Product Designer

Jeppesen ForeFlight Careers • Austin, TX

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About The Position

Jeppesen ForeFlight builds industry-leading aviation software used by pilots, aircraft operators, and major airlines worldwide. As a high-growth, private equity-backed company, we are focused on scaling our operations, strengthening our financial infrastructure, and driving operational excellence across the business. Our team combines deep domain expertise with a collaborative, high-performance culture to solve complex challenges and support continued growth. Jeppesen ForeFlight is seeking a well-established Product Designer to join our General Aviation design team and help shape the future of the ForeFlight experience for pilots worldwide. This role is ideal for a designer who enjoys solving complex workflow challenges, crafting intuitive mobile and web experiences, and designing products that pilots rely on in high-focus operational environments. You’ll work closely with product managers, engineers, researchers, and senior designers to improve critical workflows across flight planning, navigation, weather, charts, aircraft management, and in-flight decision-making. If you are a thoughtful and collaborative designer with strong interaction design fundamentals, attention to detail, and a growing ability to navigate ambiguity. You’re comfortable contributing throughout the product development lifecycle, from early concepts and workflows through polished production-ready designs, while balancing customer needs, technical constraints, and business goals.

Requirements

• Strong communication and collaboration skills across product, engineering, and design teams
• 2-4 years of experience designing digital products across mobile and/or web platforms
• Portfolio demonstrating strong interaction design, systems thinking, and polished visual execution
• Experience contributing to end-to-end product design projects from concept through implementation
• Strong understanding of user-centered design principles and interaction design best practices
• Ability to simplify complex workflows and information-rich experiences
• Experience creating wireframes, prototypes, workflows, and high-fidelity UI designs
• Comfort working in evolving product spaces with guidance and collaboration from senior teammates
• Familiarity with usability testing, customer feedback, and iterative design processes
• Experience using Figma and modern prototyping/design tools

Nice To Haves

• Experience designing workflow-heavy, operational, or data-rich applications
• Experience designing data visualization, operational dashboards, or geospatial/mapping interfaces
• Exposure to AI-assisted design or development workflows using tools like Claude Code or Codex
• Passion for aviation or experience as a pilot, student pilot, or aviation enthusiast

Responsibilities

• Design user-centered experiences across ForeFlight’s General Aviation products on iOS, iPadOS, and web platforms
• Contribute to features and workflows that support pilots before, during, and after flight
• Collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, researchers, and senior designers throughout the design process
• Participate in discovery work to better understand pilot workflows, operational challenges, and customer needs
• Translate complex aviation workflows, operational data, and regulatory considerations into intuitive and approachable user experiences
• Create wireframes, workflows, prototypes, and polished UI designs with strong attention to usability, accessibility, and craft
• Explore multiple concepts and iterate quickly based on feedback, research, and product direction
• Support user validation activities including interviewing, usability testing, concept testing, and customer feedback sessions
• Help design for operational clarity, edge cases, and user trust in high-context aviation environments
• Partner with engineering to ensure high-quality implementation and smooth delivery to production
• Contribute to design systems, interaction patterns, documentation, and team best practices
• Participate actively in design critiques, workshops, and cross-functional collaboration sessions
• Use modern design and prototyping tools including Figma and AI-assisted workflows where appropriate

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer-paid health premiums
• Open PTO Policy
• 401(k) with up to 10% company matching and immediate vesting
• 12 Weeks New Parent Leave
• Flight Training Rewards

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed