Product Concept Designer - Defense

A World-Changing Company

Palantir builds the world’s leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. By bringing the right data to the people who need it, our platforms empower our partners to develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions, locate missing children, and more.

The Role

We're looking for a multidisciplinary Concept Designer to join our Product Design team and be the visual storyteller for our latest defense product concepts. You will be responsible for rapidly producing mockups/imagery, short videos, and interactive prototypes that bring ideas, both nascent and developed, to life. This role lives at the nexus of product development, product marketing, and business development. Your output will be critical for sharing concepts with audiences internal and external to Palantir.

The mandate is broad: in this role, you'll create everything from user interface (UI) mockups for a customer meeting, to diagrams that explain our technology, to videos that debut a new product at a conference. Ideal candidates are master visual designers and also have UI/UX intuition and experience. You thrive on taking complex concepts and distilling them into straightforward, crisp stories.

A note about the distinction between Communications, Product, and Concept Design roles at Palantir:

•  Communications Designers are responsible for upholding Palantir's brand standards. They are the visual storytellers for branding, marketing, presentations, and events.

•  Product Designers define, design, and assist in building new user interfaces across our core platforms: Gotham, Foundry, Apollo, and AIP. They collaborate with Forward Deployed Engineers to gain context about end users and their unique workflows.

•  Concept Designers are on the bleeding edge of new product. They imagine what new offerings could look like, whether additions to the core platforms, or something tailored to a potential customer.

Core Responsibilities

• Making conceptual narratives, often with quick turnaround. Often this role will be responsible for taking requirements for a software product and delivering a high-level concept of a user interface.
• This role will help bring to life the vision of what a product could be, with clear creative direction and the ability to produce assets across multiple channels and mediums, including: Software interface mockups; Digital illustrations, diagrams, architecture visuals; Abstract graphics; Website; 2D/3D animations; Short videos / sizzle reels
• Contribute to development of product launch (GTM) materials.
• Contribute to development of visualization techniques and styles.
• Collaborate with business, engineering, product marketing, and product divisions.

What We Value

• Generalist skillset, with a strong design background encompassing graphic design and UI/UX design. Experience with typography, layout, illustration, motion design/animation is also important.
• Excellent communication skills, including a proven ability to build great relationships, convey and debate design rationale, and iterate quickly with a multifaceted group of stakeholders.
• Strong attention to detail and comfort evaluating a diverse array of artifacts to ensure they're in line with brand standards.

What We Require

• A multimedia portfolio demonstrating at least one software interface design project. If parts of your portfolio are password-protected,please include your portfolio passwordunder 'Additional Information' when applying.
• Proficiency in the Adobe Creative Suite, and comfort with switching mediums and learning new programs.
• Experience using Figma software.
• Experience with video editing.
• Eligibility and willingness to obtain a US Security clearance or have an active US Security clearance.
• Ideal candidates have 2+ years of experience.
• Ideal candidates have some experience in 3D modeling and 2D/3D animation.

Salary

The estimated salary range for this position is estimated to be $105,000 - $175,000/year. Total compensation for this position may also include Restricted Stock units, sign-on bonus, and other potential future incentives. Further note that total compensation for this position will be determined by each individual’s relevant qualifications, work experience, skills, and other factors. This estimate excludes the value of any potential sign-on bonus; the value of any benefits offered; and the potential future value of any long-term incentives.

Our benefits aim to promote health and wellbeing across all areas of Palantirians’ lives. We work to continuously improve our offerings and listen to our community as we design and update them. The list below details our available benefits and some of the perks that can be enjoyed as an employee of Palantir Technologies.

Benefits

•  Employees (and their eligible dependents) can enroll in medical, dental, and vision insurance as well as voluntary life insurance

•  Employees are automatically covered by Palantir’s basic life, AD&D and disability insurance

•  Commuter benefits

•  Relocation assistance

•  Take what you need paid time off, not accrual based

•  2 weeks paid time off built into the end of each year (subject to team and business needs)

•  10 paid holidays throughout the calendar year

•  Supportive leave of absence program including time off for military service and medical events

•  Paid leave for new parents and subsidized back-up care for all parents

•  Fertility and family building benefits including but not limited to adoption, surrogacy, and preservation

•  Stipend to help with expenses that come with a new child

•  Employees can enroll in Palantir’s 401k plan

Life at Palantir

We want every Palantirian to achieve their best outcomes, that’s why we celebrate individuals’ strengths, skills, and interests, from your first interview to your longterm growth, rather than rely on traditional career ladders. Paying attention to the needs of our community enables us to optimize our opportunities to grow and helps ensure many pathways to success at Palantir. Promoting health and well-being across all areas of Palantirians’ lives is just one of the ways we’re investing in our community. Learn more at Life at Palantir and note that our offerings may vary by region.

In keeping consistent with Palantir’s values and culture, we believe employees are “better together” and in-person work affords the opportunity for more creative outcomes. Therefore, we encourage employees to work from our offices to foster connectivity and innovation. Many teams do offer hybrid options (WFH a day or two a week), allowing our employees to strike the right trade-off for their personal productivity. Based on business need, there are a few roles that allow for “Remote” work on an exceptional basis. If you are applying for one of these roles, you must work from the state in which you are employed. If the posting is specified as Onsite, you are required to work from an office.

If you want to empower the world's most important institutions, you belong here. Palantir values excellence regardless of background. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer for all, including but not limited to Veterans and those with disabilities. Palantir is committed to making the application and hiring process accessible to everyone and will provide a reasonable accommodation for those living with a disability. If you need an accommodation for the application or hiring process_,_ please reach out and let us know how we can help.