Manager, Software Design Engineer

You will turn promising AI concepts into tangible, interactive products that users and business stakeholders can understand, experience, and evaluate.

As a Manager, Software Design Engineer within our Global IT Technology Innovation team, you will bridge business needs, user workflows, product design, and technology.

Major accountabilities:

Rapid AI Product Prototyping

• Lead the end-to-end design and development of functional web and mobile-friendly Proof-of-Concepts and Minimum Viable Products within accelerated timelines, typically ranging from days to weeks.
• Turn abstract AI capabilities, business ideas, and user requirements into tangible product experiences that stakeholders can interact with and evaluate.
• Use practical and lightweight technical approaches to validate concepts quickly without unnecessarily over-engineering early-stage solutions.

Frontend Engineering

• Build responsive, performant, and visually engaging frontend applications using modern frameworks such as React.js and Next.js, or Vue.js and Nuxt.js.
• Develop reusable interface components, interactive workflows, dashboards, data visualisations, and streaming AI experiences.
• Maintain a strong balance between development speed, usability, visual quality, and technical credibility.

Product and Experience Design

• Design intuitive and user-centered interfaces that make complex workflows and AI capabilities easy to understand.
• Create user journeys, interactive mock-ups, working prototypes, and presentation-ready demonstrations.
• Define how users interact with AI-generated information, including how they provide inputs, review results, understand recommendations, correct outputs, and make decisions.
• Ensure that the product experience communicates the value of the AI clearly rather than exposing unnecessary technical complexity.

AI Product Integration

• Work closely with AI specialists to establishing what would be the best compromise between accuracy, performance, cost of operation, and staying in compliance with local regulations.
• Integrate AI services, APIs, models, and workflows into coherent user-facing products.
• Translate technical AI outputs into meaningful product interactions, visual explanations, decision-support tools, and human review workflows.

Specialized Knowledge:

1. Product Design and Frontend Expertise

• Strong proficiency in React.js and Next.js, including modern application architecture, or comparable experience with Vue.js and Nuxt.js.
• Deep proficiency in TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Experience with Tailwind CSS, CSS Modules, and modern UI component libraries.
• Strong understanding of user journeys, interaction design, information architecture, usability, responsive design, and visual hierarchy.

2. AI-Assisted Product Development

• Strong practical experience using tools such as Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or similar AI-assisted development tools.
• Experience using platforms such as v0, Bolt, Lovable, Figma-to-code tools, or similar systems to accelerate interface development.
• Hands-on experience integrating APIs from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or internal AI services into user-facing applications.

3. Backend and Integration Knowledge

• Working knowledge of Node.js, Express, NestJS, Python, FastAPI, Flask, or serverless functions.
• Familiarity with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, or other lightweight storage solutions.
• Experience deploying prototypes using Vercel, AWS, Azure, Docker, or comparable platforms.

Requirements:

• Degree in Engineering related subjects with at least 5 years of industry experience.
• Experience in design engineering, product engineering, forward deployed engineering, solutions engineering, innovation consulting, or rapid product development.
• A portfolio demonstrating strong interface design and functional product prototypes.
• Experience working directly with business stakeholders and end users.
• Experience conducting discovery sessions, design workshops, prototype reviews, or user testing.