Staff UI UX Designer

<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.</span></p></div><p>We are seeking a highly skilled Staff Product Designer to join Archer’s Design Studio in support of our in-house Product Development team, to design digital interfaces, internal facing desktop tools. You will play a pivotal role in designing innovative features and products critical for our manufacturing and aircraft assembly efforts. Your work will shape intuitive, impactful, and scalable user experiences that align with our mission to build the future of advanced aviation. </p> <p>You will work closely with a variety of stakeholders on our Business Systems team to design and develop interfaces that improve our manufacturing assembly line. The successful candidate will be passionate about creating intuitive solutions that will deliver our desired brand experience. They will collaborate proactively with other designers, engineers, and product users, gathering qualitative and quantitative data to make informed, human-centric design decisions. They should be proficient at converting requirements into practical product features that reduce confusion, increase engagement, and deliver delightful experiences.</p> <p>The top priority is to keep the state of designs ready for development at least a sprint ahead of front-end engineers, when possible, and supporting them through phases of implementation (from “MVP” and beyond) to ensure ease and accuracy of development, as well as address unforeseen edge-cases that may arise.</p> <p><strong>KEY RESPONSIBILITIES</strong></p> <ul> <li>Collaborate regularly with engineers, designers, product managers, and key stakeholders to deeply understand requirements, manage expectations, and conduct design reviews at least weekly to hand off finished designs ready for development, and perhaps more importantly, present unfinished work in progress to receive early commentary across the team.</li> <li>Translate complex requirements and concepts into intuitive user flows with polished, on-brand interfaces working within and contributing towards our design syst