Staff UX Designer

About the role

Archer is building software for the general aviation industry: mobile apps, websites, and web apps for consumer end users. This role is in the AI Products Org, a roughly 100-person software team inside a company of aerospace engineers. The products are early, greenfield, and the design decisions made in the next year will define them for a long time. We're hiring a Staff Designer to take loosely defined problems, explore them, and return with something worth building—not to execute a pre-defined roadmap.

Responsibilities

• Own product design for consumer end-user software end to end: mobile apps, websites, and web applications
• Take products from 0 to 1; some of what you'll work on doesn't exist yet in any form, not even a brief
• Run product explorations—sketch out directions, pressure-test them with the team, and kill the weak ones early
• Work with minimal direction; you'll receive context and constraints from PM and engineering, but design leadership on your projects is yours
• Ship products, then keep refining them based on how people actually use them
• Raise the bar on craft across the org, through your own work and through feedback on everyone else's

Requirements

• 8+ years of product design experience minimum (realistically, the ideal candidate has 12–15)
• Products you've designed that are live and in users' hands; we will ask about them in detail: what you decided, what you got wrong, what you'd change
• Real 0→1 experience: you've built the first version of something, not just iterated on a mature product
• Strong systems thinking across mobile and web; you know when a pattern should be shared across platforms and when it shouldn't
• Comfort with ambiguity; if you need a fully scoped ticket before you can start, this won't be a fit
• A portfolio that shows your thinking, not just polished final screens

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience designing for aviation, or an interest in general aviation (pilots and aviation nerds, this is your moment)
• Experience working alongside AI/ML teams, or designing products with AI-driven features
• Shipped consumer products in a domain with real-world constraints (regulated industries, safety-adjacent, hardware-adjacent) and know how that shapes design

Pay

For this position, we are targeting a base pay between $175,000.00 - $215,000.00. Actual compensation offered will be determined by factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.