Founding Product Designer (UI/UX) (UA)
About The Position
We are an emerging UAV startup, rapidly expanding to support the Ukrainian national needs with advanced drone technology. As a startup, we operate in a highly flexible environment where agility, adaptability, and a hands-on approach are critical for success. We’re hiring our first Product Designer to own the end-to-end design of the human interfaces for unmanned systems with both physical and digital human interfaces. This is a foundational role with broad scope. You’ll design intuitive, high-quality software interfaces while accounting for the realities of interacting with physical devices. While your long-term scope will span the full product experience, your immediate focus will be on specific initiatives—primarily software interfaces and feature-level design. Over time, as the team grows, this role will evolve toward deeper ownership of specific product areas or systems.
Requirements
- 3–6+ years in product design / UI/UX design
- Experience owning end-to-end design for shipped products
- Strong portfolio demonstrating: UX problem-solving and structured thinking, High-quality UI execution, Ability to simplify complex workflows
- Ability to design for stateful systems, not just static screens
- Experience (or strong aptitude) for working with: Hardware-integrated products, OR Complex, real-world, constraint-heavy systems
- Can clearly articulate trade-offs and design decisions
- Comfortable operating as a solo / first designer
- Able to balance speed vs quality in ambiguous environments
- Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
Nice To Haves
- Experience with hardware-integrated, IoT, or connected products
- Familiarity with designing for unreliable networks or asynchronous systems
- Experience building or scaling design systems
- Strong technical literacy — able to understand engineering constraints (frontend, system behavior, device interactions) and design within them
Responsibilities
- Own the full design lifecycle: discovery → flows → wireframes → prototypes → high-fidelity UI
- Translate product, technical, and hardware constraints into clear, usable interfaces
- Design for both immediate feature delivery and long-term product coherence
- Design and iterate on interfaces and workflows
- Create intuitive interaction models for complex or technical use cases
- Ensure high-quality visual and interaction design across shipped features
- Establish early design systems, patterns, and standards
- Contribute to defining UX principles across physical + digital interactions
- Identify gaps in the end-to-end experience and proactively improve them
- Partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Hardware teams
- Participate in product and system design
- Incorporate user feedback, data, and technical constraints into decisions
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
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