Senior Product Designer

In Costa Mesa, California, this onsite Senior Product Designer role invites you to shape end-to-end user experiences across platform, internal R&D, or vertical product investments within a high stakes defense technology context. You will collaborate across engineering, product management, and stakeholders while mentoring peers, balancing immediate experiments with a long-term vision. The position offers a salary range of USD 154,000 to 231,000 per year and requires at least five years of product design experience.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end experience for platform, internal R&D, or vertical product investments, balancing near-term experiments with long-term strategic vision.
• Shape how design integrates with engineering and product management through close collaboration, iterative prototyping, and hands-on implementation guidance.
• Define high-impact product experiences from problem discovery to setting experience requirements, crafting workflows, and delivering high-fidelity designs.
• Engage end users and run collaborative workshops with stakeholders to align on user needs, generate ideas, and define concepts or experiments.
• Ensure work is easy to follow through strong narrative skills, journey maps, user workflows, high fidelity mockups, and rigorous documentation.
• Mentor peers, contribute to design critiques, champion knowledge sharing, and model productive cross-functional collaboration.
• Partner with the design systems team to evolve the underlying platform through design work at the edge.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in product design, UX, or HCI with a track record of delivering high-craft, technically informed solutions.
• Deep expertise in visual and interaction design with the ability to craft elegant solutions for complex workflows.
• Systems thinking mindset, capable of mapping workflows across multiple user types and contexts.
• Strong prototyping skills to drive clarity in decision-making.
• Ability to communicate the rationale behind design decisions and navigate diverse stakeholder requirements across engineering, product, and business teams.
• Portfolio demonstrating meticulous craft and interaction details.
• No prior defense experience required; we welcome designers from varied backgrounds to tackle hard problems.

Technologies

• Lattice OS

Benefits

• Equity grants
• Top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including health, recovery, and future offerings

About the Team

The centralized Software Product Design & Research team acts as the connective tissue across Anduril's ecosystem of software experiences, ensuring that products and workflows scale thoughtfully across platforms, mission types, and domains. As a Product Designer, you will own the full lifecycle of design, partnering with cross-functional teams through discovery, ideation, validation, and delivery. You will collaborate with a team of designers and researchers while developing a deep understanding of the product landscape.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading user research sessions including customer discovery, usability testing, and synthesis of complex feedback loops.
• Facilitation skills to lead workshops, guide cross-functional alignment, and strategic decision-making.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity with a proactive approach to problem solving in mission-critical, time-sensitive environments.
• Familiarity with designing for constrained or high-stakes environments (industrial, aerospace, or defense systems).
• Demonstrated leadership in scaling design operations, mentorship, and improving team efficiency.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance.

Protecting Yourself from Recruitment Scams

• No Financial Requests: Anduril will not solicit payment or personal financial details during the hiring process.
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