Product Designer (UI/UX)

About Us

We are an international defense company, rapidly expanding to support the Ukrainian national needs with advanced drone technology. We operate in a highly flexible environment where agility, adaptability, and a hands-on approach are critical for success.

About the Role

We’re hiring our first Product Designer to own the end-to-end design of the human interfaces for unmanned systems with both physical and digital human interfaces.

This is a foundational role with broad scope. You’ll design intuitive, high-quality software interfaces while accounting for the realities of interacting with physical devices.

While your long-term scope will span the full product experience, your immediate focus will be on specific initiatives—primarily software interfaces and feature-level design. Over time, as the team grows, this role will evolve toward deeper ownership of specific product areas or systems.

What You’ll Do

End-to-End Product Design

• Own the full design lifecycle: discovery → flows → wireframes → prototypes → high-fidelity UI

• Translate product, technical, and hardware constraints into clear, usable interfaces

• Design for both immediate feature delivery and long-term product coherence

Interface & Interaction Design

• Design and iterate on interfaces and workflows

• Create intuitive interaction models for complex or technical use cases

• Ensure high-quality visual and interaction design across shipped features

User & Field Research

• Spend time in the field and in direct contact with operators to build deep user empathy, observe how systems are actually used, and pressure-test design hypotheses in realworld conditions

• Run discovery, usability testing, and feedback synthesis, and translate findings into design decisions

Foundational Design Work

• Establish early design systems, patterns, and standards

• Contribute to defining UX principles across physical + digital interactions

• Identify gaps in the end-to-end experience and proactively improve them

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Hardware teams

• Participate in product and system design

• Incorporate user feedback, data, and technical constraints into decisions

What We’re Looking For

Core Experience

• 3–6+ years in product design / UI/UX design

• Experience owning end-to-end design for shipped products

• Strong portfolio demonstrating:

  • UX problem-solving and structured thinking

  • High-quality UI execution

  • Ability to simplify complex workflows

Systems & Constraint Thinking

• Ability to design for stateful systems, not just static screens

• Experience (or strong aptitude) for working with:

  • Hardware-integrated products, OR

  • Complex, real-world, constraint-heavy systems

• Can clearly articulate trade-offs and design decisions

Execution + Adaptability

• Comfortable operating as a solo / first designer

• Able to balance speed vs quality in ambiguous environments

• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills

Nice to Have

• Experience with hardware-integrated, IoT, or connected products

• Familiarity with designing for unreliable networks or asynchronous systems

• Experience building or scaling design systems

• Strong technical literacy — able to understand engineering constraints (frontend, system behavior, device interactions) and design within them

What Success Looks Like

• You deliver intuitive, production-ready interfaces that work reliably with real-world hardware constraints

• You design experiences that handle edge cases, failures, and system states gracefully

• You establish a coherent UX foundation across software and device interactions

• You enable the team to ship quickly without compromising usability or clarity

What We Value

• Experience designing beyond the “happy path”

• Ability to think in flows, states, and system behavior

• Comfort working on products where UX is tightly coupled with technical constraints

We Offer

• Full-time position & official employment

• Competitive salary (determined individually based on experience and interview results.)

• Paid vacation and sick leave according to Ukrainian legislation

• Medical insurance

• Hybrid format

• Reservation from mobilization

• Friendly and people-oriented team culture

• Have opportunities to work on an innovative and impactful product