Appsfactory GmbH is hiring a Senior Product Designer for AI and digital experiences. This permanent, full-time role is remote-first for the US design team, with the position based in Southern California and travel to US client sites as engagements require.
Role Overview
In this position, you will design digital products and AI-enabled experiences while collaborating with designers, strategists, researchers, developers, and clients. The work spans end-to-end concept, exploration, design, and delivery, with a focus on turning user needs, business goals, and technical requirements into thoughtful, usable experiences.
Responsibilities
- Design intuitive, engaging digital products, websites, applications, and services.
- Translate user needs, business goals, and technical requirements into experiences that fit real contexts.
- Create journeys, information architecture, wireframes, interactive prototypes, and high-fidelity designs.
- Develop and evolve design systems, component libraries, and visual languages with accessibility and scalability in mind.
- Generate original concepts, collaborate closely with developers, and participate in research, testing, and iteration.
- Integrate AI tools into research, ideation, prototyping, content creation, and production workflows.
- Experiment with generative AI to expand creative options and improve efficiency.
- Conceptualize and prototype AI-enabled experiences, including conversational interfaces, intelligent assistants, personalized experiences, and adaptive interactions.
- Explore how AI can solve real user problems, working with designers and developers to validate feasibility.
- Share effective AI workflows and evaluate outputs critically for quality, accessibility, privacy, reliability, and human oversight.
- Own assigned design workstreams from exploration through delivery.
- Contribute to workshops and client presentations, clearly explaining design decisions.
- Mentor less-experienced designers through collaboration and feedback.
- Work independently, challenge assumptions constructively, and contribute to a low-ego, multidisciplinary team.
Requirements
- Approximately 5–8 years of experience in product design, digital design, UX/UI, or a related discipline.
- A strong portfolio demonstrating visual craft, interaction design, systems thinking, and digital products.
- Advanced Figma proficiency, including components, variables, prototyping, and design systems.
- Understanding of user-centered design, information architecture, responsive design, and accessibility.
- Experience taking products from concept through implementation with product and engineering teams.
- Strong typography, composition, visual storytelling, and communication skills.
- Hands-on experience using generative AI in your design process.
- Familiarity with tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Figma AI, Cursor, or comparable emerging tools.
- Genuine curiosity about AI’s impact on digital products, creativity, and human-computer interaction.
- Interest in AI-generated content, conversational experiences, intelligent recommendations, and automated workflows.
- Willingness to experiment, learn, share discoveries, and distinguish useful applications from hype.
- Creative, curious, self-starting, collaborative, and receptive to feedback.
- Comfortable with ambiguity, iteration, ownership, and hands-on design work.
- Comfortable working across US and European teams.
- Based in Southern California and available to travel to US client sites as engagements require.
Technologies
- Figma
- ChatGPT
- Claude
- Figma AI
- Cursor
Location
Los Angeles, CA (Hybrid)
Remote-first within the US design team, based in Southern California, with travel to client sites across the United States as needed.
Salary
USD 110,000–125,000 per year, depending on experience and qualifications.
Employment Type
Full-time, permanent.
Benefits
- Permanent, full-time, remote-first role with the US design team.
- Annual salary range of $110,000 to $125,000, depending on experience and qualifications.
- Defined contribution toward medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus access to a healthcare FSA.
- 401(k) plan with a 2% company match, and eligibility for a discretionary year-end bonus based on company performance.
- Flexible PTO policy coordinated around client and team commitments, plus eleven paid holidays and a year-end office closure.
- Monthly internet and wellness stipends, plus professional-development support.
- Opportunity to lead visible, strategically important product, design-system, and AI-enabled transformation engagements.
- International portfolio and regular collaboration with colleagues across Europe and the United States.
- High-craft, low-ego team with direct access to partners and senior leadership, real autonomy, constructive feedback, and space to help shape how the team works.
- Multidisciplinary team actively building AI into design, strategy, research, engineering, and delivery.
Company Context
Appsfactory GmbH is Germany’s premier full-service digital agency, supporting digital products across their full life-cycle. The role operates within the Design department.
Edenspiekermann is mentioned as an independent design consultancy with 40+ years of experience helping world-leading organizations invent, build, and evolve products, with a Product Strategy practice working at the intersection of market insight, design excellence, and AI-driven development.
Applicants are welcome regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic or social origin, religion or beliefs, disability, age, sexual orientation, or identity. The application notes indicate you do not need to check every box to be considered.