Digital Product Designer for AI (m/f/d)

Digital Product Designer for AI  (m/f/d)

Location: Poland  / within Poland

Role Overview

As a Digital Product Designer for AI, you will work with an Agile product team to achieve UX outcomes, while guiding the design process and improving the team’s design capability. You will also: help Aras learn more about current experiences and needs of the people we serve; influence product strategy and future UX initiatives; and contribute to continuous improvement of our product culture.

At Aras, our mission is to transform the way the world makes products. By reinventing software for engineering and manufacturing, we empower our customers with the flexibility to overcome tomorrow’s challenges. Aras is undergoing a major Product Culture transformation, including significant focus on the Design competency. The successful candidate will join a growing team of accomplished and burgeoning Product Designers (7+), guided by proven leadership in UX/Design and Product Management.

Key Responsibilities

Collaborate with Product Managers and cross-functional, geographically dispersed, empowered Agile product teams (“the teams”) to practice design as a team sport

Ensure the teams’ execution of an effective, human-focused design process

Lead the definition of UX outcomes; and guide the teams to achieve/exceed defined UX outcomes

Establish and maintain shared understanding within the teams and with all other design influencers/stakeholders

Facilitate and foster teams learning about customer/user needs and expectations (e.g. contextual inquiry, usability testing, presentations)

Utilize insights from analytics and customer interactions to inform design decisions

Generate artifacts with appropriate fidelity to aid communication of design input and intent (e.g. maps/flows, interfaces, interactions)

Communicate effectively with all stakeholders outside the teams (e.g. customers, peer teams, executives, internal functional organizations)

Favor solution approaches that deliver customer value as quickly and often as practical

Help the teams continually improve how design decisions are made

Share best practices with other product designers and teams

Propose ideas to improve customer/user experience throughout the organization

Required Qualifications

5-7+ years of experience in digital product design, user experience, service design, customer experience, or equivalent role

2+ years of experience designing AI/ML-powered experiences

Familiarity with generative AI/ML and NLP concepts, including but not limited to: conversational AI and chatbot assistant design; trust, transparency, and explainability in AI interfaces; LLMs, prompt engineering, and RAG systems

Strong portfolio showcasing AI/ML-related UX projects

Demonstrated ability to generate order and clarity from ambiguity and chaos

Preferred Qualifications

Exemplary customer-value orientation

Experience designing for B2B SaaS

Manufacturing industry experience and knowledge of product development best practices (e.g. PLM, Digital Thread, manufacturing, engineering design automation, or related domains)

Familiarity with key PLM / Digital Thread concepts, workflows & use cases

Experience prototyping and designing new concepts, as well as refining and extending deployed, mission-critical, enterprise product/service offerings

Proven track record designing complex systems or enterprise platforms

Passion for problem-solving, design thinking & continuous learning methodologies

Independence and quick decision-making abilities; sound judgment for raising flags in a timely manner

Ability to work under pressure and in a dynamic, ambiguous environment

Ability to motivate/influence technical resources to deliver exceptional user experiences

Experience designing within an Agile development environment

Familiarity with Front-End platforms (e.g. AngularJS, ReactJS)

Advanced degree (or equivalent) in design, user experience, human factors, or related field