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.