Vice President of Design

Arlington, Virginia, United States; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States; Remote; San Francisco, California, United States. Posted a month ago

The role

You will lead product design, research, and design systems as a peer to Product, Engineering, and Data. You will set the product experience vision and build a design organization that handles AI-native development processes.

What you will do

Set vision for the product experience
Define an experience strategy for the Air platform
Establish principles that guide design decisions across teams
Identify critical workflows across development, production, delivery, and sustainment
Map how work, data, and decisions move across a customer's enterprise
Work with Engineering and Data leadership on platform architecture
Set patterns for human–AI collaboration in agentic workflows
Build a design system and interaction language
Bring customers, domain experts, and internal teams into the design process
Build a research practice and lead alignment across departments

Required qualifications

U.S. Citizenship is required
10+ years in product design
5+ years leading design organizations
Track record of design shaping product strategy and business outcomes in complex enterprise, analytics, or AI-native software
Systems thinking at the scale of a business
Experience leading co-creation with domain experts and executives in technical domains
Hands-on fluency with AI, including designing for agentic or model-driven products
Deep grounding in research and HCI
Experience in high-growth environments

Nice to have

Current possession of a U.S. security clearance, or the ability to obtain one with our sponsorship
Experience designing for defense, government, or public sector
Background in supply chain, logistics, manufacturing, or industrial operations

About the company

Air is the leader in Enterprise Readiness. Their AI-native platform aligns development, production, delivery, and sustainment for government agencies and industrial suppliers.