What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Design Engineer, Employee Experience AI position at Russell, Tobin & Associates?
Role: Product Design Engineer – Employee Experience AI
Location: Remote
Duration: 6 Months Contract (Potential Extension/Conversion Possible)
Portfolio Required
About the Team
The team is building AI-powered internal tools focused on improving how employees and managers work across the organization. The team operates like an internal AI product startup, partnering closely with engineering, design, and HR stakeholders to create next-generation employee experiences powered by AI.
This team is heavily focused on AI-native product development and is looking for someone who can help define how AI experiences should feel, behave, and scale across internal products.
About the Role
This is not a traditional UX or visual design role.
The team is looking for a highly collaborative Product Design Engineer / AI Product Designer who can both design and implement AI-powered experiences. The ideal candidate understands how modern AI systems behave and can design workflows around ambiguity, unpredictability, latency, conversational interactions, and agent-based experiences.
This person will work directly alongside AI engineers inside the codebase and help define reusable interaction patterns, components, and design systems for AI-native employee tools.
The role is highly cross-functional and fast-moving, requiring strong communication skills, systems thinking, and comfort working in ambiguous environments where priorities and product directions evolve quickly.
What will you do:
- Design and help build AI-powered internal employee tools and workflows
- Create AI-native interaction patterns for conversational and agent-based systems
- non-deterministic AI behavior
- streaming responses
- multi-step workflows
- latency and edge cases
- AI handoffs and orchestration flows
- Work directly inside the frontend codebase alongside developers
- Build reusable design systems, components, and patterns for internal AI products
- Prototype rapidly using tools like Figma, Claude Code, and modern AI-assisted development workflows
- Collaborate with Product Managers, AI Engineers, Developers, Technical Writers, and Design stakeholders
- Present ideas and influence stakeholders across cross-functional teams
- Help establish internal AI design standards and best practices
- 5 years of experience in:
- Product Design
- Design Engineering
- UX Engineering
- AI Product Design
- Frontend-focused Product Design roles
- Strong portfolio showcasing:
- AI product experiences
- interactive workflows
- design systems
- shipped digital products
- prototypes and/or personal AI projects
- Strong experience with:
- Figma
- React
- HTML/CSS
- Tailwind or modern frontend frameworks
- Design Systems / Component Libraries
- Comfortable contributing directly within a frontend codebase
- Strong understanding of AI-native product design concepts
- Experience designing:
- conversational interfaces
- AI copilots
- agent workflows
- LLM-powered products
- Ability to design through ambiguity and evolving requirements
- Strong communication and presentation skills
- Ability to explain design rationale, tradeoffs, and systems thinking clearly
Preferred / Nice to Have
- Experience building or owning formal design systems
- Exposure to tools like Claude, OpenAI APIs, Glean, or similar AI platforms
- Background in HR tech, workplace tools, or employee experience products
- Experience working alongside platform or infrastructure engineering teams
Russell Tobin offers eligible employee’s comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, and vision plans), supplemental coverage (accident insurance, critical illness insurance and hospital indemnity), 401(k)-retirement savings, life & disability insurance, an employee assistance program, legal support, auto, home insurance, pet insurance and employee discounts with preferred vendors.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Russell Tobin is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of the race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, reproductive health decision making, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
Fair Chance Employment
Russell Tobin is a Fair Chance employer. We consider all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable state and local Fair Chance laws and ordinances, including, the California Fair Chance Act and all applicable local Fair Chance ordinances.
Accommodations
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or interview process, or to perform the essential functions of this role, please contact us.
Only applicable for San Francisco Candidates: Under the San Francisco Lactation in the Workplace Ordinance, we will provide written notice of lactation accommodation rights, and this notice will automatically be given upon hiring, any inquiry of parental leave or lactation accommodation.
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