--- title: 'Director, Industrial Design at True Anomaly' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/director-industrial-design-true-anomaly-long-beach-ca-or-denver-co-or-h67w6j23hdkf' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-09' --- # Director, Industrial Design at True Anomaly - **Company:** True Anomaly - **Location:** Long Beach CA OR Denver CO OR Washington Dc, OR - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-08-27 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/trueanomalyinc/jobs/5219644007 ## Job description Space is a warfighting domain. True Anomaly seeks those with the talent and ambition to build the technology that secures it. ## OUR MISSION True Anomaly delivers decisive capabilities for space superiority. We build autonomous spacecraft, advanced payloads, mission software, and space-based interceptors — enabling the U.S. and its Allies to secure the space environment and counter threats from the ultimate high ground. ## OUR VALUES - Be the offset. We create asymmetric advantages with creativity and ingenuity. - What would it take? We challenge assumptions to deliver ambitious results. - It’s the people. Our team is our competitive advantage and we are better together. ## YOUR MISSION 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. ## WHY THIS ROLE 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. ## RESPONSIBILITIES — 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. QUALIFICATIONS - 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. ## WHAT WE EXPECT - 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 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 ## COMPENSATION - Base Salary: $205,000 - $320,000 - Equity + Benefits including Health, Dental, Vision, HRA/HSA options, PTO and paid holidays, 401K, Parental Leave Your actual level and base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: job-related knowledge and skills, education, and experience ## ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS - Work Location—Successful candidates will be located near Long Beach, CA or Denver, CO. However, we would consider remote within the US for the right candidate. - Work environment—the work environment; temperature, noise level, inside or outside, or other factors that will affect the person's working conditions while performing the job. - Physical demands—the physical demands of the job, including bending, sitting, lifting and driving. This position will be open until it is successfully filled. To submit your application, please follow the directions below. #LI-Remote To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. True Anomaly is committed to equal employment opportunity on any basis protected by applicable state and federal laws. If you have a disability or additional need that requires accommodation, please do not hesitate to let us. ## About True Anomaly ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: True Anomaly is a defense technology company exclusively focused on designing and building spacecraft, software, and payloads for space superiority in contested orbital environments. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series D – $650M fundraise announced in Q2 2026) - **Headquarters**: Centennial, Colorado, USA (with offices in Long Beach, CA; Colorado Springs, CO; and Washington, D.C.) - **Founded**: 2022 - **Founders**: Even Rogers (CEO and Co-Founder) and an undisclosed co-founder (Chief Engineer) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Defense & Space (space defense / space superiority) - **Target customers**: U.S. Department of Defense, allies, and partners (B2G / government) - **Mission statement**: “Enable a secure, stable, and sustainable space environment for the US, its Allies, and partners.” ## Products & Services - **Jackal**: A multirole space superiority platform described as a “tactical fighter-interceptor for contested space environments.” Modular hardware architecture with high-thrust, high-delta‑V performance; designed for high-rate manufacturability and maximum operational flexibility. - **Mosaic**: A full-stack software platform for autonomous mission command and control. Translates commander intent into autonomous actions, enabling real‑time maneuver, sensor tasking, and multi‑domain coordination. Supports “train like you fight” by using the same interface for simulation and live operations. - **Payloads**: Proprietary sensors and effectors hosted on Jackal’s mission hardpoints, tailored for precision sensing and effects in space. ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: Total funding raised – **$1.027B** (Series A $17M, Series B $100M, Series C $260M, Series D $650M) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly available from provided sources - **Growth Signals**: - Headcount target of 1,000+ employees by 2028 - Multiple successful orbital missions (Mission X‑1, X‑2, X‑3; VICTUS HAZE) - Opened new Denver HQ (May 2025) and expanded GravityWorks facilities in Centennial, CO and Long Beach, CA - Rapid development timeline – first two Jackal spacecraft fielded within a year of founding ## Competitive Advantages - **Exclusive focus on space defense**: True Anomaly is the only defense tech company dedicated solely to space superiority, giving it a clear mission and undiluted R&D resources. - **Effect‑driven autonomy**: Mosaic’s ability to turn high‑level operator objectives into precise autonomous actions reduces decision‑latency in contested environments. - **Operational pedigree**: Founded by ex‑U.S. Space Force operators who wrote foundational doctrine for military space operations, ensuring the product is built for real tactical needs. - **Modular, high‑rate architecture**: Jackal’s scalable design allows cost‑effective production and rapid iteration, crucial for maintaining a strategic edge. ## Strategic Focus - **Scaling production and headcount**: Building out facilities and hiring across engineering, operations, and mission roles to reach 1,000+ employees by 2028. - **Continued mission demonstrations**: Upcoming and recent flight tests (MX‑3 completed June 2026, VICTUS HAZE underway) to validate end‑to‑end kill chain and rendezvous/proximity operations. - **Deepening government partnerships**: Offices in Colorado Springs and Washington, D.C. to support close collaboration with U.S. Space Force and allied space commands. ## Why Work Here - **Mission‑driven culture**: Employees are motivated by the direct impact on national security and freedom of operations in space. The company asks “What would it take?” to solve the hardest problems. - **Hybrid work model**: Offices in Denver (HQ), Long Beach, Colorado Springs, and Washington, D.C. – employees work a mix of in‑office and remote. - **Comprehensive benefits**: 100% employer‑sponsored healthcare (medical/dental/vision), generous time off, equity ownership, 401k/Roth options, and learning & development opportunities. - **Rigorous but supportive hiring process**: Stages include a talent screen, hiring manager interview, technical panel (collaborative assessment), focused 1:1s, a founder interview, and a standard background check. - **Engineering culture**: Emphasis on intellectual curiosity, ownership, resiliency, and a non‑standard approach to complex technical problems. Employees from any technical background are welcome. ## Sources 1. [trueanomaly.space – Company website](https://www.trueanomaly.space/) 2. [trueanomaly.space – Careers page](https://www.trueanomaly.space/careers) 3. [Greenhouse – Job board](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/trueanomalyinc) 4. [LinkedIn – Company profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/true-anomaly) 5. 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