UX Product Design Lead

What the role actually is

Skydio is hiring a UX Product Design Lead to design the operator experience for autonomous drones used in high-stakes environments. The role is focused on trust, system transparency, remote operations, spatial awareness, and interfaces that help people understand what an autonomous flying robot is doing.

The brief is explicitly not a generic dashboard job. Skydio wants a designer who can operate across product strategy, high-fidelity prototyping, customer fieldwork, and cross-platform experiences spanning web, mobile, and ground control stations.

What you would work on

• Lead UX strategy and execution for autonomous drone platforms and remote operations
• Design interfaces for system transparency, mission confidence, and operator trust
• Prototype complex interactions for remote sensing, 3D spatial awareness, and AI-driven missions
• Visit customer sites to understand field conditions and bring that context back into the design process

What they are asking for

• Lead-level UX or product design experience in complex technical products
• Strong visual craft, systems thinking, and high-fidelity prototyping ability
• Portfolio work in robotics controls, avionics, mapping, fleet management, or remote hardware sensing
• Ability to shape product roadmaps and align engineering, product, and executive stakeholders

Why this one is worth a look

Autonomous drones create a very specific UX problem: the operator has to trust a machine that moves fast, sees differently, and may be acting beyond direct line of sight. This role sits right at that trust boundary. It belongs on the board because it is robotics UX in the field, not abstract product software.