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The company is moving quickly to launch the first aircraft designed specifically for swarming, as well as the Command & Control software to mobilize swarms of thousands of heterogeneous autonomous assets and empower human operators to achieve superhuman results.\nThe team has created and exited multiple startups, negotiated defense deals worth billions of dollars, and designed and built 30+ novel aircraft, with aerospace experience from Scaled Composites, Airbus, Archer Aviation, Blue Origin, and Boom Supersonic.\nMission\nTurn clear product direction into exceptional, implementation-ready product experiences.\nThis role exists to dramatically increase the speed at which product ideas become real. You will work directly with the Head of Product to take written product specifications, workflow descriptions, existing product patterns, screenshots, and rough Figma-frame descriptions and turn them into polished, coherent, buildable designs.\nThis is a highly execution-oriented design role. We are looking for someone who can move quickly from concept to detailed UI without requiring constant direction or extensive design ceremonies.\nWhat You’ll Own\nTranslate detailed product specifications into high-quality Figma designs.\n\nDesign workflows for complex command-and-control and operational software.\n\nTake rough frame descriptions and independently determine layout, hierarchy, interaction details, and edge cases.\n\nBuild and maintain reusable Figma components and patterns.\n\nMaintain consistency across the product as new capabilities are introduced.\n\nWork closely with engineering to ensure designs are understood and implementable.\n\nReview implemented functionality and identify discrepancies between design intent and the built product.\n\nHelp evolve the overall UX architecture of Legion as the product expands.\n\nRapidly iterate based on operator, engineering, and customer feedback.\n\nFill in reasonable UX details independently rather than requiring every interaction to be explicitly specified.\n\nWhat Great Looks Like\nYou receive a well-written product spec and a description of the required Figma frames.\nYou understand the intent quickly.\nYou identify the handful of questions that actually matter.\nThen you disappear for a period of focused work and come back with something substantially better than what was described.\nThe resulting Figma should be clear enough that engineering can build from it, polished enough to show a customer, and thoughtful enough that the Head of Product does not need to design every interaction personally.\nThe Person We’re Looking For\nYou are an unusually strong individual contributor.\nYou are fast.\nYou have excellent product judgment and visual judgment.\nYou are comfortable designing dense, information-rich software rather than only simple consumer applications.\nYou enjoy receiving strong product direction and turning it into an excellent finished experience.\nYou are comfortable making decisions independently when requirements do not specify every detail.\nYou can distinguish between a product question that requires escalation and a design detail that you should simply solve.\nYou communicate clearly with engineers and product leaders.\nYou care about craft, but you do not allow perfectionism to slow down execution.\nParticularly Valuable Experience\nExperience with any of the following would be especially valuable:\nCommand-and-control systems\n\nAerospace or defense software\n\nRobotics or autonomous systems\n\nGeospatial interfaces\n\nMission planning software\n\nIndustrial or operational software\n\nGaming interfaces\n\nComplex dashboards\n\nDesign systems\n\nHuman-machine interfaces\n\nSoftware used in time-sensitive or safety-critical environments\n\nWhat This Role Is Not\nThis is not primarily a branding role.\nIt is not primarily a UX research role.\nIt is not a role centered around workshops, design-thinking exercises, or producing large amounts of process documentation.\nThose capabilities can be useful, but the core requirement is simple:\nYou must be exceptionally good at turning product intent into excellent software designs quickly.\nSuccess After 6 Months\nProduct specifications routinely move into Figma without the Head of Product personally designing them.\n\nEngineering receives clearer and more complete designs.\n\nLegion has stronger UX consistency across features.\n\nDesign iteration cycles become significantly faster.\n\nThe Head of Product spends more time on strategy, customers, and product decisions, and less time producing individual screens.\n\nITAR requirement\nTo conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.\nSwarm Aero is an equal opportunity employer. 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