Product Design Engineer, Employee Experience AI

One of our hospitality clients is looking for Product Designer Engineer Role: Product Design Engineer - Employee Experience AI Location: Remote Duration: 6 Months Contract (Potential Extension/Conversion Possible) Portfolio Required About the Team The team is building AI-powered internal tools focused on improving how employees and managers work across the organization. The team operates like an internal AI product startup, partnering closely with engineering, design, and HR stakeholders to create next-generation employee experiences powered by AI. This team is heavily focused on AI-native product development and is looking for someone who can help define how AI experiences should feel, behave, and scale across internal products. About the Role This is not a traditional UX or visual design role. The team is looking for a highly collaborative Product Design Engineer / AI Product Designer who can both design and implement AI-powered experiences. The ideal candidate understands how modern AI systems behave and can design workflows around ambiguity, unpredictability, latency, conversational interactions, and agent-based experiences. This person will work directly alongside AI engineers inside the codebase and help define reusable interaction patterns, components, and design systems for AI-native employee tools. The role is highly cross-functional and fast-moving, requiring strong communication skills, systems thinking, and comfort working in ambiguous environments where priorities and product directions evolve quickly. What will you do: Design and help build AI-powered internal employee tools and workflows

Create AI-native interaction patterns for conversational and agent-based systems

Design experiences around: non-deterministic AI behavior

streaming responses

multi-step workflows

latency and edge cases

AI handoffs and orchestration flows

Work directly inside the frontend codebase alongside developers

Build reusable design systems, components, and patterns for internal AI products

Prototype rapidly using tools like Figma, Claude Code, and modern AI-assisted development workflows

Collaborate with Product Managers, AI Engineers, Developers, Technical Writers, and Design stakeholders

Present ideas and influence stakeholders across cross-functional teams

Help establish internal AI design standards and best practices

What they're looking for: 5+ years of experience in:

Product Design

Design Engineering

UX Engineering

AI Product Design

Frontend-focused Product Design roles

Strong portfolio showcasing:

AI product experiences

interactive workflows

design systems

shipped digital products

prototypes and/or personal AI projects

Strong experience with:

Figma

React

HTML/CSS

Tailwind or modern frontend frameworks

Design Systems / Component Libraries

Comfortable contributing directly within a frontend codebase

Strong understanding of AI-native product design concepts

Experience designing:

conversational interfaces

AI copilots

agent workflows

LLM-powered products

Ability to design through ambiguity and evolving requirements

Strong communication and presentation skills

Ability to explain design rationale, tradeoffs, and systems thinking clearly

Preferred / Nice to Have Experience building or owning formal design systems

Exposure to tools like Claude, OpenAI APIs, Glean, or similar AI platforms

Background in HR tech, workplace tools, or employee experience products

Experience working alongside platform or infrastructure engineering teams

Russell Tobin offers eligible employee's comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, and vision plans), supplemental coverage (accident insurance, critical illness insurance and hospital indemnity), 401(k)-retirement savings, life & disability insurance, an employee assistance program, legal support, auto, home insurance, pet insurance and employee discounts with preferred vendors. Equal Employment Opportunity Russell Tobin is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of the race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, reproductive health decision making, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. Fair Chance Employment Russell Tobin is a Fair Chance employer. We consider all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable state and local Fair Chance laws and ordinances, including, the California Fair Chance Act and all applicable local Fair Chance ordinances. Accommodations We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or interview process, or to perform the essential functions of this role, please contact us. Only applicable for San Francisco Candidates : Under the San Francisco Lactation in the Workplace Ordinance, we will provide written notice of lactation accommodation rights, and this notice will automatically be given upon hiring, any inquiry of parental leave or lactation accommodation.

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