Product Designer

Hitachi Automotive Systems Americas, Inc.; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Flexible work options

Bonus program

Job summary

Hitachi Vantara is seeking an early-career Product Designer to join our Product Design team in the United States. You will learn from experienced designers, product managers, and engineers while crafting useful, accessible digital products.

You will balance user needs, business goals, and technical constraints, contribute to user research, wireframes, and prototypes, and help evolve our design systems across projects. Collaboration and curiosity are essential for success.

Qualifications

• Recent graduate in Product Design, Interaction Design, UX/UI Design, Human‑Computer Interaction, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Portfolio demonstrating design thinking, problem solving, and design process.
• Academic, personal, internship, or collaborative projects are welcome.
• Good understanding of user‑centred design principles.
• Familiarity with Figma or similar design and prototyping tools.
• Basic understanding of interaction design, visual design, usability, and accessibility.
• Ability to explain the reasoning and process behind design decisions, not only the final outcome.
• Good communication and collaboration skills.
• Curiosity, openness to feedback, and willingness to learn.
• Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary and collaborative environment.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with designers, product managers, engineers, and stakeholders to understand user needs, business goals, and project requirements.
• Contribute to user research, discovery activities, workshops, and usability testing.
• Help translate insights and requirements into user flows, journey maps, wireframes, prototypes, and interface designs.
• Use Figma to explore concepts, create prototypes, and contribute to production‑ready designs.
• Apply and learn from established design systems to help maintain consistency across products.
• Participate in design reviews and critiques, explaining design decisions and incorporating feedback.
• Iterate on solutions based on user feedback, data, business priorities, and technical constraints.
• Consider usability, accessibility, and inclusivity throughout the design process.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams throughout the product development lifecycle.
• Continuously develop knowledge of Product Design, UX, UI, research, accessibility, and emerging design practices.

Skills

Figma

User research

UX/UI design

Collaboration

Education

Recent graduate in Product Design or related

Tools

Prototyping tools

Design systems

Job description

Function Engineering

Our Company We’re Hitachi Vantara, the data foundation trusted by the world’s innovators. Our resilient, high-performance data infrastructure means that customers – from banks to theme parks – can focus on achieving the incredible with data. If you’ve seen the Las Vegas Sphere, you’ve seen just one example of how we empower businesses to automate, optimize, innovate – and wow their customers. Right now, we’re laying the foundation for our next wave of growth. We’re looking for people who love being part of a diverse, global team – and who get excited about making a real-world impact with data.

Job description

Role Overview

We are looking for an early-career Product Designer to join our Product Design team. This role is suited to a recent graduate or someone beginning their professional design career. You will work alongside experienced designers, product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders to help create useful, intuitive, and accessible digital products. We believe good design starts with understanding people and problems, not simply producing interfaces. You will learn to balance user needs, business goals, and technical constraints while contributing to real product initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with designers, product managers, engineers, and stakeholders to understand user needs, business goals, and project requirements.
• Contribute to user research, discovery activities, workshops, and usability testing.
• Help translate insights and requirements into user flows, journey maps, wireframes, prototypes, and interface designs.
• Use Figma to explore concepts, create prototypes, and contribute to production‑ready designs.
• Apply and learn from established design systems to help maintain consistency across products.
• Participate in design reviews and critiques, explaining design decisions and incorporating feedback.
• Iterate on solutions based on user feedback, data, business priorities, and technical constraints.
• Consider usability, accessibility, and inclusivity throughout the design process.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams throughout the product development lifecycle.
• Continuously develop knowledge of Product Design, UX, UI, research, accessibility, and emerging design practices.

Qualifications

• Recent graduate in Product Design, Interaction Design, UX/UI Design, Human‑Computer Interaction, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Portfolio demonstrating design thinking, problem solving, and design process.
• Academic, personal, internship, or collaborative projects are welcome.
• Good understanding of user‑centred design principles.
• Familiarity with Figma or similar design and prototyping tools.
• Basic understanding of interaction design, visual design, usability, and accessibility.
• Ability to explain the reasoning and process behind design decisions, not only the final outcome.
• Good communication and collaboration skills.
• Curiosity, openness to feedback, and willingness to learn.
• Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary and collaborative environment.

Nice to Have

• Exposure to user research or usability testing.
• Familiarity with design systems and component‑based design.
• Understanding of Agile or iterative product development.
• Interest in complex software, enterprise products, data, AI, or emerging technologies.

Fair Pay and Transparency

As required by the equal pay and transparency acts, the expected base salary for this position is: $55K to $75K. Expected on‑target earnings: $60K to $80K. The expected pay is determined based on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, depth of experience in the practice area.

Employees are eligible to participate in Hitachi Vantara’s bonus/variable/commission pay programs, where applicable, and are subject to the program’s conditions and restrictions.

About us

We’re a global team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion for insight to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can a make positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can inspire the future, this is the place to fulfil your purpose and achieve your potential.

Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives. Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth. We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.

How we look after you

• We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry‑leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing.
• We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent).
• We’re always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas.
• So here, you’ll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.

We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic.

Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.

We bring together the world’s greatest minds

Hitachi brings together the world’s greatest minds to help breathe life into new possibilities – and drive innovation for a better future. That’s why we look for individuals who share our pioneering spirit, have imaginative ideas and are fearless when it comes to tackling the world’s biggest challenges. Our people love technology – and they love making a difference. They have a passion for finding new solutions and working with brilliant colleagues. Every day they dedicate themselves to a huge range of exciting projects, contributing to the Hitachi vision around the globe.

From engineering new sustainability solutions that conserve water and energy to creating the infrastructure for the smart cities of tomorrow, there’s no challenge too great for our pioneers. And there’s no shortage of opportunities for you to make a difference. Come and experience the dynamic, collaborative and creative environments where your ideas are welcome and new discoveries are waiting. To help you grow to your full potential, we strive to support our employees in their career aspirations and promote the freedom to explore new horizons.

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