Product Design Technologist Sr

Dayforce

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About The Position

Dayforce is seeking a Senior Design Technologist to bridge Product Design and Engineering through rapid prototyping, scalable UI architecture, and AI-powered experience development.
This role focuses on transforming early concepts into production-ready solutions. You will build high-fidelity prototypes, define interaction patterns, and collaborate cross-functionally to ensure AI-driven features are usable, reliable, and aligned with enterprise-grade security and compliance expectations.
The ideal candidate brings strong front-end engineering skills, deep interaction design sensibility, and hands-on experience prototyping modern AI-powered workflows.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in Design Technologist, UX Engineer, Front-End Prototyper, or similar hybrid design/engineering roles.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating shipped products and high-fidelity prototypes.
• Proficiency in: TypeScript / JavaScript Modern HTML and CSS React or comparable modern UI frameworks API integration and front-end state management
• Experience collaborating closely with product and engineering teams in enterprise SaaS environments.
• Working knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG) and inclusive design principles.
• Hands-on experience prototyping LLM-powered features.
• Familiarity with: Prompt/system instruction design and iteration Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) concepts Structured outputs and tool/function calling Agent-style workflow orchestration
• Experience evaluating AI outputs for accuracy, reliability, and user experience quality.
• Ability to responsibly use AI-assisted coding and design tools while maintaining engineering rigor.

Nice To Haves

• Experience building or maintaining enterprise design systems.
• Background in HR, payroll, workforce management, or highly regulated enterprise platforms.
• Experience designing conversational UX or multi-step automated workflows.
• Familiarity with experimentation frameworks and UX research collaboration.
• Experience creating internal tooling or prototyping frameworks to scale design velocity.

Responsibilities

• Build rapid prototypes ranging from interactive design explorations to coded, production-quality UI implementations.
• Translate ambiguous product concepts into concrete interaction models, workflows, and UI patterns.
• Partner with Engineering to align prototypes with scalable architecture, APIs, performance standards, and accessibility requirements.
• Accelerate decision-making through iterative testing and refinement.
• Prototype AI-driven workflows such as assistants, guided task completion, conversational interactions, and agent-based automation.
• Design human-in-the-loop patterns that maintain transparency, user control, and review before execution.
• Implement structured outputs, tool/function calling, and workflow orchestration within prototypes.
• Apply grounding and retrieval strategies to ensure generated outputs are accurate and contextual.
• Contribute to evaluation frameworks that measure usefulness, correctness, safety, and latency.
• Contribute to and extend Dayforce’s design system, including components, tokens, patterns, and documentation.
• Build reference implementations and living prototypes that support reuse across product teams.
• Strengthen design-to-development workflows, ensuring alignment between Figma assets and production components.
• Advocate for accessibility (WCAG compliance), responsive design, and performance best practices.
• Incorporate responsible AI principles into product interactions, including transparency, security, and privacy safeguards.
• Collaborate with Legal, Security, Privacy, and AI teams to ensure AI features meet enterprise compliance standards.
• Ensure AI-powered workflows appropriately reflect permissions and sensitive people data constraints.
• Mentor designers and engineers on prototyping techniques and AI UX patterns.
• Share best practices for AI-assisted development and modern front-end tooling.
• Influence product and engineering decisions through technical credibility and execution excellence.

Benefits

• Dayforce is fueled by the diversity of our talented employees. We are an equal opportunity employer and consider and embrace ALL individuals and what makes them unique. We believe our employees should be happy and healthy, with peace of mind and a sense of fulfillment.
• Dayforce encourages personal and professional growth. We offer excellent time away from work programs, comprehensive wellness initiatives and recognition through competitive pay and benefits.
• With a commitment to community impact, including volunteer days and our charity, Dayforce Cares we provide opportunities for you to thrive both in your career and personal life. Our focus is not just on your job but on supporting you to be the best version of yourself.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed