Head of Product Design

Shield AI is hiring a Head of Product Design for its Hivemind Enterprise work. The role blends product design, UX leadership, and user research for technical users working on autonomy development, simulation, testing, deployment, and mission operations.

This is a senior design seat in a defense robotics environment where the interfaces have to make complex autonomous systems understandable to engineers, operators, and mission planners.

• Lead customer and user research across product, customer engagement, and solutions teams
• Design end-to-end workflows for autonomy development, simulation, analysis, deployment, and operations
• Turn operational feedback into product requirements and design initiatives
• Create experiences for autonomy engineers, software developers, operators, and mission planners
• Build design practices and team capacity around complex AI and robotics tools

• Senior product design, UX design, human factors, or related experience
• A record of shipping complex technical products, developer tools, platforms, or data-heavy applications
• Experience conducting user research and translating insights into product strategy
• Technical fluency with engineering workflows, constraints, and AI-powered products
• Comfort leading in ambiguous product spaces where interaction patterns are still being invented

Robotics design roles often sit downstream of engineering, but this one is explicitly tied to product discovery and workflow definition. The caveat is the defense context: it is high-consequence work, and the best fit is someone who wants to design tools for autonomy teams and operators rather than consumer-facing software.