Senior Product Designer I

Inductive Automation creates solutions for industrial automation innovation that improve operational efficiency and integration. The Senior Product Designer I owns the design lifecycle for a defined Ignition platform product area, partnering with product management and engineering to develop and deliver production-ready design solutions. The role also leads design reviews, resolves blockers, contributes to design systems and cross-team features, and mentors junior designers.

Responsibilities:

• Owning the design lifecycle for your product area: research, grooming, validation, and iteration
• Independently producing and communicating high-quality, production-ready work with strong autonomy, without sacrificing quality or delivery speed
• Consistently considering the holistic user experience and all potential states (errors, successes, dead-ends)
• Applying Inductive Automation's design systems, identifying gaps, and proposing additions or improvements
• Contributing to medium-to-large features that cross team or department boundaries, negotiating scope and technical tradeoffs with engineering and product partners
• Sharing work early, leading reviews of your own work with clarity, and giving specific, actionable feedback on peer’s work
• Escalating problems when definitions are unclear, and driving forward when they are merely incomplete
• Picking up unowned or undesirable work, and improving shared tools and processes for the whole team
• Contributing perspective on design direction in your area, and flagging decisions that conflict with broader product goals
• Staying current on design tools and paradigms, and sharing what is actually useful with the team
• Mentoring junior designers through direct feedback and pairing, and contributing to hiring when asked

Requirements:

• • 3-5 years of experience as a professional product designer with a portfolio demonstrating shipped, production work, including your role in research, iteration, and final outcomes
• • Experience designing complex, stateful software end-to-end, with strong autonomy and without sacrificing quality or delivery speed
• • Excellent communication skills, including leading design reviews and cross-functional sessions, presenting complex decisions accessibly, and giving direct, useful feedback
• • Confidence to drive solution definition when requirements are incomplete, with the judgment to escalate when they are too ambiguous to proceed
• • High proficiency in at least one technical area, such as data visualization, complex workflows, or accessibility
• • Proficient in Figma, including building and maintaining design systems, and managing complex components across multiple projects
• • Ability to quickly prototype design ideas through mockups, interactive prototypes and wireframes
• • Experience collaborating cross-functionally with engineering and other stakeholders on multi-person or cross-team projects, including negotiating scope and technical tradeoffs
• •At this time, we are unable to offer employment for individuals located outside of the United States and/or those who require sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H-1B visa status).•
• • Bachelor's degree in Design, or related field
• • Experience independently planning and conducting user research, and turning findings into design decisions
• • Actively experimenting with generative AI in your design practice, with concrete examples of What is and is not working to improve your process or output