AI-Driven Digital Product Designer — Discovery to Prototype

Urban Ridge Supplies; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits

Job summary

Ajaia is hiring a Digital Product Designer to run discovery and design on client engagements and on Ajaia's own product suite. You will talk to the people who do the work, observe tasks, and translate insights into journeys, wireframes, and prototypes for engineers to build from.

You will own the design standards across projects and ensure production-ready outputs. The role is on-site in New York and requires hands-on research, rapid prototyping, and a strong fluency with AI tools to move from

Qualifications

• Runs discovery yourself: interviews, usability testing, and reading behavioral data.
• Moves from synthesis to a working prototype fast.
• Designs the human checkpoints into a workflow.
• Comfortable working directly alongside engineers through build.
• AI fluent: uses AI daily to research, synthesize, and prototype.

Responsibilities

• Run discovery on client engagements: interview the people doing the work, watch them do it, and find the gap between what they say and what they actually do.
• Talk to users of Ajaia's own products the same way. The product suite is not exempt from the same rigor client work gets.
• Synthesize findings into what people actually need, stated separately from what they asked for, with the evidence for each.
• Design the solution: user journeys, wireframes, and prototypes that an engineer can build from without guessing.
• Decide where a human has to sign off inside a workflow, and design that checkpoint into the product rather than bolting it on afterward.
• Test designs with real users before code exists, not after.
• Push back on a stakeholder's feature list when the evidence points somewhere else, and explain why in terms they can act on.
• Own the design standard across Ajaia's product suite so a designer joining engagement three does not have to reinvent decisions made on engagement one.
• Prototype with AI tools as a default, not a novelty. Know when the AI-native path saves real time and when it produces something you have to rebuild by hand anyway.
• Hand off design work in a state an engineer can actually start from, and stay involved enough during the build to catch it when implementation drifts from the intent.

Skills

Discovery research

Usability testing

Prototype design

Synthesis to prototype

AI fluency

Education

Bachelor's degree preferred

Tools

AI tools

Job description

Ajaia is hiring a Digital Product Designer to run discovery and design on client engagements and on Ajaia's own product suite. You will talk to the people who do the work, observe tasks, and translate insights into journeys, wireframes, and prototypes for engineers to build from.

You will own the design standards across projects and ensure production-ready outputs. The role is on-site in New York and requires hands-on research, rapid prototyping, and a strong fluency with AI tools to move from