Space Mission Design Lead — Planning & C2 UX

Anduril Industries; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 166,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a mission product designer to own spacecraft mission planning and command & control experiences within the Space organization. You will collaborate with space engineers, product managers, and operators to shape workflows from discovery to delivery, advancing the design direction across programs.

You’ll contribute to design systems evolution, prototype rapidly, and communicate clear decisions to diverse stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in product design, UX, or HCI, with a proven ability to execute high‑craft, technically informed solutions.
• Developing autonomy in design execution with ability to work independently on feature-level work while seeking guidance on complex ambiguities.
• Deep expertise in visual and interaction design with proven ability to design complex technical workflows where precision, clarity, and attention to detail are critical; portfolio demonstrating elegant solutions and high craft quality.
• Systems thinking mindset with ability to map user journeys across multiple user types and operational contexts.
• Strong prototyping skills to drive clarity in decision‑making.

Responsibilities

• Own spacecraft mission planning and command & control experiences from discovery to delivery – partnering with the Space team’s existing designer to define Mission Planning, while progressively expanding into new features and workflows as programs launch as early as 2026.
• Contribute to defining design direction within your domain with guidance from a design lead – identifying opportunities to maximize reuse across programs while developing increasing autonomy in executing your specific feature areas.
• Lead discovery and validation through problem decomposition sessions with internal operators and collaborative workshops with stakeholders; synthesize findings into design decisions for critical operator workflows.
• Familiarize yourself with existing variants of Mission Planning across Anduril including Maritime and Aerial Autonomy to identify opportunities for strategic reuse and adaptation – leveraging Anduril’s existing design system originally developed for ground, maritime, and air to extend and adapt it to unique requirements for the space domain.
• Shape how product design integrates with engineering & product management through close collaboration, iterative prototyping, and hands‑on implementation guidance.
• Ensure your work is easy to follow through strong narrative skills, journey maps, user workflows, high fidelity mockups, and documentation rigor.
• Share and participate in team critique to learn Anduril-wide implementations of Lattice and features specific to the space domain.
• Partner with our design systems team to evolve the underlying platform through your work at the edge.

Skills

Product design

UX design

HCI

Systems thinking

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a mission product designer to own spacecraft mission planning and command & control experiences within the Space organization. You will collaborate with space engineers, product managers, and operators to shape workflows from discovery to delivery, advancing the design direction across programs.

You’ll contribute to design systems evolution, prototype rapidly, and communicate clear decisions to diverse stakeholders.