Mid UI​/UX Designer; Remote first

Design products that have a real world impact

Sky Bound is growing quickly, and we’re looking for a UX/UI Designer to join our team and help shape the next generation of products behind our autonomous drone operations.

This is a great opportunity for a designer who enjoys working across the full design process, from understanding a problem and shaping user journeys through to creating polished interfaces and seeing their work brought to life.

While UX/UI will be at the heart of the role, we’re looking for someone with a broad design mindset. You’ll have the opportunity to work across digital product design, visual design, data visualisation, graphics and, where useful, 3D, giving you plenty of variety in your day to day work.

You’ll be joining a growing team where design is still evolving, meaning your ideas, approach and attention to detail can have a genuine influence on the products we build.

Sky Bound delivers automated drone operations for critical national infrastructure, providing real time aerial intelligence to support safety, security and faster decision making.

We combine software, AI and remote operations, with systems managed from our Southampton based 24/7 control centre and deployed across the UK in some of the most complex airspaces.

We’re at an exciting stage of our growth. The business has moved from building the foundations to delivering at scale, with major customer projects underway and ambitious plans for the future of autonomous operations.

Our products bring together complex technology, real time information and operational workflows. Good design plays an important role in making all of that simple, intuitive and useful for the people who rely on it.

You’ll work closely with Product, Engineering, AI and Operations to turn complex problems into simple, intuitive experiences.

• Designing user experiences across our software platform
• Creating user journeys, wireframes, prototypes and high fidelity designs
• Understanding user needs and translating them into practical product solutions
• Designing clear experiences for complex workflows and operational environments
• Working closely with developers to ensure designs are implemented effectively
• Contributing to and developing our design system
• Using feedback and user insight to continually improve the product

• Creating clean, considered and consistent interfaces
• Applying strong principles of typography, layout, hierarchy and visual communication
• Designing dashboards and information rich interfaces
• Helping develop the visual language of our digital products
• Creating supporting graphics and visual assets where required

The role has scope to go beyond traditional UX/UI work.

Depending on your interests and experience, you may also get involved in:

• Data visualisation and communicating complex information clearly
• Presentations, graphics and customer facing materials
• Print and physical design
• Visualising drones, hardware and environments
• 3D design and modelling
• Exploring animation or motion design

We’re not expecting you to be an expert in all of these areas. UX/UI will be the core of the role, but we value designers who are curious, have a broad skill set and enjoy learning new things.

We’re interested in how designers are using AI to improve the way they work.

That could mean using AI for research, ideation, prototyping, generating concepts, exploring different approaches or speeding up parts of your workflow.

You don’t need to be an AI expert. What matters is that you’re curious about new technology and open to finding better ways of working.

Experience with AI assisted design tools or generative AI would be a bonus.