Senior Designer - Design Studio

Cognite; Oslo; On-site; NOK 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

DEI focus

Modern culture

Flat structure

Private health services

Subsidized lunch

Coffee bar

Gym on-site

Robot Garden access

Job summary

Cognite, a leading industrial AI and data solutions company, is seeking a Senior AI native designer for the Oslo team to invent, prototype, and scale next-generation product experiences on Cognite Data Fusion.

You’ll partner with product, engineering, strategy, and customers to uncover needs, validate hypotheses, and turn complex problems into elegant, data-aware solutions. You’ll design for probabilistic systems and contribute to trusted, human-in-the-loop UX that drives business impact.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of product design experience.
• Fluency with AI-native workflows: prompts, agents, RAG, cost/latency.
• Hands-on prototyping with real data via APIs/SDKs or low-code tools.
• Strong user research: plan, run studies, synthesize signals into direction.
• Portfolio showing end-to-end ownership of AI-driven experiences.
• Excellent collaboration and communication; ability to present to executives.

Responsibilities

• Own outcomes end-to-end from discovery to shipped experience.
• Operationalize AI in the UX with tool contracts and feedback loops.
• Collaborate with engineering to scope increments and derisk hard problems.
• Continuously validate via user research and rapid iteration.

Skills

AI-native workflows

Hands-on prototyping

User research

Portfolio

Collaboration & communication

Prototyping with real data

Design for probabilistic systems

Job description

Cognite operates at the forefront of industrial digitalization, building AI, and data solutions that solve the world’s hardest, highest-impact problems. With unmatched industrial heritage and a comprehensive suite of AI capabilities, including low-code AI agents, Cognite accelerates the digital transformation to drive operational improvements.

We thrive in challenges. We challenge assumptions. We execute with speed and ownership. If you view obstacles as signals to step forward - not backwards - you’ll feel right at home here.

Our Moonshot is bold: Unlock $100B in customer value by 2035, and redefine how global industry works. Join us in this venture where AI and data meet ingenuity, and together, we will forge the path to a smarter, more connected industrial future.

How you’ll demonstrate Ownership

We're looking for a Senior AI native designer for our Cognite Oslo team to invent, prototype, and scale next-generation product experiences on top of Cognite Data Fusion (CDF).

As a Senior Product Designer, you’ll use advanced AI tools and methods to move from insight → concept → working experience with high speed and clarity. You’ll partner closely with product, engineering, strategy, and customers to uncover unmet needs, validate hypotheses, and turn ambiguous problems into elegant, testable, data-aware solutions. You’re hands-on, experimental, and fluent in AI— converting user research to compelling prototypes, and shaping trustworthy, human-in-the-loop experiences that deliver business impact.

The Impact you bring to Cognite

• Prototype with real data and real models: connect to mock data or internal APIs; validate flows under realistic latency, streaming, and cost constraints.
• Design for probabilistic systems: author patterns for imperfect answers, disagreement handling, correction, and escalation to humans-in-the-loop.
• Express ideas at multiple fidelities: from prompt-generated concept boards to interactive agents, micro-workflows, and production-ready UI.
• Partner with business designers and product strategists to evaluate desirability, feasibility, and viability; shape experience KPIs and success metrics.
• Tell the story through compelling narratives, visuals, and prototypes that make the future feel obvious—and shippable.
• Lead design sessions and facilitate cross-functional workshops

Design Execution & Ownership

• Own outcomes end-to-end from discovery to shipped experience: research plans, flows, systems, content, and component-level detail.
• Operationalize AI in the UX: define tool/agent contracts, error states, monitoring hooks, and feedback loops to continuously improve quality and cost.
• Collaborate tightly with engineering to scope increments, derisk hard problems early, and land details with high craft.
• Continuously validate via user research, experiment design, and rapid iteration; make evidence-based tradeoffs across user value, reliability, and cost.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of product design experience
• Fluency with AI-native workflows: prompt design, evaluation, and chaining; agents/tools; RAG; model/runtime constraints (latency, token/cost budgets).
• Hands-on prototyping with real data (e.g., connecting prototypes to APIs/SDKs, lightweight code, or no/low-code tools) to validate feasibility and UX.
• Strong user research skills: plan and run studies, synthesize qualitative & quantitative signals into clear insights and direction.
• Portfolio demonstrating end-to-end ownership of complex, data-heavy or AI-powered experiences, including trust/safety and human-in-the-loop patterns.
• Excellent collaboration & communication: proactive stakeholder management, clear storytelling, and comfort presenting to executives and customers.

A snapshot of our many perks and benefits as a Cogniter

• Join an organization of 60 different nationalities with Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) in focus
• A highly modern and fun working environment with sublime culture across the organization, follow us on Instagram @ cognitedata to know more
• Flat structure with direct access to decision-makers
• Opportunity to work with and learn from some of the best people on some of the most ambitious projects found anywhere, across industries, with cutting edge technology
• Join our HUB to be part of the conversation directly with Cogniters and our partners.
• Get access to private health services with Cognite Care.
• Hungry? We’ve got your back. A subsidized lunch at the canteen is delivered by the chefs at Fornebuporten (Aker Tech House)
• Our own Cognite exclusive coffee bar with the friendliest baristas is here to brew coffee for coffee lovers, tea for tea lovers, smoothie for smoothie lovers, and the baristas creative concoctions when the mood strikes.
• We take your mental- and physical health seriously by having a broad health offering and a free membership to your fully-staffed gym on-site.
• A pet lover? Get the chance to meet Spot at the Robot Garden!
• We’re globally recognized domain experts with an international presence that spans Phoenix, Houston, Oslo Tokyo, Bengaluru, and Abu Dhabi.

Cognite is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment at work and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive the same level of consideration for employment.

Our team operates with a hybrid work model which includes working from our Oslo office.