Staff Product Designer

Staff Product Designer

The Staff Product Designer is a strategic leader responsible for defining and shaping the future of enterprise product and service experiences within complex industrial environments. You will operate at the intersection of human behavior, data, and business strategy to identify unclear problem spaces, align stakeholders around priorities, define success measures, and turn complex system challenges into actionable design direction across multi-product platforms and business-critical workflows. As a subject matter expert, you will guide cross-functional teams to deliver outcome-driven, scalable solutions, leveraging modern UX practices—including AI-assisted design and research—to accelerate innovation, ensure technical feasibility, and drive measurable business impact.

Key Responsibilities:

• Product 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.
• AI Experience and Innovation: 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.
• Product and System Design: 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.
• Design-to-Code Quality: 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.
• Cross-Functional Leadership and Team Enablement: 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.

Required Qualifications:

• 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).