Product Design Technologist Sr

• Build rapid prototypes ranging from interactive design explorations to coded, production-quality UI implementations.
• Translate ambiguous product concepts into concrete interaction models, workflows, and UI patterns.
• Partner with Engineering to align prototypes with scalable architecture, APIs, performance standards, and accessibility requirements.
• Accelerate decision-making through iterative testing and refinement.

• Prototype AI-driven workflows such as assistants, guided task completion, conversational interactions, and agent-based automation.
• Design human-in-the-loop patterns that maintain transparency, user control, and review before execution.
• Implement structured outputs, tool/function calling, and workflow orchestration within prototypes.
• Apply grounding and retrieval strategies to ensure generated outputs are accurate and contextual.
• Contribute to evaluation frameworks that measure usefulness, correctness, safety, and latency.

• Contribute to and extend Dayforce’s design system, including components, tokens, patterns, and documentation.
• Build reference implementations and living prototypes that support reuse across product teams.
• Strengthen design-to-development workflows, ensuring alignment between Figma assets and production components.
• Advocate for accessibility (WCAG compliance), responsive design, and performance best practices.

• Incorporate responsible AI principles into product interactions, including transparency, security, and privacy safeguards.
• Collaborate with Legal, Security, Privacy, and AI teams to ensure AI features meet enterprise compliance standards.
• Ensure AI-powered workflows appropriately reflect permissions and sensitive people data constraints.

• Mentor designers and engineers on prototyping techniques and AI UX patterns.
• Share best practices for AI-assisted development and modern front-end tooling.
• Influence product and engineering decisions through technical credibility and execution excellence.

• 6+ years of experience in Design Technologist, UX Engineer, Front-End Prototyper, or similar hybrid design/engineering roles.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating shipped products and high-fidelity prototypes.
• Proficiency in: TypeScript / JavaScript, Modern HTML and CSS, React or comparable modern UI frameworks, API integration and front-end state management
• Experience collaborating closely with product and engineering teams in enterprise SaaS environments.
• Working knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG) and inclusive design principles.
• AI Experience: Hands-on experience prototyping LLM-powered features. Familiarity with:Prompt/system instruction design and iteration, Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) concepts, Structured outputs and tool/function calling, Agent-style workflow orchestration, Experience evaluating AI outputs for accuracy, reliability, and user experience quality, Ability to responsibly use AI-assisted coding and design tools while maintaining engineering rigor.

• Experience building or maintaining enterprise design systems.
• Background in HR, payroll, workforce management, or highly regulated enterprise platforms.
• Experience designing conversational UX or multi-step automated workflows.
• Familiarity with experimentation frameworks and UX research collaboration.
• Experience creating internal tooling or prototyping frameworks to scale design velocity.
• Systems thinking and architectural awareness
• Strong interaction design instincts
• Technical depth with pragmatic delivery focus
• Clear cross-functional communication
• Ownership and accountability

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