Skydio · 1 week ago
Lead Product Designer
San Mateo, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$150K/yr - $210K/yrSkydio is the leading US drone company and the world leader in autonomous flight, focusing on empowering a diverse audience of drone users. The Lead Product Designer will define human interactions with autonomous flying systems, designing tools across web and mobile to enhance efficiency in various sectors including inspection and public safety.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Drone ManagementDronesMachine LearningRobotics
Responsibilities
Lead the design process for core and new functionality for Skydio Cloud and/or Android based Ground Control Stations. These include:
Fleet Management
Inspection & Mapping
Data Visualization
Annotation and Records Tools
Remote Operation
In-Flight Experience
AI Driven Missions
Media Management
Go on-site with customers to deeply understand their needs, use cases and work with Product Managers and Engineers to build incredible new AI based tools that customers love
Lead other designers, engineers and marketers to build out the Skydio Design Language across our cloud and mobile experiences. Discover, design and document new components, modules, visual styles and treatments that will create a toolbox for all designers to build more efficiently and cohesively
Provide mockups, user flows, pixel-perfect designs in Figma, or write HTML/CSS directly to drive the design process for engineers, while communicating design goals to PMs and Executives
Bring your insights and experience to improve production and processes around the design org
Qualification
Required
Proven track record of delivering complex design work to enterprise customers
A portfolio that clearly defines your contributions shipping cloud products, bonus points for specific work in: Fleet Management; Avionics; Photo management; Geospatial Analysis or Mapping; 3D Web Tools; Video Review Workflows; Remote Hardware Sensing (cameras, robotics, aviation)
Solid understanding of design systems that span mobile and web
Strong examples of beautiful data, visualization, 3D, and table layout and visual design
Preferred
Exploring AI-first design and prototyping tools (Cursor, Windsurf, Figma Make, V0)
Working with 3D on the web (WebGL, Cesium, ThreeJS)
Designing for Android and other mobile environments
Getting hands-on with front-end code (HTML/CSS/JS or libraries like Tailwind)
Benefits
Equity in the form of stock options
Comprehensive benefits packages
Relocation assistance
Paid vacation time
Sick leave
Holiday pay
401K savings plan
Company
Skydio
Skydio uses artificial intelligence to create flying drones that are used by consumer, enterprise, and government customers.
Founded in 2014
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
Skydio has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (34)
2024 (21)
2023 (22)
2022 (12)
2021 (16)
2020 (3)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$740MKey Investors
Linse CapitalAndreessen HorowitzN47
2024-11-15Series E· $170M
2023-02-27Series E· $230M
2021-02-28Series D· $170M
Leadership Team
Adam Bry
Co-founder & CEO
Tom Moss
COO (2018-2020), CEO APAC (2020-2024), Chief Corp Dev (2024~)
Recent News
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