Senior Product Designer

Watney • San Francisco, CA

12d

About The Position

Watney builds and deploys autonomous robotic systems to increase the speed and capacity of critical infrastructure buildout, starting with data centers. Product designers shape how people interact with its robots and the systems behind them, designing across software and physical interactions. This includes teleoperation controls, data exploration tools, and applications for coordinating work across a fleet.

The Senior Product Designer will work closely with engineers and operators to understand complex workflows and make them intuitive, considering what people need to see, understand, and control and carrying those decisions through to interface details. The role supports a deployed fleet that is expected to scale to thousands of robots next year.

Requirements

• Experience designing tools that make complex systems easier to understand and work with; relevant examples include developer tools, CAD, creative software, and hardware interfaces.
• Curiosity about unfamiliar technical domains and the ability to learn enough to question how things should work.
• Careful thinking about interaction, information hierarchy, and feedback, with attention to interface details.
• Enjoy working closely with engineers and designing for technical users.

Nice To Haves

• Ability to build prototypes in code.

Responsibilities

• Work with teleoperators, field operators, and engineers to identify shortcomings in their tools and rethink how those tools could work.
• Design interfaces for teleoperation, data exploration, annotation, and fleet coordination.
• Build and test prototypes with the people who use the tools, including data annotators, robotics researchers, and fleet managers.
• Work with engineers to ship designs and refine them based on field use.

What This Job Offers

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