Manager, Forward Deployed UX Designer

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🏄 California, Pennsylvania, +1 more states – Remote

🏄 California – Remote 🔔 Pennsylvania – Remote ⚔️ Virginia – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🎨 Product Designer (UI/UX)

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📋 Description

• Lead a newly created team of Forward Deployed UX Designers • Embed directly with customers to understand their missions and how they evaluate continuous readiness • Co-create solutions and validate design decisions at depots, factories, program offices, and operational settings • Turn customer understanding into product direction and innovative AI-native solutions • Scale systems enabling forward-deployed teams to innovate at the edge and integrate work into the core platform • Own discovery end-to-end across multiple critical deployments, from framing questions to delivering insights that direct product delivery • Own deployment experiences and connect them to customer readiness and account outcomes • Refine principles guiding design decisions and create a coherent product experience • Identify and measure critical workflows and provide synthesis that enriches the core platform • Collaborate with forward-deployed engineering and data partners • Define and test human–AI collaboration patterns in agentic workflows • Contribute to a scalable design system and interaction language • Lead designers at customer sites through field observation and evaluative testing • Align forward-deployed, go-to-market, and core platform roles when priorities compete • Recruit, mentor, and develop forward-deployed UX designers • Promote AI-native ways of working, including prototyping in code and working directly with models • Contribute to a culture of craft, collaboration, and candor

🎯 Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship is required • 6+ years in product design • 1+ year leading or mentoring designers, as a manager or lead • Track record of design shaping product and business outcomes in complex enterprise, analytics, or AI-native software • Systems thinking across products and workflows, such as service design, multi-product consistency, or workflows spanning organizations • Experience co-creating with domain experts and stakeholders in technical domains and turning that work into a shipped product • Hands-on fluency with AI, including designing for agentic or model-driven products and understanding how they fail • Deep grounding in research and HCI • Experience in high-growth environments where you built structure without slowing the team down • Current possession of a U.S. security clearance, or ability to obtain one with sponsorship (desired) • Experience designing for defense, government, or public sector (desired) • Background in supply chain, logistics, manufacturing, or industrial operations (desired)

🏖️ Benefits

• Up to 50% travel to customer sites, operational settings, and partner locations • Security clearance sponsorship available for eligible candidates

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