Senior AI UX Designer (f/m/d)

OVERVIEW

At Aleph Alpha, we are shaping the future of AI with European values at the core. The heart of our product is developing cutting-edge generative AI solutions with a strong emphasis on sovereignty, ethical development, and societal benefit. Our generative AI offering empowers businesses, governments, and individuals to achieve their full potential.

TEAM

To bring our vision to life, we work closely with our partners to unlock the transformative power of generative AI. Our Customer Team empowers them by leveraging Aleph Alpha’s sovereign solution stack, ensuring they can harness AI’s full potential with confidence and security.

As our Senior AI UX Designer (f/m/d), you will contribute to implementing a state-of-the-art user experience and maximize end user productivity to scale up our business according to the company targets.  At the same time, you will support sales by quickly creating attractive prototypes, productizing proofs of concept, and feeding learnings from innovation projects back into the product.

You will work closely with Engineering and Pre-Sales teams to spearhead most cutting-edge AI solutions and support Aleph-Alpha’s delivery.

Your responsibilities:

• Deliver and refine advanced design artifacts (wireframes, user stories, user journeys, mockups, prototypes) optimized for diverse devices, platforms, and accessibility standards.
• Define and champion user experience strategy by developing and refining user personas, journeys, flows, wireframes, mockups, and prototypes that communicate design direction and guide cross-functional alignment.
• Partner with product leadership, engineers, pre-sales engineers and end users to co-create solutions that balance usability, visual design, technical feasibility, and business objectives. Serve as the voice of the user in strategic decision-making.
• Identify complex design challenges and lead the creation of innovative, scalable, and elegant solutions that elevate overall user experience and drive measurable product outcomes.
• Foster a culture of user-centered design, guiding teams to rapidly test, validate, and iterate on ideas while embedding feedback loops into the development process.
• Ensure final designs align with product vision, business objectives, and long-term strategy, influencing roadmaps and design system evolution.
• Stay ahead of industry trends, design best practices, and competitive landscapes to proactively inform product strategy and position solutions as leaders in the market.

Your profile:

• Experience as a UI/UX or Digital Product Designer with a strong portfolio of impactful projects — ideally in B2B or enterprise SaaS — tackling complex technical challenges.
• Confidence working with industry-standard design tools like Figma, Miro, Lovable, Jira, and GenAI tools.
• Understanding of HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript to support smooth collaboration with Frontend Engineers.
• A deep appreciation for design thinking and user research, with the ability to turn insights into clear product strategies and intuitive user experiences.
• Experience designing workflows for Machine Learning and Generative AI, with awareness of accuracy, explainability, bias, human-in-the-loop, and mapping business logic into user flows and pipelines.
• Skilled at prioritizing and scoping features with an MVP mindset, balancing user value, business needs, and technical feasibility.
• Comfortable leading client conversations, facilitating workshops, and managing diverse stakeholders, with strong consultative and partnership skills.
• A background in Design, HCI, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience). Strong problem-solving, analytical thinking, and communication skills.
• Fluency in both German and English.

What you can expect from us:

• Become part of an AI revolution!
• 30 days of paid vacation
• Access to a variety of fitness & wellness offerings via Wellhub
• Mental health support through nilo.health
• JobRad® Bike Lease
• Substantially subsidized company pension plan for your future security
• Subsidized Germany-wide transportation ticket
• Budget for additional technical equipment
• Flexible working hours for better work-life balance and hybrid working model
• Virtual Stock Option Plan