Robots & Pencils
Staff UX/UI Designer
RemoteColombia, Argentina only
- Role
- Design
- Experience
- Staff
Salary not disclosed
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No BS summary
Senior UX/UI designer with 6+ years of experience, expert in Figma, design systems, and UX research, plus AI-assisted design tools. Based in Colombia or Argentina. Leads design strategy, owns end-to-end design, and mentors designers.
Core skills
Figma
Required skills
Claude
What you'll do
- Define design strategy and direction for major engagements, leading end-to-end design across complex, multi-platform products
- Own design system architecture and governance, ensuring consistency, scalability, and flexibility across products and teams
- Lead UX research strategy — selecting methodologies, embedding research into the delivery process, and ensuring insights influence product direction
- Champion AI-powered design workflows and lead their adoption on engagements, driving efficiency and creative quality (e.g., Figma AI, Claude)
- Drive design operations and process improvements that improve how the Experience team delivers and collaborates
- Lead internal initiatives including marketing, business development, and the evolution of the design practice
- Partner with leadership and clients on design direction, serving as a senior design voice at the engagement level
- Collaborate closely with engineers, strategists, and delivery leads to align design decisions with technical and business realities
- Lead workshops, design sprints, and collaborative sessions with clients and cross-functional teams
- Mentor junior and mid-level designers, helping them grow their craft, confidence, and professional practice
- Establish design quality standards and critique culture that lift the team’s collective craft
- Make design decisions with thoughtful consideration of tradeoffs across usability, business goals, and technical constraints
What they require
- 6+ years of professional UX/UI design experience with a strong product background
- Expert Figma proficiency with design system architecture experience
- Deep experience leading design systems at scale, including architecture, governance, and cross-team adoption
- Deep UX research experience including research strategy, methodology selection, and translating insights into product direction
- Experience defining design strategy for complex products or engagements
- Experience presenting and influencing at the leadership and client level
- Track record of mentoring designers and lifting team craft
- Strong experience with AI-assisted design tools and leading their adoption within a team (e.g., Figma AI, Claude)
- Experience facilitating workshops, design needs, and collaborative sessions with clients and cross-functional teams
- A doer: you see something broken and fix it
- A fast learner who knows you don't know everything; the AI landscape changes weekly
- Direct, honest, and comfortable with hard conversations
- Obsessed with craft and detail
- Ownership: honors commitments, admits mistakes fast, and backs teammates
- Resourceful when budget, timeline, or team is tight
- Treats clients' businesses like your own
- Service design experience, design ops leadership, or multi-platform design depth is a plus
Robots & Pencils designs AI systems for a human world, pairing engineering with creativity and shipping production-ready AI systems for real workflows.
IT ServicesMid-size
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