Product Experience & Design Lead (AI & CX)

Mastercard; Dublin; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard is building a next-generation CXD Squad focused on designing AI-driven experiences and collaborative product work. You will join the AI & Data team to shape user experiences, drive innovation and design thinking within our products.

You’ll work with cross-functional teams to create impactful experiences for users, architects, and stakeholders, blending design craft with strategic product thinking.

Qualifications

• Over 6 years of UX/UI design experience for consumer-facing products and B2B solutions.
• Master & advanced proficiency in Figma, including component systems and scalable design systems.
• Experience using Figma Make (or similar AI-assisted design tooling) to accelerate ideation, prototyping and iteration.
• Hands‑on experience with Vibe Coding or similar rapid prototyping approaches where design and code converge.
• Ability to iterate & craft detailing new components based on a design North Star.
• Strong UX focus and understanding of component properties, behaviors and grids.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to our design system between Design, Product and Engineering.
• Ensure that our User Experience optimizes business objectives and user engagement, working closely with Product Design partners & Product Managers.
• Ideate and conceptualize new features aligned with product strategies.
• Rapid prototyping of Proof-of-Concepts and MVPs using human-centered design principles.
• Create new visual designs, reusable components via high-fidelity assets, user flows, journey maps, and beyond, to achieve the best Customer Experience.
• Adapting & iterate Proof-of-Concept components onto our Design System.
• Continuously improve efficiency in the design process and the overall product experience by using atomic design principles.

Skills

Product thinking

Strategic thinking

Collaboration

User-centric mindset

Tools

Figma

Figma Make

Vibe Coding

Job description

Mastercard is building a next-generation CXD Squad focused on designing AI-driven experiences and collaborative product work. You will join the AI & Data team to shape user experiences, drive innovation and design thinking within our products.

You’ll work with cross-functional teams to create impactful experiences for users, architects, and stakeholders, blending design craft with strategic product thinking.