Staff UX/UI Designer — AI-Driven Design Lead

Robots and Pencils; Colombia; Remote; COP 120,000,000 - 210,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Robots & Pencils, an applied AI engineering firm, is seeking a Staff UX/UI Designer to define design strategy and lead quality across major client engagements. This role is ideal for an experienced designer who can own end-to-end design for complex, multi-platform products, lead UX research strategy, and partner with leadership and clients to shape product direction.

In this role, you will work as a key design leader on a cross-functional team, owning design system architecture, driving research

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional UX/UI design experience with a strong product background.
• Expert Figma proficiency with design system architecture experience.
• Deep experience leading design systems at scale, including architecture, governance, and cross-team adoption.
• Deep UX research experience including research strategy, methodology selection, and translating insights into product direction.
• Experience defining design strategy for complex products or engagements.
• Experience presenting and influencing at the leadership and client level.
• Track record of mentoring designers and lifting team craft.
• Strong experience with AI-assisted design tools and leading their adoption within a team (e.g., Figma AI, Claude).
• Experience facilitating workshops, design sprints, and collaborative sessions with clients and cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Define design strategy and direction for major engagements, leading end-to-end design across complex, multi-platform products
• Own design system architecture and governance, ensuring consistency, scalability, and flexibility across products and teams
• Lead UX research strategy — selecting methodologies, embedding research into the delivery process, and ensuring insights influence product direction
• Champion AI-powered design workflows and lead their adoption on engagements, driving efficiency and creative quality
• Drive design operations and process improvements that improve how the Experience team delivers and collaborates
• Lead internal initiatives including marketing, business development, and the evolution of the design practice
• Partner with leadership and clients on design direction, serving as a senior design voice at the engagement level
• Collaborate closely with engineers, strategists, and delivery leads to align design decisions with technical and business realities
• Lead workshops, design sprints, and collaborative sessions with clients and cross-functional teams

Skills

UX/UI design

Figma proficiency

Design systems

UX research

Leadership

Mentoring

AI-assisted design tools

Workshop facilitation

Client engagement

Tools

Figma

Claude

Job description

Robots & Pencils, an applied AI engineering firm, is seeking a Staff UX/UI Designer to define design strategy and lead quality across major client engagements. This role is ideal for an experienced designer who can own end-to-end design for complex, multi-platform products, lead UX research strategy, and partner with leadership and clients to shape product direction.

In this role, you will work as a key design leader on a cross-functional team, owning design system architecture, driving research