About the Role
Design for Usul's commercial platform, assisting major defense companies and startups in winning government contracts. Create GUIs and workflows for government operators to rapidly acquire technology. Collaborate with engineers and operational stakeholders from feature discovery to delivery, ensuring a consistent and intuitive user experience across the platform. Build a new product category for an audience unfamiliar with modern digital tools, balancing execution speed with user empathy.
Responsibilities
- Design with guidance on complex problems, considering long-term impact with polish within a defined Usul product area.
- Develop an understanding of our users, informing solutions throughout the design process.
- Collaborate with other engineers, designers, Head of Product Design, and others.
- Exhibit strong craft and interaction design, maintaining a high bar of quality for experiences and our design system.
- Translate the Usul brand across product experiences.
- Create design materials as necessary.
Requirements
- 2-5 YOE, full-time, experience in Product/UX Design
- Comfortable and well-versed in design tools like Figma, Miro, etc.
- Experience leveraging AI tools like Cursor, Claude Code, Lovable, etc.
- Can translate raw user feedback into product experiences same day
- Willing to rethink from first principles and build a net new category defining product
- Experience with user research + prototyping
- Strong storytelling techniques
- Willing to travel to customers on site at military bases
- Scrappy and frustrated with how the defense industry currently works (Bonus points)
Skills
- Product/UX Design
- Figma
- Miro
- AI tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Lovable)
- User research
- Prototyping
- Storytelling
Location
- San Francisco, CA
Work Type
- Full-time
- In-office
- Occasional travel
Experience Level
- 2-5 YOE
About the Company
- Usul is a Silicon Valley AI lab helping America and its allies buy technology at the speed of Amazon Prime.
- Founded by Stanford dropouts and MIT AI scientists, with expertise from Tier-1 Special Forces Operators.
- The youngest founders to ever win a US Defense contract.
- Have helped Global 500 companies including RTX, BAE Systems, Palantir, and Ukrainian drone manufacturers win $12B in contracts across 30 NATO nations.
