Stealth Startup are hiring a
Founding Product Designer (UI/UX) (UA)
About Us
We are an emerging UAV startup, rapidly expanding to support the Ukrainian national needs with advanced drone technology. As a startup, we operate in a highly flexible environment where agility, adaptability, and a hands-on approach are critical for success.
About the Role
We’re hiring our first Product Designer to own the end-to-end design of the human interfaces for unmanned systems with both physical and digital human interfaces. This is a foundational role with broad scope. You’ll design intuitive, high-quality software interfaces while accounting for the realities of interacting with physical devices. While your long-term scope will span the full product experience, your immediate focus will be on specific initiatives—primarily software interfaces and feature-level design. Over time, as the team grows, this role will evolve toward deeper ownership of specific product areas or systems.
What You’ll Do
End-to-End Product Design
- Own the full design lifecycle: discovery → flows → wireframes → prototypes → high-fidelity UI
- Translate product, technical, and hardware constraints into clear, usable interfaces
- Design for both immediate feature delivery and long-term product coherence
Interface & Interaction Design
- Design and iterate on interfaces and workflows
- Create intuitive interaction models for complex or technical use cases
- Ensure high-quality visual and interaction design across shipped features
Foundational Design Work
- Establish early design systems, patterns, and standards
- Contribute to defining UX principles across physical + digital interactions
- Identify gaps in the end-to-end experience and proactively improve them
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Hardware teams
- Participate in product and system design
- Incorporate user feedback, data, and technical constraints into decisions
What We’re Looking For
Core Experience
- 3–6+ years in product design / UI/UX design
- Experience owning end-to-end design for shipped products
- Strong portfolio demonstrating:
- UX problem-solving and structured thinking
- High-quality UI execution
- Ability to simplify complex workflows
Systems & Constraint Thinking
- Ability to design for stateful systems, not just static screens
- Experience (or strong aptitude) for working with:
- Hardware-integrated products, OR
- Complex, real-world, constraint-heavy systems
- Can clearly articulate trade-offs and design decisions
Execution + Adaptability
- Comfortable operating as a solo / first designer
- Able to balance speed vs quality in ambiguous environments
- Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
Nice to Have
- Experience with hardware-integrated, IoT, or connected products
- Familiarity with designing for unreliable networks or asynchronous systems
- Experience building or scaling design systems
- Strong technical literacy — able to understand engineering constraints (frontend, system behavior, device interactions) and design within them
What Success Looks Like
- You deliver intuitive, production-ready interfaces that work reliably with real-world hardware constraints
- You design experiences that handle edge cases, failures, and system states gracefully
- You establish a coherent UX foundation across software and device interactions
- You enable the team to ship quickly without compromising usability or clarity
What We Value
- Experience designing beyond the “happy path”
- Ability to think in flows, states, and system behavior
- Comfort working on products where UX is tightly coupled with technical constraints
