UI Designer

True Anomaly; Long Beach (CA); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity + Benefits

Job summary

True Anomaly is seeking a UI designer to join a growing creative team. This hands-on role focuses on drawing screens, building components, extending the design system, and collaborating with senior designers and the Creative Director. You’ll own the craft of the answer while the team frames the problem.

You will work at the intersection of design and mission, producing interfaces for operators and government-facing products, with a strong emphasis on visual craft and speed.

Qualifications

• Portfolio of interface work with real visual craft; dense screens attract us
• A couple of years designing product UI, with ability to pace with the team
• Experience with UI in desktop environments; defense/space knowledge not required but background welcome
• Proficiency in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite; motion/3D or basic code literacy is a plus

Responsibilities

• Design screens, components, and layouts feeding the engineering teams
• Extend and maintain a scalable UI design framework (components, states, iconography, type, color)
• Produce high-fidelity mockups and working prototypes quickly and iterate
• Bring strong design and artistic vision to differentiate our product

Skills

UI design

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

Motion/3D knowledge

Tools

Prototype tooling

Job description

Long Beach, CA or Denver, CO, or Washington, DC

Space is a warfighting domain. True Anomaly seeks those with the talent and ambition to build the technology that secures it.

OUR MISSION

True Anomaly delivers decisive capabilities for space superiority. We build autonomous spacecraft, advanced payloads, mission software, and space-based interceptors — enabling the U.S. and its Allies to secure the space environment and counter threats from the ultimate high ground.

OUR VALUES

• Be the offset. We create asymmetric advantages with creativity and ingenuity.
• What would it take? We challenge assumptions to deliver ambitious results.
• It’s the people. Our team is our competitive advantage and we are better together.

YOUR MISSION

Creatives like you are essential to this mission — to inspire, define, and build. This is some of the most meaningful workyou’llever do, in an industry devoted to protecting the people you care about.

We’relooking for a UI designer to join a growing creative team at an early and exciting moment for the company. This is a hands‑on visual role — drawing screens, building components, extending our design system, and whatever else the mission demands. Your artistic talent is front and center;you’llwork alongside our senior designers, who will frame the problem while you own the craft of the answer.You’llwork directly with our Creative Directorwho’sbuilding this team for people who care as much about the craft as the mission.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Nobody has defined what mission‑critical space software should look and feel like.There’sno decade‑old design system handed down from a legacy defense contractor to follow. No committee approving yourcomponentlibrary. The interfaces you help build here will set the standard for how a critical industry empowers the people defending it.

This is the level where a lot of designers get stuck resizing banners and tidying slide templates. Not here.You’llbe drawing the product itself — the screens operators use to do serious work — and your work will be seen at the highest levels of government and military. Expect more range, and more responsibility, than the title suggests.

Ifyou’veever wanted your craft to carry real weight — this is that job.

• Help us build our product. Design screens, components, and layouts that feed our engineering teams as they build our software products.We’renot multi‑platform or mobile, our focus is on a desktop environment.
• Extend and maintain our scalable UI design framework — components, states, iconography, type, and color —keep it coherent and able to support future content and features.
• Produce high‑fidelity mockups and working prototypes quickly, then iterate on them faster.
• Bring impeccable design and artistic vision into everything we do, make us stand out

QUALIFICATIONS

• Show us a portfolio of interface work with real visual craft — dense, complicated screens interest us more than landing pages
• A couple of years designing product UI, and the appetite to work at a pace that would surprise most product teams. UX design is not a requirement but knowledge of UX flow and best practices is useful.
• While defense and space knowledge is great, we don’t expect it. Tech, games, design/creative agency and freelance are all good backgrounds for this role
• We work in Figma for UI with Adobe Creative Suite alongside it — comfort with these is essential; motion, 3D, or a little code literacy is a plus
• Leverage your experience to work quickly and efficiently,we’rea lean team, everyone needs to pitch in and move fast
• Take ownership of the work you’re given and see it through to final execution, with the judgement to ask early when something isn’t clear
• Turn your hand to what’s needed, UI will be your primary focus but our company needs people able to wear multiple hats. You’ll need to be comfortable working with multiple disciplines across the company.

COMPENSATION

• Equity + Benefits including Health, Dental, Vision, HRA/HSA options, PTO and paid holidays, 401K, Parental Leave

Your actual level and base salary will be determined on a case‑by‑case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: job‑related knowledge and skills, education, location, and experience.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS

• Work Location—Successful candidates will be located near one of our offices in Long Beach, CA, Denver, CO, or Washington DC. However, for the right candidate we will consider remote.
• Work environment—the work environment; temperature, noise level, inside or outside, or other factors that will affect the person's working conditions while performing the job.
• Physical demands—the physical demands of the job, including bending, sitting, lifting and driving.

This position will be open until it is successfully filled.

To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you 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.

True Anomaly is committed to equal employment opportunity on any basis protected by applicable state and federal laws. If you have a disability or additional need that requires accommodation, please do not hesitate to let us.

Voluntary Self-Identification

For government reporting purposes, we ask candidates to respond to the below self‑identification survey. Completion of the form is entirely voluntary. Whatever your decision, it will not be considered in the hiringprocess or thereafter. Any information that you do provide will be recorded and maintained in aconfidential file.

As set forth in True Anomaly’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy,we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.

If you believe you belong to any of the categories of protected veterans listed below, please indicate by making the appropriate selection. As a government contractor subject to the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA), we request this information in order to measurethe effectiveness of the outreach and positive recruitment efforts we undertake pursuant to VEVRAA. Classification of protected categoriesis as follows:

A "disabled veteran" is one of the following: a veteran of the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service who is entitled to compensation (or who but for the receipt of military retired pay would be entitled to compensation) under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; or a person who was discharged or released from active duty because of a service‑connected disability.

A "recently separated veteran" means any veteran during the three‑year period beginning on the date of such veteran's discharge or release from active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval, or air service.

An "active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran" means a veteran who served on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service during a war, or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized under the laws administered by the Department of Defense.

An "Armed forces service medal veteran" means a veteran who, while serving on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service, participated in a United States military operation for which an Armed Forces service medal was awarded pursuant to Executive Order 12985.

Voluntary Self-Identification of Disability

Why are you being asked to complete this form?

We are a federal contractor or subcontractor. The law requires us to provide equal employment opportunity to qualified people with disabilities. We have a goal of having at least 7% of our workers as people with disabilities. The law says we must measure our progress towards this goal. To do this, we must ask applicants and employees if they have a disability or have ever had one. People can become disabled, so we need to ask this question at least every five years.

Completing this form is voluntary, and we hope that you will choose to do so. Your answer is confidential. No one who makes hiring decisions will see it. Your decision to complete the form and your answer will not harm you in any way. If you want to learn more about the law or this form, visit the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) website at www.dol.gov/ofccp .

How do you know if you have a disability?

A disability is a condition that substantially limits one or more of your “major life activities.” If you have or have ever had such a condition, you are a person with a disability. Disabilities include, but are not limited to:

• Alcohol or other substance use disorder (not currently using drugs illegally)
• Autoimmune disorder, for example, lupus, fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, HIV/AIDS
• Blind or low vision
• Cancer (past or present)
• Cardiovascular or heart disease
• Celiac disease
• Cerebral palsy
• Deaf or serious difficulty hearing
• Diabetes
• Disfigurement, for example, disfigurement caused by burns, wounds, accidents, or congenital disorders
• Epilepsy or other seizure disorder
• Gastrointestinal disorders, for example, Crohn's Disease, irritable bowel syndrome
• Intellectual or developmental disability
• Mental health conditions, for example, depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorder, schizophrenia, PTSD
• Missing limbs or partially missing limbs
• Mobility impairment, benefiting from the use of a wheelchair, scooter, walker, leg brace(s) and/or other supports
• Nervous system condition, for example, migraine headaches, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis (MS)
• Neurodivergence, for example, attention‑deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder, dyslexia, dyspraxia, other learning disabilities
• Partial or complete paralysis (any cause)
• Pulmonary or respiratory conditions, for example, tuberculosis, asthma, emphysema
• Short stature (dwarfism)
• Traumatic brain injury

Disability Status Select...

PUBLIC BURDEN STATEMENT: According to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 no persons are required to respond to a collection of information unless such collection displays a valid OMB control number. This survey should take about 5 minutes to complete.