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UX Product Designer

Skydio· R&D
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Hybrid (San Mateo, California, United States)$150k - $200k + equityFull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

UX Product Designer at Skydio developing cross-platform interfaces (Web, Mobile, Ground Control Stations) to enable trust and efficient operation of autonomous flying robots, bridging complex AI/hardware systems with intuitive operator workflows.

Responsibilities

  • Design for Trust: Own the UX execution for key features on our core platforms (including remote operations). You will build interfaces for autonomous flying robots that make the operator trust the job will get done, ensuring every interaction reinforces confidence, reliability, and system transparency.
  • Solve Unsolved Problems: Tackle complex challenges where there is no existing playbook. You will think pragmatically and creatively to design interfaces for remote hardware sensing, 3D spatial awareness, and AI-driven missions.
  • Communicate & Defend Rationale: Effectively communicate user needs and frame complex problems. You will present your design solutions clearly, defending your rationale with user data and system logic to align with Engineering and Product Management.
  • Elevate the Craft: Bring an uncompromising attention to detail and craftsmanship to the team. You will build high-fidelity prototypes to test assumptions quickly, leveraging AI tools as a seamless part of your daily process to move faster and explore wider.
  • Learn from the Field: Participate in on-site visits with our customers to deeply understand their chaotic, high-stress environments. Bring that "ground truth" back to the studio to inform your design decisions.

Qualifications

  • 3-6 years of hands-on UX/UI product design experience, including translating product requirements into clear design concepts and specifications that Engineering has built and shipped.
  • First-Principles Problem Solver: Ability to operate in ambiguous spaces with no existing patterns, using research, prototyping, and user studies to iterate.
  • Uncompromising Craftsmanship: Portfolio demonstrating high visual design quality and attention to detail.
  • Comfortable with Complexity: Experience designing for technical tools used in real world; portfolios with mapping/navigation, IoT/hardware interfaces, or complex multi-step workflows.
  • AI Fluency & Boundary-Blurring: Experience integrating AI into workflow and prototyping to accelerate design and user testing.
  • Prototyping Chops: Ability to quickly mock up interactive prototypes before coding.

Skills

Required:UX/UI designPrototyping
Nice to have:User research

Benefits

  • Paid vacation time
  • Sick leave
  • Holiday pay
  • 401K savings plan
  • Group health insurance
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Skydio

A family of flying robots.

AI-powered autonomous drones for Drone as First Responder (DFR), critical infrastructure inspection, tactical ISR, site security, surveying and mapping

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