Principal UX Designer

About the role

As the Principal UX Designer, you will serve as the specialist authority ensuring that AI projects are user-centric and trustworthy. You will operate at the intersection of client engagements and the broader design practice, defining interaction patterns for agentic systems and establishing design governance across the organization. Your role involves translating deep UX expertise into real-world impact for a diverse range of clients.

Responsibilities

• Own the user experience strategy across demanding client AI engagements from discovery through handover.
• Shape UX and CX strategy by framing problems and conducting evidence-based research with operators and engineers.
• Define interaction patterns for agentic systems including human-in-the-loop approval, latency communication, and error states.
• Set standards for designing complex, operationally critical systems with dense data and long-lived workflows.
• Drive the adoption of shared design systems and component libraries across project portfolios.
• Establish DesignOps and design governance methodologies to scale experience maturity and ensure accessibility compliance.
• Evolve experience standards and raise the craft bar through review, critique, and mentoring.

Required skills

• UX Design
• Design Leadership
• DesignOps
• Interaction Design
• Visual Design
• Product Design
• Accessibility
• WCAG 2.2 AA

Nice to have

• AI Design
• Data-heavy product design
• German language

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in experience design and design leadership

Benefits

• Flexible development budget
• Sports membership
• JobRad bike leasing
• Sabbatical option
• PME Familienservice
• Mobility budget
• Workation

About the Company

The appliedAI Initiative elevates Europe’s industry to become shapers in the age of AI through an ecosystem of partners, programs, and services. The team specializes in the applicability of AI solutions, focusing on building trustworthy AI for industry and beyond.