# User Experience Designer: Hardware Systems at Zipline

- Company: Zipline
- What the company does: Zipline delivers food, groceries, and medicine in minutes with fast, reliable, zero emission delivery. Backed by Sequoia and Techstars.
- Company website: https://flyzipline.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: South San Francisco, California, USA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $153K to $210K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-30
- Apply by: 2026-12-14
- Apply: https://www.zipline.com/open-roles/8086520003?gh_jid=8086520003&utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/zipline-user-experience-designer-hardware-systems/

## About the role

The New Products team is seeking a User Experience Designer to research and shape how people interact with Zipline’s precision delivery system, Platform 2. This cross-disciplinary role sits at the intersection of industrial design, software, operations, and service design. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Design end-to-end user experiences across physical and digital touchpoints, including aircraft, pods, docks, loading workflows, partner infrastructure, operator tools, and customer-facing moments
- Translate complex system behavior into clear interaction models, user journeys, service flows, and product requirements
- Partner with Engineers and Industrial Designers to define physical interactions, affordances, feedback, status communication, and error recovery
- Work with Digital Product teams to ensure consistency between physical systems behavior and software interfaces
- Conduct field research with operators, partners, customers, technicians, and internal teams to understand real-world workflows and pain points
- Identify design opportunities across system hardware, software, service, and operations

Tags: Product

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/zipline-user-experience-designer-hardware-systems/