Product Designer Job at Usul, San Francisco, CA

  • Usul
  • San Francisco, CA

Job Description

Product Designer

Usul is a Silicon Valley AI lab helping America and its allies buy technology at the speed of Amazon Prime. We're Stanford dropouts, MIT AI scientists, and Tier-1 Special Forces Operators dedicating our lives to rebuilding the infrastructure that equips the Western world.

We're the youngest founders to ever win a US Defense contract. Over the past year, we've helped Global 500 companies including RTX, BAE Systems, Palantir, and Ukrainian drone manufacturers win $12B in contracts across 30 NATO nations.

As a Product Designer for Usul, you'll design for our commercial platform, helping the biggest defense companies in the world and frontier startups win government contracts across our allies, as well as for the GUIs and workflows that government operators use daily to acquire technology at high speed. Partnering closely with the Head of Product Design, you'll cross-collaborate with engineers and operational stakeholders to take features from discovery to delivery, while adhering to a consistent, scalable, and intuitive experience across the Usul platform.

We're looking for someone excited to build a new category of product for an audience where Excel is considered "cutting edge." You can work autonomously across multiple domains, from initial research to high-fidelity delivery, and you're able to balance execution speed with deep user empathy. You're user-obsessed, inquisitive, and thrive in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment.

This position is based in San Francisco, CA, 5 days a week in-office.

Travel Required:

  • Occasional travel, roughly 2 to 5 days per month

Who we're looking for:

  • 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
  • Someone who has strong storytelling techniques
  • Willing to travel to customers on site at military bases
  • (Bonus points) Scrappy and frustrated with how the defense industry currently works

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

About the Hiring Process:

  • 15-minute screening with Mehul (Head of Product Design)
  • 15-minute culture fit with Jarren (CEO) and Joon (CTO) and Oliver (CPO)
  • Design technical / portfolio deep dive with Mehul + Oliver
  • On-site at San Francisco/DC
  • Offer!

Job Tags

Full time, Contract work, Work at office

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