What You’ll Do
The Senior Product Designer is a strategic individual contributor responsible for shaping end-to-end user experiences across Slingshot’s portfolio. This role blends product thinking, systems design, and deep user empathy to craft elegant solutions for complex domains like aerospace data, AI decision tools, and 3D operational environments.
Senior Designers at Slingshot are expected to lead high-impact initiatives, influence cross-functional strategy, and elevate the quality of both design and product outcomes. We’re looking for designers who bring strong UX craft, creative leadership, and a bias toward action—balancing user needs with business and technical constraints.
Slingshot Aerospace cares deeply about our commitment to company values, mission, and purpose. The core competencies we will be looking to identify include: intellectual agility, ability to develop innovative solutions, leadership, performance-orientation, and industry expertise.
Responsibilities
Strategy & Product Impact
- Drive the design vision for your product area(s), connecting long-term user needs with near-term execution plans.
- Collaborate closely with product and engineering leads to shape roadmaps, clarify goals, and define success metrics.
- Translate abstract, ambiguous challenges into clear design problems and informed recommendations.
End-to-End Design Execution
- Own the full design lifecycle—from discovery and wireframes to detailed interaction specs and production-ready assets.
- Craft innovative experiences that balance usability, technical feasibility, and domain-specific complexity (e.g., spatial, data-rich, or mission-critical environments).
- Lead and contribute to complex feature and system-level design initiatives, ensuring cohesion and scalability across the platform.
Research & Validation
- Conduct and integrate research, testing, and data insights into every phase of the design process.
- Partner with UX researchers, engineers, and domain experts to ground decisions in evidence and real-world behavior.
- Communicate insights through storytelling, frameworks, and documentation that foster empathy and alignment.
Design Systems & Craft
- Contribute to the evolution of Slingshot’s design system, UI patterns, and visual standards across platforms and teams.
- Apply a strong understanding of hierarchy, typography, motion, and layout to create intuitive and expressive interfaces.
- Maintain a high bar for craft, consistency, and accessibility.
Cross-functional Collaboration & Influence
- Collaborate fluidly with engineering, product, program, growth, sales, and marketing teams to align on vision and execution.
- Serve as a thought partner to product managers and technical leads; influence trade-offs and strategic choices.
- Champion a user-centered approach across the company, advocating for design best practices and systemic thinking.
Pre-Requisites
- Must have a US Government Security Clearance, preference given for active TS Clearance.
Minimum Requirements
- 6+ years of professional product design experience, including leadership of complex, multi-stakeholder projects.
- Track record of delivering high-impact, user-centered solutions in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.
- Bachelor’s degree in a design-related field (e.g., HCI, Visual Design, Interaction Design), or equivalent practical experience.
- U.S. citizenship and has an active U.S. Government Security Clearance (preference for active TS/SCI).
- Preferred SkillsFluency with design tools (Figma, Lucid Charts, Adobe CC) and prototyping methods across fidelity levels.
- Experience with systems design, modular interfaces, and information-dense products.
- Domain experience in aerospace, geospatial tech, 3D visualization, or real-time decision tools is a plus.
- Strong interaction and visual design skills with a portfolio demonstrating shipped work that balances creativity, usability, and business value.
- Adept at communicating trade-offs, surfacing risks, and influencing cross-functional decisions.
- Ability to create frameworks, playbooks, and tools that elevate design quality across the team.
- Comfortable leading design critiques, mentoring peers, and contributing to design culture and operational excellence.
*These skills are guidelines, not hard and fast rules. You don’t have to meet every qualification listed- if your skills are transferable and you meet the minimum requirements, we encourage you to apply.
Location: Remote, United States
Classification: Full-Time Exempt (professional exemption)
Compensation Range: 145,000 – 165,000 (RD5)
Security Clearance: Active U.S. Government Security Clearance (TS/SCI)
US-based Candidates: we are currently only able to hire residents of the following U.S. states: AZ, CA, CO, DC, FL, GA, HI, IL, IN, KS, MD, MA, MI, MN, MO, MT, NV, NJ, NM, NY, NC, OR, RI, TN, TX, UT, VT, VA, WA, WV, and WI. We are unable to consider candidates residing in other U.S. states at this time.
Internationally-based Candidates: we are currently only able to hire residents of the following locations: United Kingdom. We are unable to consider candidates residing in other countries at this time.
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion are key to our success. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and our employees are people with different strengths, experiences, and backgrounds, who share a passion for creating a safer, more connected world. Diversity not only includes race and gender identity, but also national origin, citizenship, sex, color, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic that is part of one’s identity. All of our employees’ points of view are key to our success, and we embrace individuality.
