AI Product Designer

Opus; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

21 days paid leave

Visa sponsorship

Job summary

AppliedAI is hiring a product designer to shape the Opus platform with world-class craft, systems thinking, and curiosity about AI. You’ll own features end-to-end—from research and flows to visuals, interactions, and implementation—collaborating closely with engineering and AI teams.

You’ll help define the product language, guide design systems, run iterative experiments with qualitative and quantitative data, and push for elegant, human experiences in a startup-like environment at our Abu Dhabi

Qualifications

• Product design experience in high-craft, product-forward companies or design agencies.
• Portfolio showing end-to-end ownership and shipped polished digital products.
• Strong systems thinking, visual design, and interaction design abilities.
• Comfort working fast and iteratively in a startup-like environment.
• Ability to lead ambiguous problems through to clear, polished solutions.
• Preferred: experience collaborating with AI model training or LLM teams.
• Preferred: experience partnering with major technology companies or external design teams.

Responsibilities

• Define the vision for a north-star experience the user interacts with AI.
• Own end-to-end product areas: research, flows, prototyping, visuals, interactions.
• Collaborate with engineering to ensure craft survives the build process.
• Work with stakeholders across engineering, product, AI teams, and leadership.
• Communicate design rationale to technical and non-design audiences.
• Partner with research to understand user needs and measure success.
• Help evolve the design system for scalability and consistency.
• Design new interaction paradigms for AI agents and generative experiences.

Skills

Systems thinking

Visual design

Interaction design

Prototyping

Collaboration

Job description

AppliedAI is a pioneering AI technology company headquartered in Abu Dhabi, building AI solutions for regulated industries including healthcare, insurance, government, and financial services. We're looking for a designer who blends world-class craft, systems thinking, and genuine curiosity about AI to help shape the experience of our Opus platform.

We're building a category-defining AI product, and we need someone who can imagine experiences that don't exist yet — then bring them to life with elegance, precision, and speed. Whether you're a few years into your career or many, what matters most is the quality of your thinking and the craft in your work.

Define the Vision

• Contribute to a north-star experience for how users interact with AI — intuitive, human, and beautifully simple.
• Help shape the design language, patterns, motion principles, and identity that define our product for years to come.
• Translate business goals into cohesive product concepts and experience strategies.

Own & Ship Great Product

• Take ownership of a product area end-to-end: research, user flows, prototyping, visuals, interactions, and implementation.
• Drive features from concept to prototype to shipped experience, with real attention to detail.
• Collaborate closely with engineering to make sure craft, behaviours, animations, and micro-interactions survive the build process.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work with stakeholders across engineering, product, AI teams, and leadership.
• Communicate design rationale clearly to both technical and non-design audiences.
• Be a thought partner on strategy and trade-offs, not just an executor of specs.

Research, Insights & Data

• Partner with research to understand user behaviours, needs, and pain points.
• Use qualitative and quantitative data to guide decisions and measure success.
• Run iterative experiments, define goals, track metrics, and refine designs based on insight.

Craft & Design Culture

• Set a high bar for UX, visual design, interaction quality, and emotional experience.
• Contribute to and help evolve our design system — scalability, consistency, and delight.

AI-Specific Work

• Design new interaction paradigms for AI agents, automation, co-pilots, and generative experiences.
• Partner with AI model training teams to prototype behaviours, prompt patterns, and explainability features.
• Experiment with new modalities — text, voice, workflow automation, predictive UX, intelligent defaults.

Qualifications:

Required

• Product design experience in high-craft, product-forward companies or design agencies.
• A portfolio that demonstrates end-to-end ownership and shipped, polished digital products.
• Strong systems thinking, visual design, and interaction design ability.
• Comfort working fast and iteratively in a startup-like environment.
• Ability to lead ambiguous problems through to clear, polished solutions.

Preferred

• Experience collaborating with AI model training or LLM teams.
• Experience partnering with major technology companies or external design teams.

Opportunity to work with a leading AI technology company.

Collaborative and innovative work environment.

Growing, entrepreneurial and forward-thinking culture.

Career growth and professional development opportunities.

Exposure to a thriving ecosystem working from our Abu Dhabi HQ.

21 days of paid annual leave.

Visa sponsorship for international candidates.