Product Design Engineer, Employee Experience AI

Russell Tobin is a staffing agency that is seeking a Product Design Engineer for their hospitality client. The role involves designing and implementing AI-powered internal tools to enhance employee experiences, requiring collaboration with various stakeholders and a strong understanding of AI product design.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in Product Design
• 5+ years of experience in Design Engineering
• 5+ years of experience in UX Engineering
• 5+ years of experience in AI Product Design
• 5+ years of experience in Frontend-focused Product Design roles
• Strong portfolio showcasing AI product experiences
• Strong portfolio showcasing interactive workflows
• Strong portfolio showcasing design systems
• Strong portfolio showcasing shipped digital products
• Strong portfolio showcasing prototypes and/or personal AI projects
• Strong experience with Figma
• Strong experience with React
• Strong experience with HTML/CSS
• Strong experience with Tailwind or modern frontend frameworks
• Strong experience with Design Systems / Component Libraries
• Comfortable contributing directly within a frontend codebase
• Strong understanding of AI-native product design concepts
• Experience designing conversational interfaces
• Experience designing AI copilots
• Experience designing agent workflows
• Experience designing 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
• 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