Robots and Pencils is hiring a UX/UI Designer for a strategic role focused on translating client ambiguity into actionable product vision. We are looking for a builder, strategist, and translator who moves fluidly between research synthesis, rapid prototyping, design systems, and stakeholder conversations to create pragmatic solutions that ship and scale.
What You'll Do
- Navigate ambiguity and shape solutions by working directly with clients, product owners, and stakeholders to uncover the real problem.
- Define pragmatic solutions that ship and scale, framing product strategy as POC → Pilot → Phased Rollout.
- Build rapidly with AI-assisted tooling to create functional prototypes beyond static mockups.
- Generate interactive experiences for stakeholders to touch and react to.
- Leverage AI to accelerate research synthesis, turning interview transcripts and messy data into actionable personas, journeys, and opportunity maps.
- Prototype UI code in collaboration with the AI Engineer and Full-Stack Developer.
- Research user interaction with AI tools to understand trust, sentiment, and willingness, adapting the UI to encourage the right behaviors.
What We're Looking For
- AI-Assisted Prototyping Fluency: Integrated AI tools into design workflow to go from concept to functional prototype in hours.
- Research Synthesis Muscle: Plan and conduct user interviews, owning the full loop from facilitation to synthesizing findings into a strategic narrative.
- Ambiguity Navigation: Thrive when the brief is vague, stakeholders disagree, and the path forward isn’t obvious.
- Strategic Framing: Think in terms of phased approaches (POC, pilot, rollout) and can articulate the big vision while grounding it in what’s achievable.
Technical Stack
- Figma
- Cursor
- Claude Code
- v0
Team & Environment
UX drives the design-to-development process from the start, collaborating with AI Engineers and Full-Stack Developers.
Robots and Pencils is an equal opportunity employer.
