
Software used in time-sensitive or safety-critical environments

What This Role Is Not

It is not primarily a branding role.
It is not primarily a UX research role.
It is not a role centered around workshops, design-thinking exercises, or producing large amounts of process documentation.

Success After 6 Months

Product specifications routinely move into Figma without the Head of Product personally designing them.
Engineering receives clearer and more complete designs.
Legion has stronger UX consistency across features.
Design iteration cycles become significantly faster.
The Head of Product spends more time on strategy, customers, and product decisions, and less time producing individual screens.

ITAR requirement

To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

Swarm Aero is an equal opportunity employer. We value diverse backgrounds and experiences and make employment decisions without regard to race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, or disability.

What We Offer