Overview
Product Design Engineer Jobs in United Kingdom at PE Global
Title: Product Design Engineer
Company: PE Global
Location: United Kingdom
PE Global are currently recruiting for a Product Design Engineer for a contract role with a leading global travel & hospitality technology client. – Fully remote within the UK.
This is not a graphic design or traditional UX role. The work sits at the intersection of employee experience and AI-native product design, and you'll be working directly in our codebase alongside AI engineers as a peer. That means thinking beyond screens and static flows, into the emerging vocabulary of AI interaction: how do you design for uncertainty, latency, and outputs that aren't fully predictable?
Job Responsibilities
- Help define the design language for our AI-native employee tools, building on our Design Language System where it fits and establishing new patterns, components, and principles where the demands of employee experience require something distinctly our own.
- Design and iterate on experiences for AI-powered tools across EX's four signature services: Gathering, Onboarding, Performance Management, and Workforce Planning.
- Design, prototype, and productize AI-powered experiences across EX's four signature services (Onboarding, Gathering, Performance Management, etc.), using Figma, Claude Code, and our broader toolset.
- Hands-on experience designing for agentic or AI-native interfaces, including multi-step task flows, proactive systems, and experiences where the user is collaborating with AI across input types (text, voice, and ambient) as products evolve beyond traditional screen-based flows.
- Familiarity with how LLM-based systems actually behave – including orchestration patterns, model handoff, and how to design meaningful user control when the system is acting on someone's behalf.
- Partner with AI engineers and product managers on EX's internal production platform (Hyperloop), bridging design intent and technical execution through the full build cycle.
- Conduct lightweight usability testing with our employees and managers to validate and iterate on design decisions.
- Contribute to the EX AI knowledge base by ensuring tool documentation and user-facing content is clear, well-organized, and visually consistent.
Requirements
- 5+ years of UX/UI, product design, design engineering, or hybrid design/frontend role, with a portfolio that includes web application work
- Expertise with Figma, specifically experience designing, modifying, and maintaining component specs and systems
- Strong React proficiency and working knowledge of HTML and CSS; you should be comfortable working directly in a codebase, contributing to pull requests, and collaborating with engineers as a technical peer
- Experience designing AI-native or conversational interfaces, with a solid understanding of the design challenges unique to LLM-powered products: streaming responses, ambiguous outputs, multi-turn flows, and building trust with users when the system is inherently dynamic; experience with the Claude API or similar is a strong plus
- Strong instincts around information architecture and emerging AI interaction patterns, informed by hands-on experience with tools like the Google AI Suite, Claude Enterprise, Glean, or similar
- Experience designing for non-technical end users in an enterprise or internal tools context, with the craft of consumer-grade products
- Comfort moving fast with incomplete information, our tools and user needs are evolving and your designs will too.
Nice to have
- Prior experience designing a formal design system, not just consuming or contributing to it.
- Experience with HR tech, people operations tools, or workplace experience products.
- Experience working in or alongside a platform engineering team.
Interested candidates should submit an updated CV.
***Please note our client cannot assist with any visa sponsorship and candidates must have the correct visa to live and work in UK***
