Cognite makes data accessible and meaningful for our industrial customers.
The Role
Lead product design for AI experiences by turning insights into high-quality prototypes, collaborating with teams to deliver data-driven solutions while overseeing design execution from inception to launch.
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About Cognite
Embark on a transformative journey with Cognite, a global SaaS forerunner in leveraging AI and data to unravel complex business challenges through our cutting-edge offerings including Cognite Atlas AI, an industrial agent workbench, and the Cognite Data Fusion (CDF) platform. We were awarded the 2022 Technology Innovation Leader for Global Digital Industrial Platforms & Cognite was recognized as 2024 Microsoft Energy and Resources Partner of the Year. In the realm of industrial digital transformation, we stand at the forefront, reshaping the future of Oil & Gas, Chemicals, Pharma and other Manufacturing and Energy sectors. Join us in this venture where AI and data meet ingenuity, and together, we forge the path to a smarter, more connected industrial future.
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Our values
Impact: Cogniters strive to make an impact in all that they do. We are result-oriented, always asking ourselves.
Ownership: Cogniters embrace a culture of ownership. We go beyond our comfort zones to contribute to the greater good, fostering inclusivity and sharing responsibilities for challenges and success.
Relentless: Cogniters are relentless in their pursuit of innovation. We are determined and deliverable (never ruthless or reckless), facing challenges head-on and viewing setbacks as opportunities for growth.
We are seeking an exceptional Senior Product Designer to lead design for our core AI experiences built on top of our industrial data and AI platform, Cognite Data Fusion (CDF). As a Senior Product Designer, you’ll use advanced AI tools and methods to move from insight → concept → working experience with high speed and clarity. You’ll partner closely with product, engineering, strategy, and customers to uncover unmet needs, validate hypotheses, and turn ambiguous problems into elegant, testable, data-aware solutions. You’re hands-on, experimental, and fluent in AI— converting user research to compelling prototypes, and shaping trustworthy, human-in-the-loop experiences that deliver business impact.
Key Responsibilities: Product Design Excellence
- Prototype with real data and real models: connect to mock data or internal APIs; validate flows under realistic latency, streaming, and cost constraints
- Design for probabilistic systems: author patterns for imperfect answers, disagreement handling, correction, and escalation to humans-in-the-loop
- Express ideas at multiple fidelities: from prompt-generated concept boards to interactive agents, micro-workflows, and production-ready UI
- Partner with business designers and product strategists to evaluate desirability, feasibility, and viability; shape experience KPIs and success metrics
- Tell the story through compelling narratives, visuals, and prototypes that make the future feel obvious—and shippable
- Lead design sessions and facilitate cross-functional workshops
Key Responsibilities: Design Execution & Ownership
- Own outcomes end-to-end from discovery to shipped experience: research plans, flows, systems, content, and component-level detail
- Operationalize AI in the UX: define tool/agent contracts, error states, monitoring hooks, and feedback loops to continuously improve quality and cost
- Collaborate tightly with engineering to scope increments, derisk hard problems early, and land details with high craft
- Continuously validate via user research, experiment design, and rapid iteration; make evidence-based tradeoffs across user value, reliability, and cost
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of product design experience
- Fluency with AI-native workflows: prompt design, evaluation, and chaining; agents/tools; RAG; model/runtime constraints (latency, token/cost budgets).
- Hands-on prototyping with real data (e.g., connecting prototypes to APIs/SDKs, lightweight code, or no/low-code tools) to validate feasibility and UX.
- Strong user research skills: plan and run studies, synthesize qualitative & quantitative signals into clear insights and direction.
- Portfolio demonstrating end-to-end ownership of complex, data-heavy or AI-powered experiences, including trust/safety and human-in-the-loop patterns.
- Excellent collaboration & communication: proactive stakeholder management, clear storytelling, and comfort presenting to executives and customers.
Why choose Cognite? 🏆 🚀
* Join us in making a real and lasting impact in one of the most exciting and fastest-growing new software companies in the world.
* We have repeatedly demonstrated that digital transformation, when anchored on strong DataOps, drives business value and sustainability for clients and allows front-line workers, as well as domain experts, to make better decisions every single day.
* Cognite Earns 2023 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award; Recognized as a Global Leader in Energy & Resources and Industrials & Manufacturing
* Frost & Sullivan named Cognite a Technology Innovation Leader!
* Built In 2024 Best Places to Work in Austin, TX and Houston, TX
* Cognite Recognized as 2024 Microsoft Energy and Resources Partner of the Year
* Most recently Cognite Data Fusion® Achieved Industry First DNV Compliance for Digital Twins 🥇
A snapshot of our many perks and benefits as a Cogniter
* Competitive compensation
* 401(k) with employer matching
* Competitive health, dental, vision & disability coverages for employees and all dependents
* Unlimited PTO
* Paid Parental Leave Program
* Employee Referral Program
* Join a team of 60+ different nationalities 🌐 with Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) in focus 🤝.
* A highly modern and fun working environment with sublime culture across the organization, follow us on Instagram @cognitedata 📷 to know more
* Opportunity to work with and learn from some of the best people on some of the most ambitious projects found anywhere, across industries
* Join our HUB 🗣️ to be part of the conversation directly with Cogniters and our partners.
* Paid mobile phone and WiFI
All candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future company sponsorship for employment visa status.
Equal Opportunity
Cognite is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment at work and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive the same level of consideration for employment; everyone we hire will receive the same level of consideration for training, compensation, and promotion.
We ask for gender as part of our application because we want to ensure equal assessment in the recruitment process. Your answer will help us reach this commitment! However, the question about gender is optional and your choice not to answer will not affect the assessment of your application in any way.
Top Skills
AI
APIs
Data Fusion
Low-Code Tools
Prototyping Tools
Sdks
User Experience Design
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The Company
What We Do
Cognite is an AI company that delivers industrial software to improve the production efficiency of Energy, Process Manufacturing, and other industrial companies.
We deliver an Industrial DataOps platform that liberates siloed data and empowers our customers to solve some of their most complex business problems with AI-powered solutions. The typical solutions we enable drive innovative new ways to approach Data Exploration, Digital Operator Rounds, Production Optimization, Turnaround Planning, and Root Cause Analysis.
We do this by automating and scaling industrial data contextualization of various sources (such as time series, engineering diagrams, equipment logs, maintenance records, 3D facility models, images, large point clouds, and more). We use AI and other tools to find and map the meaningful relationships between the data across these various sources. In addition, we provide intuitive tools that enable efficient use of analytics and automated workflows, as well as prebuilt AI capabilities and a low-code industrial agent builder, Cognite Atlas AI, that enables AI to carry out more complex operations with greater accuracy.
Why Work With Us
Employees at Cognite are pushing the envelope with the latest cloud technology, scaling industrial applications across hundreds of assets, revolutionizing industrial data models, and working with robotics. Cogniters are fast, creative, and resilient. We keep the energy high and fun, learning from our mistakes and celebrating our victories together.
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