Why we exist:
Swarmer develops software that makes drones autonomous and allows them to operate together, in large, coordinated teams—no pilots needed. Our technology has been battle-tested in Ukraine—the world’s most intense proving ground for drone warfare.
In March 2026, we became the first Ukrainian defense startup to go public on NASDAQ, following a $15M Series A—the largest investment in a Ukrainian defense tech company since the start of the war.
Working at Swarmer means operating at the intersection of engineering rigor and frontline reality. The problems and environments are complex, and the stakes are very real. We built this software to enable democratic nations to defend themselves.
If you are motivated by building resilient systems that matter and by seeing the direct impact of your work, you’ll find purpose here.
Who we’re looking for:
We are looking for a hands-on AI-Native Product Design Lead to own and evolve the user experience of Swarmer’s command-and-control products. Our interfaces help people plan, simulate, monitor, and execute complex missions involving multiple autonomous systems.
The challenge is not to make screens look clear. The interface is not a dashboard — it is a command surface. Decisions are made in seconds, sometimes by an operator who is tired, working in degraded conditions, and has had a few hours of training. A wrong information architecture here is not a usability defect. It is a mission failure.
You will work across the full product cycle: understanding operators and their environment, structuring workflows, defining interaction patterns, testing concepts, creating high-fidelity designs, and turning the strongest ideas into working interfaces with AI-assisted development tools.
This is a hands-on design leadership role. You will set design direction and standards, build the design system and the working practices, and personally design and build critical parts of the product. To be clear about what “lead” means here: you are the design authority and, for now, the only designer. You establish the function.
What you’ll do:
Own the end-to-end product experience across mission planning, simulation, mission execution, real-time monitoring, and post-mission review.
Turn complex operational and technical requirements into clear information architecture, workflows, interaction models, and interface states.
Create conceptual sketches, user flows, wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, and working interfaces, using tools ranging from Figma to AI-assisted coding environments. Running prototypes, not static specs, are the primary deliverable.
Apply usability principles to high-stakes workflows, including error prevention, situational awareness, cognitive load, alerting, degraded connectivity, recovery, and operator control over autonomous behavior.
Plan and conduct user research with operators, customers, and internal field teams; synthesize qualitative feedback and quantitative product data into actionable decisions. Build personas, journey maps, and workflow models where they help the team decide, not as artifacts for their own sake.
Define, maintain, and continuously improve scalable design patterns, UX standards, component libraries, and design-review processes.
Use generative AI to accelerate research synthesis, ideation, prototyping, implementation, documentation, and evaluation—and help the wider team adopt effective prompting and output-evaluation practices.
Identify opportunities where generative AI can improve the product itself, internal workflows, or the customer experience, and turn promising ideas into testable concepts.
Work closely with product, engineering, autonomy, integration, QA, and field teams to incorporate the capabilities and constraints of the technology stack from the beginning.
Balance immediate field, demo, and customer needs against long-term platform consistency, ensuring short-term solutions do not fragment the core product.
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