Product Designer

The role

You will design for the commercial platform and GUIs and workflows used by government operators. You will partner with the Head of Product Design, engineers, and operational stakeholders to take features from discovery to delivery.

What you will do

• Design with guidance on complex problems
• Develop an understanding of users to inform solutions
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, and Head of Product Design
• Exhibit strong craft and interaction design
• Maintain a high bar of quality for experiences and the design system
• Translate the Usul brand across product experiences
• Create design materials as necessary

Required qualifications

• 2-5 YOE, full-time, experience in Product/UX Design
• Comfortable and well-versed in design tools like Figma, Miro, etc.
• Experience leveraging AI tools like Cursor, Claude Code, Lovable, etc.
• Can translate raw user feedback into product experiences same day
• Willing to rethink from first principles and build a net new category defining product
• Experience with user research + prototyping
• Someone who has strong storytelling techniques
• Willing to travel to customers on site at military bases

Nice to have

• Scrappy and frustrated with how the defense industry currently works

Before you apply

• 15-minute screening with Mehul (Head of Product Design)
• 15-minute culture fit with Jarren (CEO) and Joon (CTO) and Oliver (CPO)
• Design technical / portfolio deep dive with Mehul + Oliver
• On-site at San Francisco/DC

About the company

Usul is a Silicon Valley AI lab helping America and its allies buy technology at the speed of Amazon Prime. They are the youngest founders to ever win a US Defense contract.