The Staff Product Designer is a strategic, hands-on design leader who shapes complex product experiences across multiple engagements. Focused on AI-enabled experiences, this role translates ambiguous problems into clear product direction at the intersection of user needs, product strategy, technology, and business outcomes. Working with product management, engineering, and UX leadership, this designer leads through expertise, facilitation, and high-quality design execution rather than direct people management.
Key ResponsibilitiesProduct Strategy and Facilitation- Translate customer needs, business goals, and technical constraints into clear product opportunities, experience principles, and measurable outcomes.
- Lead cross-functional teams through story-mapping workshops to align on user journeys, define scope, and prioritize incremental delivery.
- Apply systems thinking to connect near-term product decisions to longer-term platform and portfolio strategy.
- Define human-centered interaction models for AI-enabled products, including conversational, recommendation, and decision-support experiences.
- Balance automation with human oversight, transparency, and user control while applying responsible AI principles throughout design and evaluation.
- Help teams identify where AI creates meaningful value and use AI-assisted tools to accelerate exploration while maintaining human judgment.
- Lead design from early product definition through detailed interaction design, creating journey maps, workflows, prototypes, and production-ready specifications.
- Design cohesive experiences across products, workflows, and user roles, applying established design-system patterns and proposing improvements.
- Plan and conduct user research, including stakeholder interviews, usability tests, and focus groups, to validate design direction and uncover unmet needs.
- Use research insights, product data, and business evidence to inform and evaluate design decisions.
- Partner with engineering to ensure implementations align with approved designs, intended workflows, accessibility requirements, and design-system standards.
- Review prototypes, builds, and pull-request artifacts to identify experience risks before release.
- Establish scalable design-quality practices, strengthening connections among Figma specifications, reusable components, acceptance criteria, and implemented experiences.
- Demonstrate comfort working in code-based and AI-assisted development environments to build, edit, or refine functional prototypes and collaborate more effectively with engineering.
- Serve as a strategic design partner to product and engineering leaders, aligning customer value, business priorities, and technical feasibility.
- Communicate product and experience strategy clearly to technical, business, and executive audiences, making assumptions, dependencies, and tradeoffs visible.
- Provide critique and mentorship that strengthen the judgment and craft of other designers, and contribute reusable guidance that improves delivery across the organization.
- Bachelor's degree in design, human-computer interaction, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 8 years of professional experience in product design, interaction design, or user experience, including complex enterprise or platform-level initiatives.
- A portfolio demonstrating problem framing, interaction design, systems thinking, prototyping, and product impact.
- Experience partnering with product management and engineering throughout the product lifecycle, including design systems and design-to-code workflows.
- Demonstrated ability to influence product direction without formal authority.
- Strong working knowledge of accessibility standards and inclusive design practices.
- Experience contributing to design systems and collaborating with engineering on reusable components.
- Experience using product analytics, customer feedback, and other evidence to evaluate product outcomes and inform design decisions.
Preferred Qualifications
- Working knowledge of front-end technologies, including HTML and CSS, with the ability to understand how interface designs translate into implemented experiences.
- Experience using code-based and AI-assisted development environments to build, edit, or refine functional prototypes.
GE Vernova offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE Vernova is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
GE Vernova will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).
Relocation Assistance Provided: No
For candidates applying to a U.S. based position, the pay range for this position is between $105,400.00 and $175,600.00. The Company pays a geographic differential of 110%, 120% or 130% of salary in certain areas. The specific pay offered may be influenced by a variety of factors, including the candidate’s experience, education, and skill set.
Bonus eligibility: discretionary annual bonus.
This posting is expected to remain open for at least seven days after it was posted on September 22, 2026.
Available benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage; access to Health Coach from GE Vernova, a 24/7 nurse-based resource; and access to the Employee Assistance Program, providing 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services. Retirement benefits include the GE Vernova Retirement Savings Plan, a tax-advantaged 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions, as well as access to Fidelity resources and financial planning consultants. Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability benefits, life insurance, 12 paid holidays, and permissive time off.
GE Vernova Inc. or its affiliates (collectively or individually, “GE Vernova”) sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs GE Vernova reserves the right to terminate, amend, suspend, replace, or modify its benefit plans and programs at any time and for any reason, in its sole discretion. No individual has a vested right to any benefit under a GE Vernova welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in design, human-computer interaction, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- At least 8 years of professional experience in product design, interaction design, or user experience
- Experience with complex enterprise or platform-level initiatives
- Portfolio demonstrating problem framing, interaction design, systems thinking, prototyping, and product impact
- Experience partnering with product management and engineering throughout the product lifecycle
- Experience with design systems and design-to-code workflows
- Ability to influence product direction without formal authority
- Strong working knowledge of accessibility standards and inclusive design practices
- Experience contributing to design systems and collaborating with engineering on reusable components
- Experience using product analytics, customer feedback, and other evidence to evaluate product outcomes and inform design decisions
- Working knowledge of front-end technologies, including HTML and CSS
- Experience using code-based and AI-assisted development environments to build, edit, or refine functional prototypes
GE Vernova Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about GE Vernova and has not been reviewed or approved by GE Vernova.
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Retirement Support — The 401(k) plan includes company matching contributions and additional company retirement contributions, with access to Fidelity resources and financial planning consultants. Feedback suggests this structure supports long-term savings beyond a basic match.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is available with flexible, continuous or non-continuous usage, and is complemented by adoption resources and Work/Life Connections guidance. Maternity leave is described as extended relative to typical workplace norms.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off programs include 12 paid holidays, permissive time off for many salaried roles, and dedicated personal, illness, and caregiving time for U.S. new hires. Some hourly roles start with a defined PTO bank, while other roles may offer unlimited time off.
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What We Do
GE Vernova is a planned purpose-built company on a mission to electrify the planet while simultaneously working to decarbonize it. If we want our energy future to be different…we must be different. Our mission is embedded in our name. We retain our treasured legacy, “GE,” in our name as an enduring and hard-earned badge of quality and ingenuity. “Ver” / “verde” signal Earth’s verdant and lush ecosystems. “Nova,” from the Latin “novus,” nods to a new, innovative era of lower carbon energy that GE Vernova will help deliver. GE Vernova brings together GE’s portfolio of energy businesses including Power, Wind, Electrification and Digital businesses. With focus, GE Vernova is accelerating the path to more reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy, while helping our customers power economies and deliver the electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life. Together, we have The Energy to Change the World.
Why Work With Us
Join our team, to evolve and grow, surrounded by some of the brightest minds in the industry who help you get better every day. You’ll get the chance to rewrite the rules, work on cutting-edge technology, and be part of a global team for positive change.
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