Senior Product Designer

FieldAI • Irvine, CA

21h • Onsite

About The Position

FieldAI's Irvine team focuses on embodied AI, real robots, sensors, and field deployments, building risk-aware, reliable, field-ready AI systems to solve complex robotics problems. The company combines rigorous engineering with learning systems for globally deployed solutions. They are seeking a Senior Product Designer to establish the design voice for their product, creating a polished customer interactive experience for a new technology category. This role involves bringing strategic design thinking, a strong visual identity, and aesthetic sensibility to define the look, feel, and design language of the FieldAI platform. The designer will also shape how customers operate robots and extract valuable insights, focusing on building a cohesive, intuitive experience for human-robot collaboration at scale.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in systems design with a strong portfolio demonstrating visual craft and shipped digital products (complex platforms, interactive tools, or multi-layered applications preferred)
• Proven experience building and maintaining design systems from the ground up "," including component libraries, style guides, design tokens, and usage documentation
• An understanding of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) "," whether through academic study, professional experience, or deep personal curiosity, you appreciate the unique challenges of designing for systems where humans and robots collaborate
• Expertise in Figma as your primary design tool
• Strong data visualization skills "," the ability to make complex information clear, useful, and beautiful
• Systems thinking "," you can craft a single interaction and understand how it fits into a broader platform and design language
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills "," you can articulate design decisions, give and receive feedback gracefully, and collaborate across disciplines

Nice To Haves

• Experience designing for robotics, autonomous systems, IoT, or other hardware-software products
• Background in platform-level UX where information architecture, navigation patterns, and scalability are as important as any individual screen
• Familiarity with real-time data interfaces, mapping, or geospatial UX
• Experience designing for multi-site or multi-environment use cases
• Comfort with prototyping interactions and micro-animations
• Track record of establishing design culture and evangelizing design system adoption across engineering teams

Responsibilities

• Define and own the visual identity and design language across our customer interactive experience "," establishing the aesthetic standard that makes every surface of the product feel premium, intentional, and cohesive
• Create and maintain a comprehensive design system, including design policies and primitives, visual style guide, design tokens, and documented interaction patterns that scale across the platform.
• Bring an intuitive sense to how users work with robots across a variety of sites, environments, and use cases "," translating complex robotic operations into clear, elegant industrial workflows
• Design data products that communicate value "," helping users not just see the rich data our systems generate, but understand what it means and act on it with confidence
• Own design ops end-to-end: establish governance, versioning, and contribution processes for the design system to ensure consistency as the product and team grow
• Collaborate closely with product, marketing, and engineering, teams to bring designs from concept to production "," ensuring what ships matches the vision
• Champion the user through research, feedback, and advocacy "," whether they're field operators, site managers, or enterprise decision-makers

What This Job Offers

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