Staff Designer

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Staff Designer, Rapid Prototyping based in United States.

• Build functional prototypes and product experiments directly in the application codebase, rapidly translating concepts into interactive experiences that can be tested and evaluated.
• Translate ambiguous product ideas, user workflows, partner feedback, and enterprise requirements into clear, intuitive, and usable product experiences.
• Define interaction patterns for AI-powered experiences, including chat, search, research, workflow automation, knowledge retrieval, and enterprise administration.
• Use AI-assisted development tools thoughtfully to accelerate prototyping and implementation while maintaining high standards for quality, usability, security, accessibility, and maintainability.
• Partner closely with product managers, designers, engineers, and enterprise-facing teams to explore ideas, validate concepts, and refine product direction.
• Contribute production-quality front-end code when appropriate, bridging design intent and technical implementation.
• Evaluate prototypes and determine when an experiment should be discarded, refined, generalized, or developed into a production-ready experience.
• Improve the overall usability, accessibility, consistency, and polish of product interfaces and workflows.
• Develop reusable components, interaction patterns, and design-system elements that provide leverage and improve the broader product team's ability to move quickly.
• Bring a user-centered perspective to technical and product discussions, particularly around AI behavior, transparency, permissions, user control, trust, and workflow clarity.
• Incorporate enterprise considerations such as sensitive data, administrative visibility, auditability, security expectations, and user permissions into product experiences.
• Help foster a product culture centered on experimentation, speed, clarity, maintainability, responsible AI use, and thoughtful user experience.
• Provide technical and product leadership through mentoring, cross-functional coordination, project ownership, reusable patterns, and influence beyond individual deliverables.

• 10+ years of relevant professional experience in design engineering, front-end engineering, UX engineering, product design with strong technical implementation experience, or a closely related field, with demonstrated leadership and impact beyond individual deliverables.
• Strong front-end engineering capabilities, including modern JavaScript or TypeScript, component-based frameworks, and experience building prototypes or production features directly within an application codebase.
• Strong product and interaction design judgment across usability, accessibility, information architecture, workflow design, and interface polish.
• Demonstrated experience designing, prototyping, or building AI-enabled product experiences such as chat, search, research tools, agents, automation, knowledge interfaces, or workflow products.
• Ability to translate ambiguous concepts into usable workflows, prototypes, and shipped experiences while balancing speed, quality, maintainability, learning, and product risk.
• Practical understanding of AI, privacy, security, and regulatory considerations that influence product experiences, including transparency, permissions, user control, data handling, and trust.
• Familiarity with responsible AI, privacy, or security frameworks such as the EU AI Act, Cyber Resilience Act, HIPAA, or comparable requirements is valuable.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with experience partnering closely with product managers, designers, engineers, and other cross-functional stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to provide technical or product leadership through mentoring, project ownership, cross-functional influence, or the creation of reusable systems and patterns.
• Portfolio, case studies, shipped products, or other examples demonstrating design-to-code execution, interactive prototyping, or meaningful product experience improvements.
• Experience with enterprise software, developer tools, productivity platforms, collaboration products, self-hosted software, or other technical user workflows is a plus.
• Experience contributing to design systems, component libraries, reusable front-end architecture, or shared product interaction patterns is beneficial.
• Familiarity with user research, usability testing, product discovery, feature instrumentation, or rapid experimentation methods is a plus.
• Experience working within open-source or highly collaborative engineering environments is advantageous.
• Strong documentation and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across time zones and disciplines.

• Base salary benchmarked to market and commensurate with experience.