User Experience Designer - AI Focused

We're looking for a highly experienced User Experience Designer to help define and deliver next-generation AI-powered user experiences for IBM Power. This role requires a designer who not only delivers exceptional design work, but also leads UX direction, shapes best practices, and raises the bar for AI-driven design across the team.

You will operate with a high level of autonomy and influence, driving end-to-end design for complex, AI-enabled product experiences. You will play a key role in defining how users interact with generative AI systems-ensuring these experiences are intuitive, trustworthy, transparent, and impactful.

A critical aspect of this role is deep, hands-on expertise using modern AI tools, IBM Bob, Claude, CoPilot, etc as a core part of your design practice, from ideation through validation.

You'll join the IBM Power Design team in Austin, where we work in a hybrid environment and spend 3 days per week in office to collaborate, learn from each other, and build our design community.

What You'll Do

• Design complex, end-to-end AI-powered user experiences, from early concept through delivery
• Define and evolve interaction patterns for generative AI, including prompts, conversational UX, copilots, and agent-based workflows
• Use our AI tools extensively to explore design concepts, generate variations, simulate user interactions, and rapidly iterate on solutions
• Translate ambiguous AI capabilities into clear, usable, and business-aligned experiences
• Partner closely with Product Management, Development and AI Subject Matter Experts to shape experiences grounded in real technical constraints and opportunities
• Drive UX strategy and design direction within your product area, influencing roadmap decisions and feature prioritization
• Facilitate workshops and design explorations that integrate AI-enabled ideation and prototyping methods
• Partner with UX Research to define and validate hypotheses, particularly in emerging AI interaction models
• Contribute to and evolve AI UX best practices, patterns, and design systems within the organization
• Elevate the team through design critiques, mentorship, and thought leadership in AI experience design
• Ensure all experiences meet high standards for usability, accessibility, trust, and responsible AI design

Portfolio Expectations

Candidates at this level are expected to demonstrate depth, leadership, and AI-specific expertise through their portfolio.

Portfolio Must Include:

• 2-3 detailed case studies of AI-powered or AI-assisted experiences, showing:

• Problem framing and ambiguity resolution

• Clear articulation of AI's role in the experience

• Design decisions informed by user needs and AI constraints

• Evidence of designing one or more of the following:

• Conversational interfaces (chat, copilots)

• Prompt-driven workflows

• Agent-based or multi-step AI systems

• Demonstration of hands-on use of modern AI tools in the design process, including:

• Prompt examples and iteration strategy

• How AI outputs influenced design decisions

• Use of AI for prototyping or simulation