Vice President of Design

Company Description

[REDACTED] is the leader in Enterprise Readiness. Our mission is to establish readiness as a real-time condition that is continuously achieved. Today, a dangerous Readiness Gap exists between what the front line needs and what is delivered. Our AI-native platform, [REDACTED], aligns development, production, delivery, and sustainment into one coordinated execution system for government agencies and industrial suppliers. By revealing true capacity, exposing real constraints, coordinating resources, and executing at the speed of operational demands, the front line gets what it needs to succeed.

Job Description

[REDACTED]'s customers run programs where one late part can hold up an entire fleet. Our platform pulls development, production, delivery, and sustainment into one execution system. The design challenge is making that system legible to the people who run it, and deciding with them where AI should act, where it should advise, and where it should stay out of the way.

As VP of Design, reporting to the CPTO, you'll lead product design, research, and design systems as a peer to Product, Engineering, and Data. You'll be in the room when we decide what to build and stay in it through delivery.

This role is a full-time position located out of our office in Arlington, VA / Pittsburgh, PA / San Francisco, CA / Anywhere in the US.

This role may require up to 25% travel.

Scope of Responsibilities

Set vision for the product experience

• Define an experience strategy for the [REDACTED] platform that connects directly to how customers reach readiness, and to how [REDACTED] wins and keeps accounts.
• Establish the principles that guide design decisions across teams, so hundreds of small calls add up to one coherent product.
• Identify the critical workflows across development, production, delivery, and sustainment, and make them measurable at the…