ICEYE is a Finnish spacetech company that builds and operates the world's largest SAR (synthetic aperture radar) satellite constellation for persistent Earth observation and intelligence.
ROLE HIGHLIGHTS: - Staff Product Designer - Location: Espoo, Uusimaa, Finland - Department: Product Management - Reports to: VP of Product - Employment type: Permanent - Workplace model: Hybrid (3 days / week in office) - Employment is subject to applicable security screening (incl. SUPO, where required) WHY THIS ROLE MATTERS: As a Staff Product Designer, you will be embedded in ICEYE’s engineering domain responsible for customer-facing systems and interfaces, including APIs and UIs. You will take end-to-end ownership of UX across all products in our domain. Today, that includes four customer-facing web products used by professional users in demanding, real-world environments. This is a senior, high-impact role. You won’t just design interfaces, you will shape what we ship, how it works for customers, and how UX contributes to customer and business outcomes. Working closely with Product Management, Engineering, and customers, you will make thoughtful trade-offs and turn complex problems into usable, valuable solutions. You’ll have the opportunity to define and elevate UX across multiple critical customer products, influence how we build software, and work closely with customers solving meaningful problems. This role offers real ownership, real impact, and the chance to shape how UX, AI, and engineering come together in practice. WHO WE ARE ICEYE delivers space-based intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities to governments and allied nations. This includes sovereign and turnkey ISR missions leveraging ICEYE’s world-leading synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite technology, as well as access to data from the world’s largest SAR satellite constellation. These capabilities enable partners to detect and respond to critical changes anywhere on Earth with unprecedented speed and accuracy, day or night and in any weather, supported by ultra high-resolution imagery and high-frequency revisits. As a trusted partner for defense, intelligence, security, and maritime domain awareness, ICEYE’s near real-time data creates a tactical advantage for mission-critical operations. Designed for dual use, the platform also serves civil protection and commercial users for natural-catastrophe intelligence, insurance, maritime monitoring including oil-spill detection, and finance, contributing to global security and community resilience. ICEYE is headquartered in Finland and operates globally across Europe, North America, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific. We have more than 900 employees, united by a shared vision: improving life on Earth by becoming the global source of truth in Earth Observation. YOUR DAY-TO-DAY RESPONSIBILITIES: - Own the end-to-end UX across multiple web products, ensuring a coherent, high-quality user experience across the domain and alignment with the ICEYE brand - Develop a deep understanding of user needs, workflows, and real-world constraints through customer research, user interviews, and direct customer meetings, including travel when required - Translate business and user needs into clear user journeys, mental models, prototypes, and product direction, creating testable hypotheses and usable solutions that solve real problems - Stay accountable for outcomes, not just design artifacts, by partnering closely with Product Management and Engineering to make pragmatic trade-offs across usability, technical constraints, delivery speed, and long-term maintainability - Apply a hands-on, pragmatic approach to design systems, and use LLMs, modern AI tools, prototyping, and frontend experimentation when they help validate ideas or improve shipped UI - Collaborate across a large, networked organization with designers in other domains, marketing design, sales, and customers to drive alignment and consistency WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR MUST HAVES: - Deep command of design foundations, including layout systems, typography, color, and visual hierarchy, with the ability to apply them in complex product environments - Extensive experience designing complex professional web products and services for real users with real constraints, with expert proficiency in tools such as Figma and openness to integrating AI tools into everyday work - A strong portfolio and proven track record of owning UX end-to-end, from discovery through shipped product to post-launch learning - Confidence in customer research and direct user engagement, including interviews, workshops, and synthesizing insights into clear design direction - Ability to clearly articulate UX decisions, trade-offs, and priorities to product, engineering, and business stakeholders - Practical experience collaborating closely with engineering teams and engaging comfortably in technical discussions - A pragmatic approach to design systems and a clear point of view on how LLMs are shaping product discovery, design, and UI development NICE TO HAVES: - Outcome-driven thinking over perfect artifacts. Design is what ships. - Curiosity about users, latest design and technology trends and history, and better ways of working. - Pragmatic product judgment: knowing when “good and shipped” beats “perfect but late”. - Clear communication and respectful collaboration APPLICATION PROCESS: - Recruiter screen - Hiring Manager Interview - Interviews with Product and Engineering teams - Task - Final interview WORKING AT ICEYE At ICEYE, you’ll join a diverse and highly engaged team united by the ambition to make the impossible possible. As a global scale-up, we combine speed and ambition with the opportunity to take real ownership from day one. Your growth, wellbeing, and success are a priority, with continuous professional development, training opportunities, and a culture where collaboration is how we win. HOW WE WORK (OUR VALUES) Make the impossible possible: We set ambitious goals and stay calm under pressure. We bring grit, optimism, and ownership when