Staff UX Designer
Job Location:
San Jose, CA - USA
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Job Summary
Archer is an aerospace company based in San Jose California building an all-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft with a mission to advance the benefits of sustainable air mobility. We are designing manufacturing and operating an all-electric aircraft that can carry four passengers while producing minimal noise.
Our sights are set high and our problems are hard and we believe that diversity in the workplace is what makes us smarter drives better insights and will ultimately lift us all to success. We are dedicated to cultivating an equitable and inclusive environment that embraces our differences and supports and celebrates all of our team members.
Archer is best known for Midnight our electric aircraft. This role isnt on that program. The AI Products Org is building software for the general aviation industry: mobile apps websites and web apps for consumer end users. We havent announced what were working on and were not going to spoil it in a job posting. What we can tell you: its early its greenfield and the design decisions made in the next year will define these products for a long time.
Thats why were hiring a Staff Designer. Not someone to execute a roadmap thats already figured out but someone who can take a loosely defined problem explore it and come back with something worth building.
What Youll Do:
- 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 youll work on doesnt exist yet in any form not even a brief
- Run product explorations sketch out directions pressure-test them with the team kill the weak ones early
- Work with minimal direction. Youll get context and constraints from PM and engineering but the design leadership on your projects is you ship. Then keep refining what shipped based on how people actually use it
- Raise the bar on craft across the org through your own work and through feedback on everyone elses
- 8 years of product design experience minimum. Realistically the person were picturing has 1215
- Products youve designed that are live and in users hands. We will ask about them in detail: what you decided what you got wrong what youd change
- Real 01 experience: youve 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 shouldnt
- Comfort with ambiguity. If you need a fully scoped ticket before you can start this wont 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
- Youve shipped consumer products in a domain with real-world constraints (regulated industries safety-adjacent hardware-adjacent) and know how that shapes design
If you want to hear more about what were building before you apply you cant. Apply and well tell you plenty.
At Archer we aim to attract retain and motivate talent that possess the skills and leadership necessary to grow our business. We drive a pay-for-performance culture and reward performance that supports the Companys business strategy. For this position we are targeting a base pay between $17500.00 - $215000.00 . Actual compensation offered will be determined by factors such as job-related knowledge skills and experience.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
About Company
Archer is designing and developing electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft for use in urban air mobility networks. Archer’s mission is to unlock the skies, freeing everyone to reimagine how they move and spend time. Archer's team is based in Santa Clara, CA.
