Product Design Engineer, Employee Experience AI

Product Design Engineer, Employee Experience AI

**W2 contract, min of 6 months ** REMOTE in US**

Our client is a global online marketplace that connects travelers with property owners offering short-term lodging and unique experiences. It offers an alternative to traditional hotels, giving guests access to accommodations ranging from spare rooms and apartments to luxury homes and unique getaways in over 220 countries.

The Employee Experience (EX) team at our client is building a suite of AI-powered tools that make work better for employees and managers. We're looking for a Product Design Engineer who builds what they design someone who thinks in interaction patterns and user flows, can prototype in high fidelity, and is just as particular about the craft of a micro-interaction as they are about the quality of the component underneath it.

This is not a graphic design or traditional UX role. The work sits at the intersection of employee experience and AI-native product design, and you'll be working directly in their codebase alongside AI engineers as a peer. That means thinking beyond screens and static flows, into the emerging vocabulary of AI interaction: how do you design for uncertainty, latency, and outputs that aren't fully predictable? If that's the kind of challenge that excites you, this role was written for you.

What You'll Do

• Help define the design language for our AI-native employee tools, building on the companys Design Language System where it fits and establishing new patterns, components, and principles where the demands of employee experience require something distinctly our own.
• Design and iterate on experiences for AI-powered tools across EX's four signature services: Gathering, Onboarding, Performance Management, and Workforce Planning
• Design, prototype, and productize AI-powered experiences across EX's four signature services (Onboarding, Gathering, Performance Management, etc.), using Figma, Claude Code, and our broader toolset
• Hands-on experience designing for agentic or AI-native interfaces, including multi-step task flows, proactive systems, and experiences where the user is collaborating with AI across input types (text, voice, and ambient) as products evolve beyond traditional screen-based flows
• Familiarity with how LLM-based systems actually behave including orchestration patterns, model handoff, and how to design meaningful user control when the system is acting on someone's behalf
• Partner with AI engineers and product managers on EX's internal production platform (Hyperloop), bridging design intent and technical execution through the full build cycle
• Conduct lightweight usability testing with employees and managers to validate and iterate on design decisions
• Contribute to the EX AI knowledge base by ensuring tool documentation and user-facing content is clear, well-organized, and visually consistent

What We're Looking For
Portfolio required; we want to see a mix of design work and the code or prototypes behind it

• 5+ years of UX/UI, product design, design engineering, or hybrid design/frontend role, with a portfolio that includes web application work
• Expertise with Figma, specifically experience designing, modifying, and maintaining component specs and systems
• Strong React proficiency and working knowledge of HTML and CSS; you should be comfortable working directly in a codebase, contributing to pull requests, and collaborating with engineers as a technical peer
• Experience designing AI-native or conversational interfaces, with a solid understanding of the design challenges unique to LLM-powered products: streaming responses, ambiguous outputs, multi-turn flows, and building trust with users when the system is inherently dynamic; experience with the Claude API or similar is a strong plus
• Strong instincts around information architecture and emerging AI interaction patterns, informed by hands-on experience with tools like the Google AI Suite, Claude Enterprise, Glean, or similar
• Experience designing for non-technical end users in an enterprise or internal tools context, with the craft of consumer-grade products
• Comfort moving fast with incomplete information, our tools and user needs are evolving and your designs will too

Nice to Have

• Prior experience designing a formal design system, not just consuming or contributing to it
• Experience with HR tech, people operations tools, or workplace experience products
• Experience working in or alongside a platform engineering team

What Success Looks Like
In six months, you'll have meaningly contributed to two production-ready EX tools and a series of prototypes and features that move our product roadmap forward. You'll have co-authored a design language for AI-native employee experiences the components, interaction patterns, and principles that give our tools a coherent identity and a playbook others can build on. And you'll have raised the bar for what design-led AI experiences can feel like inside the company.

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