Design Manager
Listed on 2026-01-02
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Design & Architecture
Product Designer
Overview
Who we are: Fuse builds innovative communications, networking, and computing solutions that improve the sharing of information, video, text, and voice among operators distributed throughout the airborne, maritime, and ground environments. We are a technology firm creating in-house software, network and hardware solutions that support our noble cause of advancing warfighter capabilities with elegant, user-focused communications, networks, and software systems.
About this role: As the Design Manager, you will own and mature the Design Language across products and programs. Leading a team of UX and Industrial designers, your ability to define, implement, and maintain a design system across the company as a whole will have a direct impact to our overall success. You will collaborate with leadership, strategy, marketing, domain experts, and engineers to provide value to the experience.
Responsibilities- Drive an end-to-end intuitive user experience across mediums (Web, Mobile, Industrial Design) and disciplines, with a focus on minimizing cognitive overhead of complex concepts
- Discover and define interaction designs and UI patterns through engagement activities with our warfighter community
- Lead a UI/UX team to define and deliver interaction design flows, scenarios, and structural layouts for both digital and physical product interactions
- Lead an Industrial Design team to inform the manufactured design of our physical products
- Partner with program management, hardware engineers, and industrial engineers to deliver thoughtful solutions for our tangible product lines
- Bring a multidisciplinary point of view of product design to the conversation, bringing creativity and diversity of thought from a design point of view
- Ability to self-motivate and consistently deliver results in a rapidly delivering and fast-moving organization
- 8+ years of experience driving design for an organization
- Experience in prototyping and turning prototypes into shipped products
- Experience with Design Thinking processes and user-focused design principles
- 2+ years of experience in modern UI design software, such as Figma, Sketch, Principal, or Adobe
- Must have a portfolio or repository indicating interaction and visual design skills with the ability to design quality graphical user interfaces
- Experience in shipping and designing a web or mobile applications
- Experience with visual authoring tools used by software developers, mechanical, electrical, industrial, and system engineers
- Ability to self-motivate and consistently deliver results in a rapidly delivering and fast-moving organization
- A firm grasp of the concept of servant leadership. Positive attitude and optimistic outlook
- US Citizen
- Willingness and Ability to obtain US Secret Clearance. We can answer any questions regarding this process and walk you through the steps when obtaining it
- Your own unique talents! If you meet some requirements of this position but not 100% of the qualifications outlined above, tell us why you’d be a great fit for this role based on your specific characteristics that align with our values and goals
Must be a nimble self-starter who is excited about technology and can think out of the box and suggest powerful new ideas.
Nice to have- Current understanding of technology such as web, mobile, and know the constraints, be willing to push the limits and apply creative solutions that result in great user experiences
- A comfortable command of visual authoring tools used by software developers, mechanical, electrical, industrial or system engineers such as Visual Studio, Solidworks, or others
- Experience with industrial design and shipping physical products
- Familiarity with networking, network monitoring and networked systems
- Experience with physical products for use in rugged environments (aircraft, vehicles, off-grid, camping, etc)
- Experience with networked Linux systems is a plus
- Experience working alongside an agile software development team, including use of project management software and integration with scrum, agile etc
- Prior entrepreneurial experience is a plus
Founded in 2010, Fuse is a veteran-owned, rapidly growing small business. Our San Diego-based…
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