Staff UI UX Designer

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate regularly with engineers, designers, product managers, and key stakeholders to deeply understand requirements, manage expectations, and conduct design reviews at least weekly to hand off finished designs ready for development, and perhaps more importantly, present unfinished work in progress to receive early commentary across the team.
• Translate complex requirements and concepts into intuitive user flows with polished, on-brand interfaces working within and contributing towards our design system, across all platforms necessary, including cross functional landing pages used across engineering and manufacturing disciplines to shop floor operators for data inputs and execution of tasks and works instruction, to ensure consistency across products and features while enabling tighter iteration cycles and faster implementation time for Engineering.
• Create wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity design specs to support rapid engineering iteration and validation through proof-of-concept demos.
• Collaborate with Product Managers to refine PRD’s, shaping product strategy, conduct user research and define usability testing targets to validate designs and incorporate feedback. Stay updated on manufacturing industry trends, user needs, and share these learnings with the team to inform and justify design decisions.
• Partner with Front-end Developers to proactively express design intention, understand technical limitations, and ensure seamless implementation of designs maintaining quality and functionality. Ensure visual UI quality and UX accuracy is being met across all browsers and devices as necessary.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a senior or staff-level Designer role, with a well-rounded “Digital product design” portfolio with result-driven case studies.
• Proven track record designing SaaS products and complex technical interfaces, ideally for enterprise customers.
• Proficiency in design tools (e.g., Figma, Adobe, Claude Code, Claude Design, etc.) and producing high fidelity, on-device prototypes.
• Experience collaborating with engineering teams, particularly in AI or data-driven environments.
• Strong understanding of user research, interaction design, and information architecture.
• Familiarity with AI products and technologies and manufacturing industry or enterprise SaaS, and ability to work with enterprise systems like Siemens’ Opcenter, SAP, Mendix, etc. which have established systems design and constraints.
• Bachelor’s degree in Product Design, HCI, or related field (or equivalent experience).

Key Competencies

• Ability to simplify complex functionalities into user-friendly designs.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent communication skills to articulate design decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders, taking feedback into immediate consideration with zero-ego.
• Proactive, adaptable, comfortable and cooperative in working in a fast-paced, iterative and dynamic product environment.
• Passion for mentoring and fostering a collaborative team culture.

Why Join Us?

• Truly make a world impact with a leading company in the emerging UAM industry.
• Collaborate with a talented, mission-driven team in a dynamic environment.
• Work on cutting-edge products transforming the future of aviation.

Pay & Benefits

Base pay range: $170,000 - $215,000. Actual compensation offered will be determined by job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Schedule

Full-time

Benefits

Health insurance, retirement plan, paid time off, professional development opportunities, and more.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to job applicants with physical or mental disabilities, and those with sincerely held religious beliefs. Applicants who may require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process should provide their name and contact information to Archer’s People Team at people@archer.com. Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis.

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