UX Designer

Ocho People; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

36 days holiday

Bonus

Founding designer opportunity

Hybrid work (2 days in Belfast)

Job summary

Ocho People in Belfast is seeking a UX Designer to shape AI-powered experiences from concept to execution. This role sits in the AI Services team within Digital Services and is hybrid with 2 days in the office.

You will collaborate closely with engineers, conduct usability testing and concept validation, and communicate design decisions to senior stakeholders as you translate user needs into tangible, scalable outcomes.

Qualifications

• Significant experience as a UX, Product or Experience Designer across web and mobile.
• Strong portfolio showing AI-native experiences and your contribution.
• Experience designing, validating and optimising solutions through research, usability testing and analytics.
• Comfortable discussing technical concepts, architecture and trade-offs with engineers.
• Right to work in Northern Ireland (no sponsorship available).

Responsibilities

• Produce user-centred AI-powered experiences, prototypes, journeys and interaction flows from concept through to execution.
• Design, build and test proof-of-concepts exploring new technologies and AI capabilities.
• Work closely with engineers to understand technical constraints and architectural trade-offs.
• Conduct customer interviews, usability testing and concept testing to validate real user problems.
• Create high-fidelity prototypes that help stakeholders make decisions quickly.
• Present concepts, prototypes and learnings confidently to senior stakeholders and leadership.
• Create design artefacts that support successful handover into delivery teams.
• Facilitate design-led workshops with product, engineering and business stakeholders.

Skills

UX experience

AI-enabled design

Prototyping & testing

Engineer collaboration

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Figma

Prototyping tools

Job description

UX Designer

At a Glance

• Belfast, Hybrid (2 days per week in office)
• AI Services team, Digital Services
• Salary: DOE
• Design AI-powered products and experiences from concept to execution

About the Company
Our client is a large, global organisation investing in a new generation of technology capability, transforming customer and employee experience and reshaping how software is designed, built, tested and delivered. Their AI Services team explores, tests and shapes the future of AI-powered experiences across the business - creating proof-of-concepts, prototypes and early-stage products that show how emerging technology can deliver real value for customers and the business.

Role Overview
This isn't a traditional UX role. We're looking for a designer who's genuinely curious about how AI systems work and comfortable working closely with engineers to shape experiences that are technically feasible and genuinely valuable. You'll combine strong UX craft with technical curiosity - understanding how model behaviour, architecture, cost and performance considerations shape the experiences you create - and bring what you learn back to the team through prototypes and demonstrations. Above all, you'll care deeply about the end user, testing and validating ideas continuously and helping embed a culture of experimentation across the wider team.

Key Responsibilities

• Produce user-centred AI-powered experiences, prototypes, journeys and interaction flows from concept through to execution
• Design, build and test proof-of-concepts exploring new technologies and AI capabilities
• Work closely with engineers to understand technical constraints and architectural trade-offs
• Conduct customer interviews, usability testing and concept testing to validate real user problems
• Create high-fidelity prototypes that help stakeholders make decisions quickly
• Present concepts, prototypes and learnings confidently to senior stakeholders and leadership
• Create design artefacts that support successful handover into delivery teams
• Facilitate design-led workshops with product, engineering and business stakeholders

What You'll Need

Essential

• Significant experience as a UX, Product or Experience Designer across web and mobile
• A strong portfolio showing high-quality design craft and AI-native experiences, with clear evidence of your contribution
• Experience designing, validating and optimising solutions through research, usability testing and analytics
• Experience building prototypes using AI tools or modern design/development technology
• Comfortable discussing technical concepts, architecture and trade-offs with engineers
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills, confident presenting to senior stakeholders
• Right to work in Northern Ireland (no sponsorship available)

Desirable

• Experience designing AI-native, conversational, agentic or multimodal experiences
• Understanding of AI architecture, prompting, retrieval, tool calling or agent orchestration
• Experience contributing to early-stage product discovery or innovation initiatives
• Front-end skills or experience building coded prototypes
• Experience with design systems and accessibility standards

Benefits & Package
36 days' holiday, bonus, and much more - plus the opportunity to become a founding designer on entirely new AI-powered experiences. Hybrid working, 2 days per week in Belfast.