Robots and Pencils is looking for a UX/UI Designer for a strategic role focused on translating client ambiguity into actionable vision and shipping products through phased rollouts. You will act as a builder, strategist, and translator, moving fluidly between research, prototyping, and client conversations.

What You'll Do

Navigate ambiguity and shape solutions by working directly with clients and stakeholders to uncover the real problem.
Define pragmatic solutions that ship and scale, framing product strategy as proof-of-concept to pilot to phased rollout.
Build rapidly with AI-assisted tooling to create functional prototypes that go beyond static mockups.
Generate interactive experiences for stakeholders to touch and react to.
Leverage AI to accelerate research synthesis, turning transcripts and data into personas, journeys, and opportunity maps.
Design in Figma and leverage/manage a design system.
Facilitate research sessions with end users and act on feedback.
Learn new AI tooling to speed up design and development collaboration.

What We're Looking For

AI-Assisted Prototyping Fluency: Integrated AI tools into your design workflow as a core capability. Can go from concept to functional prototype in hours.
Research Synthesis Muscle: Can plan and conduct user interviews and own the full loop from facilitating research to synthesizing it 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, not final deliverables. Can articulate the big vision and break it into achievable steps.