Senior Product Designer – AI Innovation

About Staffbase

We inspire people to achieve great things together. Our mission is to help organizations unlock the power of inspirational communication. Our award-winning communications channels - intranet, employee app and email - deliver experiences that drive engagement and inspire hearts and minds.

We're headquartered in Chemnitz, Germany, with offices in many locations throughout the world, including New York, London, Berlin and Dresden. Our international team counts more than 750 employees from 45+ nationalities and we have a growing base of 2200+ customers that want to transform their employee experience. We are rapidly scaling, post-Series E ($115 million funding), have strong-growing revenue, and our customers love us.

We're looking for a visionary Senior Product Designer to act as the design co-founder for our next big AI innovation. This is a high-impact, 9-month fixed-term role where you'll be part of a small, high-performing "startup within the company" team, working from zero to launch, with the freedom to shape the product and the process.

Reporting directly to the VP of Product Experience, you'll work side-by-side with product, engineering, and AI specialists to take bold ideas from concept to reality. This role demands curiosity, creativity, and a bias for action — whether you're speaking to customers, vibe-coding interactive prototypes, or iterating on designs at lightning speed.

What you'll be doing

• Be the design co-founder: Take ownership of the product's design vision, strategy, and execution from day one
• Lead end-to-end design: Own the process from exploration to polished delivery — from early-stage whiteboarding to high-fidelity, production-ready designs
• Work in startup mode: Operate with speed, agility, and a bias for action. Rapidly prototype, test, and iterate to uncover opportunities and validate solutions
• Collaborate deeply: Partner with engineers, product managers, data scientists, and researchers to ship high-impact features quickly
• Be hands-on with technology: Build interactive prototypes using vibe-coding tools to bring concepts to life in ways that static mocks can't
• Champion customer insight: Regularly connect with users, conduct interviews, and gather feedback to ground design decisions in real-world needs
• Shape the design culture: Bring your experience, taste, and craft to set a high bar for design quality, innovation, and user experience
  
  

What you need to be successful

• 8+ years of product design experience, including significant work on zero-to-one or early-stage products
• Strong visual, interaction, and UX design abilities, plus confidence in building interactive prototypes using vibe-coding tools
• Experience designing for AI-powered products — especially in conversational AI — is highly valued
• Comfortable collaborating with engineers and experimenting with code when needed
• Thrives in environments where fast iteration, experimentation, and adaptability are the norm
• Skilled at uncovering and synthesizing user needs into elegant, impactful product experiences
• Comfortable making decisions, taking responsibility, and driving work forward with minimal oversight
• Excited to help build not just a product, but a product vision and culture from scratch
  
  

This isn't a "keep the lights on" design job — it's a foundational role in creating a flagship AI product that could redefine our future. You'll have the freedom and support to shape the work, the product, and the way we design — all in a fast-moving innovation sprint.

What you'll get

• Competitive Compensation - we offer attractive salary packages including LTIP (unit-based Long Term Incentive Plan)
• Flexibility - we offer flexible working time models and the option of hybrid work, and support this with a yearly flex work allowance of €1560
• Growth Budget - all employees get a yearly budget for external training of €1000 and one day off for growth per year (increase to two days in 2nd year)
• Recharge - with 31 vacation days annually (incl. one floating holiday), plus pro rata fully paid Fridays off during August
• Wellbeing - Monthly Wellbeing Allowance €35, from fitness to mental health, hobbies to relaxation
• Support - we're offering a company pension scheme
• Health - The offices are equipped with fruits, drinks and snacks and ergonomic workplaces
• Volunteers Day - you'll get one day off per year for supporting a social project
• Employee Referral Program - one of your friends is a fit to one of our full-time openings? Refer them and get a referral bonus paid