Senior Product Designer - Navigation Systems - Advanced Navigation - Job details

Senior Product Designer - Navigation Systems at Advanced Navigation

Product, Full-Time, Sydney, AU sydney design product full-time

Description

Posted 2 days ago

Advanced Navigation is the world’s most determined innovator in AI robotics and navigation technologies across land, air, sea and space applications. Founded on a culture of research and discovery, Advanced Navigation's mission is to be the catalyst of the autonomy revolution. Fields of expertise include artificial intelligence, underwater sonar, GNSS, radio frequency systems, inertial sensors, robotics, quantum sensors and photonics.
Today, Advanced Navigation is a supplier to some of the world's largest companies, including Airbus, Boeing, Google, Tesla, NASA, Apple, and General Motors. Discover it for yourself: https://youtu.be/F7uAqs1gtuk

Position overview

As our first Senior Product Designer dedicated to the AdNav platform, you will lead the end-to-end design of a unified user experience across our software suite. From developer tools to configuration UIs to analytics dashboards, you'll play a key role in shaping how our users interact with AdNav systems across industries such as defence, autonomy, maritime, and energy. Working alongside product, engineering, and customer teams, you’ll bring clarity to complex workflows and help deliver a consistent, intuitive experience across the entire product family. This is a foundational role, ideal for a designer who wants to take ownership of a new UX system from the ground up and grow a small but impactful design function around them.

Role & responsibilities

Lead the design vision for the AdNav user experience across all software touchpoints (SDKs, configuration tools, analytics interfaces, and dashboards).

Work closely with product managers, engineers, and customers to understand technical requirements and user needs, and translate them into clear interaction models and intuitive designs.

Define and maintain a design system that promotes consistency, scalability, and cross-platform alignment.

Build prototypes to test and validate design decisions early and often with real users.

Partner with engineering to ensure high-quality implementation of designs and provide ongoing design support throughout the development lifecycle.

Drive cross-functional UX discovery workshops, mapping user journeys, personas, and workflows for different customer segments.

Contribute to roadmap planning by identifying UX gaps, usability opportunities, and product cohesion challenges.

Take a leading role in hiring and mentoring future designers as the team grows.

Qualifications & Experience

Degree in interaction design, HCI, UX, or a related field; or equivalent professional experience.

Advanced proficiency in design tools such as Figma, Sketch, or similar

Ability to create wireframes, interactive prototypes, and detailed visual specs

Strong UX research practices and familiarity with usability testing

Solid understanding of responsive design and front-end development constraints

Clear communicator with the ability to explain design decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

5+ years of experience designing user interfaces for technical or enterprise-grade software

Proven experience designing for tools, platforms, or complex B2B applications

Experience in industries such as automotive, aerospace, defence, or industrial software is a strong plus

Previous involvement in building or contributing to a design system

Experience mentoring or leading other designers is desirable

What are some of the benefits you will have access to?

You'll have access to industry-leading products with diverse applications within some of the most interesting and exciting projects worldwide. We’re growing a team of inspired, smart, and driven individuals from all sorts of backgrounds. With great opportunities for growth and variety, we strive to help each employee carve out the path that’s right for them.