Intermediate UX/UI Designer

Autohive; Wellington; On-site; NZD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Autohive in Wellington seeks an Intermediate UX/UI Designer for a 6-month maternity leave contract starting around 16 November 2026. This role blends product and marketing design and uses AI tools to shape experiences from idea to launch.

You will collaborate with founders, product, engineering, and growth, and help maintain the design system while pushing AI-enabled design across product and brand.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in UX, product design and/or digital design.
• Strong interaction design, information architecture, and visual design skills.
• Ability to move comfortably between product design and marketing design.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience working in fast-moving environments where priorities can change quickly.
• Role requires actively using AI as part of design practice.

Responsibilities

• Design Product Experiences: conduct user research, create user flows/wireframes/interfaces, translate AI concepts into intuitive UX.
• Design for Growth and Marketing: create landing pages/assets, support experiments, ensure consistent visual language, evolve brand."
• Use AI as Part of Your Craft: accelerate research/ideation/design, use AI for analysis and generation, prototype and validate.
• Be part of how we work: maintain/evolve design system, improve processes, contribute ideas, stay curious.

Skills

UX experience

Interaction design

Info architecture

Visual design

Product/Marketing design

Communication

Agile environment

AI in design

Job description

Design the future of work with AI

Autohive is the hub where people and agents work together. Low effort, real processes, hours returned.

We help organisations discover, build, and deploy AI agents that automate real work. From sales and marketing to operations and customer service, we're creating a future where every team can work alongside AI.

We're a small team with big ambitions. We move quickly, ship often, and use AI every day to help us think, research, design, build, and market faster than traditional teams.

We're looking for an Intermediate UX/UI Designer to join us on a 6-month fixed-term maternity leave contract, ideally starting on or around 16 November 2026. This fixed-term role is based in office at our Wellington central HQ.

This role is ideal for a designer who is excited by AI, already using it in their workflow, and wants to help define what modern AI-assisted design looks like.

The Opportunity

This isn't a traditional UX role.

You won't spend months polishing wireframes that never ship. You'll work across product, marketing, growth, and brand. You'll help shape experiences from idea to launch, using AI tools throughout the process.

You'll work closely with founders, product, engineering, and growth, with the autonomy to make decisions and the responsibility to see them through.

Most importantly, you’ll help us discover how AI can make great designers even better. Our designers are constantly learning how to use AI to strengthen their design process and deliver higher-quality UX and UI. We expect you to be just as curious, motivated, and excited to explore what’s possible.

What You'll Do

Design Product Experiences

• Conduct user research to uncover customer needs, behaviors, and pain points, and turn those insights into better product experiences
• Design user flows, wireframes, interfaces, and interactions across new and existing product experiences
• Translate complex AI concepts into intuitive, accessible user experiences
• Rapidly prototype and test ideas using AI tools, or be eager to learn how
• Work closely with engineering to ensure designs are practical, scalable, and ready to ship

Design for Growth and Marketing

• Create landing pages, campaign assets, product visuals, and website experiences
• Support experiments that help us acquire, activate, and retain users
• Ensure a consistent visual language across product and marketing
• Contribute to brand evolution as Autohive grows

Use AI as Part of Your Craft

• Use AI tools to accelerate research, discovery, ideation, planning, and design
• Leverage AI for competitor analysis, user insight synthesis, content generation, and concept exploration
• Use AI-assisted design and coding tools to rapidly prototype and validate ideas
• Continuously experiment with new AI workflows and share what you learn with the team
• Be willing to learn and adopt AI into your design toolbelt

Help Shape How We Work

• Maintain and evolve our design system
• Help improve internal design processes
• Contribute ideas beyond design and help shape product direction
• Bring curiosity, initiative, and a willingness to experiment

Core Skills

• 2+ years of experience in UX, product design and/or digital design
• Strong interaction design, information architecture, and visual design skills
• Ability to move comfortably between product design and marketing design
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Experience working in fast-moving environments where priorities can change quickly

AI-Native Mindset

This role requires someone who actively uses AI as part of their design practice.

We're less interested in which tools you use and more interested in how you think about them.

When you apply, we want to see evidence of how AI helps you:

• Research and analyse problems
• Generate ideas and explore concepts
• Create user flows and design solutions
• Build prototypes and test assumptions
• Improve your overall speed and quality of work

Be prepared to walk us through your workflow and show examples.

Location

This role is based in our Wellington CBD office. Applicants must already be legally entitled to work in New Zealand.

Why Join Autohive?

Unlimited AI Experimentation

We provide the tools. You bring curiosity. Use the latest AI platforms, models, and workflows without worrying about limits.

Real Ownership

Your work won't sit in a backlog. You'll help shape ideas, ship experiences, and see the impact of your decisions.

Work Across Product and Growth

Few design roles offer meaningful ownership across product, marketing, brand, and experimentation. This one does.

Learn at the Frontier

AI is changing how software is built and how design is practiced. You'll be working alongside people who are actively exploring what comes next.

Small Team, Big Impact

No layers of management. No endless approvals. Just smart people building ambitious things together.