Staff Product Designer
Agtonomy is a South San Francisco, California company that provides AI-driven automation and fleet services for agricultural, turf, and other off-road equipment.
Funding history
About Agtonomy
Founded in 2021, Agtonomy embeds physical-AI and autonomy technology into equipment from OEM partners, enabling operators to plan, monitor, and analyze tasks such as mowing, hauling, and other field work.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You'll shape how people put autonomous machines to work in the real world. You'll own the experience across mobile and tablet apps, web tools for analytics and reporting, and emerging interfaces like voice. You'll define how humans and autonomous systems work together, rebuild the information architecture around how operators work day to day, and bring field insight to the roadmap. You'll partner with the Creative Director, who owns brand and visual design, while you own the user experience. You're encouraged to use AI to explore and prototype faster, while your judgment shapes the final design.
Requirements
- Owned information architecture and user journeys for at least one complex product end to end
- Strong design judgment
- Strong writing skills for specs and rationale; ability to get consistent results from AI tools
- Designed mobile and web as one system, handling spotty connectivity and field edge cases
- Hands-on UX research experience, ideally in the field
- Fluent in current AI design tools
- Worked directly with engineers and shipped patterns in code
- Comfortable with startup pace and ambiguity
Responsibilities
- Own the core workflows of running an autonomous fleet of industrial machines: site setup, planning and dispatching work, supervising and intervening, resolving stops or faults, reviewing outcomes
- Define how people will direct machines next, including voice and agent interaction, and get first steps onto the roadmap
- Shape platform strategy across phone, tablet, and web
- Help decide what to build alongside product owners and the executive team
- Design a unified information architecture, object model, and shared vocabulary for human and machine
- Write interaction guidelines and specs that let engineers and AI tools get it right
- Work with the Creative Director to carry the visual language into the product
- Lead on-site user research with operators across domains and turn insights into design direction
- Provide fast, clear direction on in-flight design questions while protecting time for long-term work
Benefits
- 100% covered medical, dental, and vision for the employee
- Commuter Benefits
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Life Insurance
- Short- and Long-Term Disability
- 401k Plan
- Stock Options
Hiring Process
Five phases: Hiring Manager Interview (video, 45 min); Portfolio Deep Dive with Creative Director (video, 60 min); on-site Panel Interviews with portfolio presentation and product and engineering leaders (45 min each); on-site Final Interviews with CEO, CFO, CTO (30 min each); References and Decision.
