Product Designer

ABOUT BEACON AI

We’re a fast-moving team of aviators, engineers, and operators building an AI platform to make flying safer, more efficient, and more capable. Backed by top investors, we’ve secured a dozen Department of Defense contracts and partnered with major airlines to deliver mission-critical systems. We operate without silos or heavy processes. Small, focused teams own what they build, ship quickly, and learn fast, pushing the boundaries of how humans and AI work together in aviation.

Role Overview
We are looking for a Product Designer who wants their work to matter. At Beacon AI, you will shape how pilots interact with AI in the cockpit, designing experiences where clarity, speed, and precision are not just good design principles, they are safety critical. This is a rare opportunity to define a product from the ground up in one of tech's most consequential domains.

Key Responsibilities

- Own the end-to-end product design process for Beacon AI's pilot assistant, from discovery and user research through wireframes, prototypes, and final specs handed off to engineering

- Conduct research and usability testing with pilots and aviation professionals to deeply understand workflows, mental models, and safety critical needs

- Translate complex AI-driven data and alerts into interfaces that are instantly clear and actionable in high-pressure cockpit environments

- Build and maintain a scalable design system that ensures consistency and speed across the product

- Partner closely with engineering and strong product sense to ship polished, well-considered experiences iteratively

- Contribute to brand and visual identity as a secondary responsibility, supporting marketing and web presence as needed

What Will Make You Successful

- You have strong product design instincts and can move fluidly from research and strategy to high-fidelity execution

- You are fluent in Figma and comfortable owning a design system end to end

- You ask "why" before you a...