Agentic Design Lead - AI-Driven Product Craft

Slalom; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 112,000 - 178,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Parental leave

401(k) match

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Well-being stipend

Discounted home insurance

Discounted auto insurance

Discounted pet insurance

Adoption assistance

Fertility assistance

Short/long-term disability

Job summary

Slalom is seeking a Senior Consultant or Principal Agentic Designer to define and lead a new era of digital product innovation. You will drive design with AI-assisted iteration, collaborating across product, design and engineering teams to deliver complex, high-velocity projects.

You will mentor designers and design engineers, steward design systems at scale, and engage in VP-level client conversations to shape strategy and outcomes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in product design, UX design, or design engineering (professional services experience preferred).
• Portfolio showing systems thinking, GenAI processes, design craft and velocity.
• Deep expertise in Figma and design systems at scale.
• Proven collaboration with product owners and engineering leads in Agile delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead design engineering execution on accelerated product builds and workshops.
• Build production-quality interfaces using agentic coding assistants and bridge to code teams.
• Use context engineering systems to keep product, design and engineering in sync.
• Collaborate as a true cross-functional partner with development teams.
• Own product design direction from specifications to interaction and visuals.
• Steward design system integrity across large multi-team builds.
• Drive iterative testing based on real user data.
• Mentor Design Engineers, Product Designers and junior staff.

Skills

Design leadership

Agentic design

Cross-functional

UX design

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

Cline

GitHub Copilot

Git workflows

IDEs

Job description

Slalom is seeking a Senior Consultant or Principal Agentic Designer to define and lead a new era of digital product innovation. You will drive design with AI-assisted iteration, collaborating across product, design and engineering teams to deliver complex, high-velocity projects.

You will mentor designers and design engineers, steward design systems at scale, and engage in VP-level client conversations to shape strategy and outcomes.