VP of Design — AI-Driven Enterprise Platform

Archer; Arlington (VA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Air is seeking a Vice President of Design to lead product design, research, and design systems, reporting to the CPTO. You will shape the design strategy, guide cross‑functional teams, and stay involved from concept through delivery to ensure product outcomes align with readiness goals.

You will collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Data leadership to set architecture patterns, establish design principles, and build a scalable design organization that operates in an AI-native, enterprise

Qualifications

• 10+ years in product design, including 5+ years leading design organizations, ideally as the senior design leader reporting to a C-level executive.
• A track record of design shaping product strategy and business outcomes in complex enterprise, analytics, or AI-native software.
• Systems thinking at the scale of a business, such as platform strategy, multi-product unification, service design, or workflows that span organizations.
• Experience leading co-creation with domain experts and executives in technical domains you didn't start out knowing, and turning that work into a shipped product.
• Hands‑on fluency with AI, including designing for agentic or model‑driven products and understanding how they fail.
• Deep grounding in research and HCI.
• Experience in high‑growth environments where you built structure without slowing the team down.

Responsibilities

• Set vision for the product experience.
• Define an experience strategy for the Air platform that connects directly to how customers reach readiness, and to how Air wins and keeps accounts.
• Establish the principles that guide design decisions across teams, so hundreds of small calls add up to one coherent product.
• Identify the critical workflows across development, production, delivery, and sustainment, and make them measurable at the leadership level.
• Map how work, data, and decisions actually move across a customer's enterprise and supply base. Use that map to shape product architecture and roadmap priorities.
• Work with Engineering and Data leadership on platform architecture so the product shows real constraints, opportunities, and solutions.
• Set the patterns for human–AI collaboration in agentic workflows. That means deciding what the system does on its own, what it recommends, what a person must approve, and how people know when to trust it.
• Build a design system and interaction language that scales across products, and that teams adopt because it makes them faster.
• Recruit and develop a team spanning product design, research, design systems, and AI interaction design.
• Lead the design function's shift into an AI-native development process: prototyping in code, working directly with models, and shortening the path from idea to something users can react to.
• Create career paths and a culture of craft, collaboration, and candor.

Skills

Product design leadership

Enterprise AI experience

Systems thinking

Co-creation with executives

AI-native design

Research & HCI

High-growth environments

Education

U.S. Citizenship

Job description

Air is seeking a Vice President of Design to lead product design, research, and design systems, reporting to the CPTO. You will shape the design strategy, guide cross‑functional teams, and stay involved from concept through delivery to ensure product outcomes align with readiness goals.

You will collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Data leadership to set architecture patterns, establish design principles, and build a scalable design organization that operates in an AI-native, enterprise