Director of Industrial Design, True Anomaly
$205-320k
+ Equity
More information about location
Space material manufacturer
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Space material manufacturer
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$205-320k
+ Equity
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To enable a secure, stable, and sustainable space environment for the US, its allies, and partners.
Role
Who you are
- We hire for talent and potential, not pedigree
- Show us a portfolio of hardware you led or shaped, with a clear account of what you decided and why
- Demonstrate experience leading designers, from hiring to mentoring
- Fluency with engineering constraint. You’ll be working with people solving structural, thermal, and other problems, you need to be credible with them
- Consumer, automotive, aerospace, robotics, medical, and industrial equipment backgrounds all fit. Defense and space knowledge is great, we don’t expect it
- An active security clearance is a bonus, not a requirement
- If you like this role but your skills or experience don’t quite fit… well apply anyway, or look at our other hardware design role and see if that’s a better match: SENIOR/STAFF INDUSTRIAL DESIGNER
What the job involves
- Leaders like you are essential to this mission – to inspire, define, and build. This is some of the most meaningful work you’ll ever do, in an industry devoted to protecting the people you care about
- We’re looking for an inspirational creative leader to found our industrial product design function and build the team around it. With a well-established and growing software design team we’re now turning our attention to our critical hardware needs
- You’ll sit alongside the engineers designing and building spacecraft and space-based interceptors, bringing your design aesthetics to the toughest hardware problems around, designed to operate flawlessly in the most challenging domain
- You’ll report directly to our Creative Director who’s building this function for people who care as much about the craft as the mission
- There’s no established playbook for how space security hardware should look. Most on-orbit hardware looks the way it does because function dictated every element. We believe building a product compelling design language can play a huge part in making our hardware express its function and perform better
- The programs that invest here gain a measurable advantage: in recruiting, in customer confidence, and in the engineering discipline that visible craft quietly enforces
- This is a founding seat. You’ll define what industrial design means here, set the standard, hire the team, and do it while the hardware is still early enough for it to matter. Your work will be inspected at the highest levels of government and military with some of it making it to orbit
- If you’ve ever wanted your craft to carry real weight, this is that job
- Design leadership for hardware:
- Establish industrial design at True Anomaly: the function, the standard, and the working relationship with hardware engineering
- Own the design language of our hardware products through your team and your personal work, You’ll champion great design across the company by demonstrating its value and advocating to our exec and engineering teams
- Hire and lead a high-performing team of industrial and product designers
- Look to the future by visualizing visually stunning new concepts, designed to start conversations and inspire. Push us out of our comfort zone and challenge the art of the possible
- Bring design into engineering and architecture decisions early, working with product engineering leadership early to influence and build great design into our hardware from the beginning
- Leverage your experience to work quickly and efficiently, we’re a lean team, everyone needs to pitch in and move fast. You’ll be building a team, and until that team exists, you’ll be doing the work yourself
- Take ownership of design programs and see them through concept to final execution
Application process
- This position will be open until it is successfully filled
Our take
True Anomaly is a space tech startup composed of former military operators and engineers. The Colorado-based company is focused on building spacecraft and software solutions designed to secure U.S. commercial and military interests in space. It has already developed a fully-integrated platform with seamless satellite, navigation, and data-capture technologies that provide security and training for the quickly evolving space market.
Founded in 2022, True Anomaly has already designed its first spacecraft, the Jackal Autonomous Orbital Vehicle, which can be used to train operators on the ground or as intelligence-gathering tools against adversarial spacecraft. Alongside this, the startup has built a 35,000-square-foot facility in Denver to manufacture the Jackals.
With impressive capital gained in 2023 and 2025, the company validated the Jackal's technical and operational capabilities and made the necessary investments to scale production. And with its most recent capital injection, the company is ready to fund space missions and further scale its operations.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
296% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Apr 2026
$600m
SERIES D
Apr 2025
$130m
SERIES C
Total funding: $871.7m
Company benefits
- 100% Employer-Sponsored Healthcare: We’ve got you covered! Our comprehensive healthcare package is fully sponsored, ensuring you and your loved ones stay healthy and worry-free, so you can focus on shaping the future of space security.
- Generous Time Off: We believe in working hard and recharging fully. Our generous vacation policy gives you the flexibility to take the time you need to relax, explore, and come back energized to take on new challenges.
- Equity: Own an equity stake in True Anomaly as you build something transformative. With equity options, you’re not just working for True Anomaly; you’re an owner. As an essential part of our growth and future success, we want you to share in the upside potential!
- 401k and Roth 401k options: Plan for tomorrow with our 401K and Roth 401K options that put you in control of your financial future.
- Learning & Development Opportunities: Your growth fuels our innovation. We’re committed to providing you with the resources and training to expand your skills, spark new ideas, and advance your career with us.
Company HQ
Downtown, Colorado Springs, CO
Leadership
Even Rogers
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously served as an Officer in the USAF, where they led interdisciplinary teams of space operators, scientists, and engineers to develop and evaluate the operational performance of military systems and tactics designed to protects U.S and allied assets.
Kyle Zakrzewski
(Co-Founder & Chief Engineering Officer)Previously served as the Orbital Warfare Chief of Training for the USAF. Other roles served at the USAF include, Maintenance Flight Commander, Officer In Charge of Protected SATCOM Operations, and Cyberspace Operations Officer.
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