Product Designer

Creative People; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Creative People in Sunnyvale is seeking a seasoned product leader to own the Defense portfolio, bridging real-time operator interfaces at the edge with enterprise tooling used by engineers building autonomy. You will guide research and design, define how much autonomy is granted to systems, and ensure humans remain in the loop, while scaling a design system across fast-paced, high-stakes environments.

This role demands broad experience, clear communication, and the ability to ship complete

Qualifications

• 8+ years across genuinely different environments — no narrow specialists.
• A real track record of shipping full products, not just features.
• Strong research instincts — comfortable learning a brand-new domain fast.
• A portfolio that shows you can handle dense, complex, high-stakes interfaces.
• Curiosity about technical systems (no autonomy/defense background required).
• Sharp communication — you can brief a design review or a general officer with equal clarity.

Responsibilities

• Own products in the Defense portfolio end to end — research, design, and shipped UI
• Design real-time interfaces for the edge — fast, low-cognitive-load UI built for contested, constrained environments
• Shape the trust model for agentic autonomy — how much latitude an operator hands off to an autonomous system, and how humans stay in the loop
• Build out the enterprise tools behind the mission — the platforms engineers use to build, test, and ship autonomy
• Help scale a design system that has to work for both split-second operator decisions and dense enterprise workflows

Skills

Product ownership

Cross-environment experience

Research instincts

Complex UI design

Clear communication

Technical curiosity

Job description

Join a physical AI company valued at $15B, building the intelligence layer for machines that move, sense, and act in the real world — trusted by 18 of the top 20 global automakers and the U.S. military.

The Mission

Forget the LLM hype — the bigger wave is physical AI. In defense, the stakes are as real as it gets: fragmented systems make teams miss threats, and clunky interfaces cost operators seconds they can't get back. This team has already proven its autonomy and simulation tech in real deployments — now they're turning that into scalable products, and design is central to how that happens.

The Role

You’ll own products across the Defense portfolio — moving between real-time operator interfaces at the edge and the enterprise tools engineers use to build, test, and ship autonomy.

You will:

• Own products in the Defense portfolio end to end — research, design, and shipped UI
• Design real-time interfaces for the edge — fast, low-cognitive-load UI built for contested, constrained environments
• Shape the trust model for agentic autonomy — how much latitude an operator hands off to an autonomous system, and how humans stay in the loop
• Build out the enterprise tools behind the mission — the platforms engineers use to build, test, and ship autonomy
• Help scale a design system that has to work for both split-second operator decisions and dense enterprise workflows

What They’re Looking For

• 8+ years across genuinely different environments — no narrow specialists
• A real track record of shipping full products, not just features
• Strong research instincts — comfortable learning a brand-new domain fast
• A portfolio that shows you can handle dense, complex, high-stakes interfaces
• Curiosity about technical systems (no autonomy/defense background required)
• Sharp communication — you can brief a design review or a general officer with equal clarity