Product Design Lead, AI

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Product Design Lead, AI based in the United States.

This is an exciting opportunity for an AI-native design leader to shape next-generation digital products for ambitious consumer brands.
You will lead the design of AI-powered features and experiences, transforming emerging technologies into intuitive, engaging, and meaningful user interactions.
Working on a major client account, you will own key design workstreams and help translate complex business challenges into innovative product solutions.
You will combine strong UX and UI expertise with advanced visual design skills to deliver polished, user-centered experiences across mobile applications and websites.
In close collaboration with product managers, engineers, developers, and fellow designers, you will bring ideas to life through rapid iteration and thoughtful experimentation.
You will also work directly with senior client stakeholders, balancing strategic product thinking, business objectives, and consumer needs.
This fully remote opportunity is ideal for a forward-thinking design professional who embraces AI as a practical design tool and a powerful driver of product innovation.

Accountabilities

• AI Product Experience Design: Lead the design of AI-powered features, interactions, and workflows that meaningfully improve the user experience. Address the complexities of AI-driven interactions, including edge cases, failure states, trust signals, and situations where AI-generated outputs are incomplete, incorrect, or unexpected.
• Product Design Leadership: Own and drive distinct design workstreams within a larger client engagement, providing direction, maintaining momentum, and making informed decisions in collaboration with design leadership and cross-functional partners.
• End-to-End UX and UI Design: Deliver comprehensive design solutions across research-informed user experiences, interaction design, visual design, and interface development. Produce high-fidelity prototypes, production-ready designs, wireframes, annotations, and other artifacts needed to communicate and implement design concepts.
• Client Collaboration and Relationship Management: Work directly with client stakeholders to understand business goals, product priorities, and consumer needs. Present design concepts, communicate recommendations clearly, incorporate feedback, and build trusted working relationships with senior-level clients.
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Collaborate closely with product management, engineering, development, and multidisciplinary design teams to ensure solutions are feasible, cohesive, and aligned with product objectives.
• AI-Enabled Design Workflows: Integrate AI tools into the design process to accelerate exploration, expand creative possibilities, improve efficiency, and support more effective problem-solving. Apply these tools thoughtfully to both the design process and the experiences being developed.
• Design Systems and Product Consistency: Work effectively within enterprise-scale design systems, applying established standards while identifying opportunities to improve consistency, usability, and visual quality across digital products.
• Iterative Product Development: Contribute to agile design and development cycles, adapting to changing priorities and balancing rapid experimentation and optimization with longer-term product strategy.
• Creative Problem-Solving: Proactively identify opportunities, explore innovative concepts, and collaborate with teammates and clients to resolve complex experience challenges while maintaining a high standard of design craft.

Requirements

• Professional Experience: Demonstrated experience in product design, preferably within an agency or a comparable environment, designing native iOS and Android applications as well as websites.
• AI Product Design Expertise: Proven experience designing AI-enabled product features, interfaces, workflows, or interactions in which AI meaningfully influences how users accomplish their goals. Candidates should understand the functional and experiential implications of AI, beyond its visual presentation.
• AI Tool Fluency: Experience incorporating AI tools into design workflows to accelerate ideation, explore alternatives, and improve productivity. A practical, experimental mindset toward e…