Staff Product Designer

Vantor Puerto Rico • Westminster, CO

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About The Position

Vantor is forging the new frontier of spatial intelligence, helping decision makers and operators navigate what’s happening now and shape what’s coming next. Vantor is a place for problem solvers, changemakers, and go-getters—where people are working together to help our customers see the world differently, and in doing so, be seen differently. Come be part of a mission, not just a job, where you can: Shape your own future, build the next big thing, and change the world. To be eligible for this position, you must be a U.S. Person, defined as a U.S. citizen, permanent resident, Asylee, or Refugee. Export Control/ITAR: Certain roles may be subject to U.S. export control laws, requiring U.S. person status as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3). Please review the job details below.

Requirements

• Deep experience designing complex enterprise, technical, operational, or mission-critical products
• Proven ability to define systems, not just deliver screens or workflows
• Strong product thinking and ability to influence roadmap, strategy, and prioritization
• Comfortable working in ambiguity and creating structure where none exists
• Strong facilitation skills, including leading workshops and aligning senior stakeholders
• Experience working closely with engineering teams on complex technical systems
• Strong portfolio evidence of cross-product impact, reusable frameworks, and system-level design thinking
• Ability to communicate design rationale clearly to executive, product, engineering, and design audiences
• Strong judgment around output quality, tradeoffs, risks, and decision-making under complexity
• 5+ years of experience in product design, UX, or HCI
• Deep expertise in visual design preferred

Nice To Haves

• Geospatial platforms, mapping tools, satellite imagery, defense tech, autonomy, operational systems, or intelligence products
• Data visualization, analytics, AI-supported workflows, 3D/spatial interfaces, or command-and-control systems
• Experience at companies building complex technical platforms such as Anduril, Palantir, UP42, or similar
• Experience building or scaling design systems and cross-product interaction patterns
• Experience mentoring senior designers or acting as a design lead across multiple teams

Responsibilities

• Own ambiguous, high-impact problem spaces across Vantor’s product ecosystem
• Define cross-product design frameworks, patterns, and experiences for spatial, data-heavy, and operational workflows
• Shape interaction models for maps, imagery, layers, tasking, monitoring, analytics, and platform experiences
• Partner deeply with Product and Engineering to define product direction, not just execute against requirements
• Lead alignment across multiple teams and resolve ambiguity through structured design thinking
• Establish reusable patterns and standards that improve clarity, consistency, and correctness across products
• Raise the quality bar for design outputs, critique, documentation, and implementation readiness
• Mentor senior designers and help them move from execution to system-level ownership
• Use AI-enabled design practices to accelerate exploration, synthesis, prototyping, and decision-making while maintaining strong design judgment

Benefits

• Competitive total rewards package
• Robust 401(k) with company match
• Mental health resources
• Student loan repayment assistance
• Adoption reimbursement
• Pet insurance
• Incentive eligible with a target based on contribution, company performance, and/or individual results achieved

What This Job Offers

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