# Head of Product Design (R5776) at Shield AI

- Company: Shield AI
- What the company does: Autonomy for the world. Backed by a16z.
- Company website: https://shield.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: San Diego, California
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $230K to $420K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-26
- Apply by: 2026-11-10
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/shieldai/7e0dd494-765b-49f5-bdd2-bbf6f2131ca7
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/shield-ai-head-of-product-design-r5776/

## About the role

The Head of Product Design will define and lead the user experience vision for Hivemind, Shield AI’s autonomy development platform. This role is responsible for transforming complex autonomy, robotics, AI, and developer workflows into intuitive experiences that enable engineers, operators, and organizations to develop and deploy resilient autonomy at scale.

## What they're looking for

- Design end-to-end workflows across autonomy development, simulation, testing, analysis, deployment, and operations
- Create intuitive experiences for highly technical users including autonomy engineers, software developers, operators, and mission planners
- Simplify complex system architectures, data flows, infrastructure tooling, and AI workflows into understandable user experiences
- Own the end-to-end experience of the product including training, documentation, tutorials, and overall workflows – help our users get the most of the product
- 10+ years of experience in Product Design, UX Design, Human Factors, or related fields
- Proven track record designing and shipping complex technical products, developer tools, platforms, infrastructure software, data-dense applications, or enterprise systems

Tags: Design