Swarm Aero is redefining air power, building the largest swarming UAV and the most versatile swarming aircraft network in the world. 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.
The 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.
Turn clear product direction into exceptional, implementation-ready product experiences.
This 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.
This 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.
You receive a well-written product spec and a description of the required Figma frames.
You understand the intent quickly.
You identify the handful of questions that actually matter.
Then you disappear for a period of focused work and come back with something substantially better than what was described.
The 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.
You are an unusually strong individual contributor.
You are fast.
You have excellent product judgment and visual judgment.
You are comfortable designing dense, information-rich software rather than only simple consumer applications.
You enjoy receiving strong product direction and turning it into an excellent finished experience.
You are comfortable making decisions independently when requirements do not specify every detail.
You can distinguish between a product question that requires escalation and a design detail that you should simply solve.
You communicate clearly with engineers and product leaders.
You care about craft, but you do not allow perfectionism to slow down execution.
Experience with any of the following would be especially valuable:
This is not primarily a branding role.
It is not primarily a UX research role.
It is not a role centered around workshops, design-thinking exercises, or producing large amounts of process documentation.
Those capabilities can be useful, but the core requirement is simple:
You must be exceptionally good at turning product intent into excellent software designs quickly.
To 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.
Swarm Aero is an equal opportunity employer. We value diverse backgrounds and experiences and make employment decisions without regard to race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, or disability.
Building the largest UAV swarm on the planet.
