Product Design Engineer

About the Role

You’ll own the design of PlayerZero’s product experience, making complex software workflows understandable and helping people work effectively with AI agents. This is a senior, hands-on individual contributor role spanning product UI/UX, design systems, and user research.

Your early priorities will be to establish a consistent design system across the application and define patterns for human-agent collaboration. You’ll explore how people delegate work, understand an agent’s progress, review results, and decide when to intervene. As the platform’s capabilities evolve, you’ll create a coherent experience that can evolve with them.

You’ll develop a clear design vision and work closely with leadership, Product, and Engineering to carry it through to the details of what ships. Functional prototyping is central to the role; shipping production frontend code is not required.

What You Will Do

• Own the product experience. Take work from understanding the problem through exploration, detailed design, prototyping, and implementation review.
• Build a coherent design system. Establish shared components, interaction patterns, and guidance that improve consistency and help the team build efficiently.
• Shape human-agent collaboration. Design experiences that make agent actions, progress, outputs, and limitations understandable, with clear ways for users to guide and review the work.
• Simplify complex workflows. Connect individual features into intuitive journeys, with thoughtful information architecture, navigation, and interaction design.
• Prototype to learn. Build functional prototypes to explore behavior, test assumptions, and work through design decisions with users and teammates.
• Ground decisions in customer understanding. Lead focused research and usability testing, combining what you learn with product judgment and design craft.
• Partner through delivery. Work with Product and Engineering to balance user needs, product direction, and technical constraints. Review implementation and refine the experience after launch.

What You Bring

• A strong portfolio of shipped digital products demonstrating systems thinking, interaction design, and visual craft.
• Experience owning complex product design and working independently, from an ambiguous problem through a detailed, usable solution.
• The ability to connect individual interactions into a coherent system and create patterns that extend across features and workflows.
• Strong judgment in hierarchy, typography, layout, and interaction behavior, with attention to accessibility, loading states, errors, and other details that shape the experience.
• The ability to build functional prototypes using the tools best suited to exploring and communicating an idea.
• Experience using customer research and feedback to inform decisions, evaluate tradeoffs, and improve what ships.
• Clear communication and a collaborative approach to developing ideas, giving feedback, and working through constraints.
• Ownership and follow-through: you identify what needs attention, bring others into the work, and stay engaged through delivery.
• Experience with collaboration platforms, developer tools, complex enterprise products, or AI-powered experiences is particularly valuable. We welcome backgrounds in product design, design engineering, and related disciplines.

What Success Looks Like

• PlayerZero feels more consistent and intuitive across the application.
• Shared design patterns help the team ship cohesive experiences, and customers can understand, direct, and review agent work with confidence.
• Your design vision translates into shipped improvements and evolves as we learn from users.