Staff Product Designer - Expert Experience

ABOUT PARLOA

Parloa's mission is to make every customer conversation feel effortless for both customers and the companies serving them. As agentic AI accelerates, Parloans are shaping the foundation of a new era in customer experience, one where customer support is no longer transactions, but meaningful exchanges. It is not just a vision; Parloa has powered over ONE BILLION interactions between global enterprise brands and their customers, with companies like Booking.com, HealthEquity, Allianz, SAP, BarmeniaGothaer, and TUI already deploying Parloa at scale.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

We are on a mission to make creating and managing AI voice agents as easy as hiring and onboarding a human. Today, our platform serves highly technical users who configure advanced agent logic. Tomorrow, we envision an experience that keeps the depth and flexibility experts need while becoming more elegant, scalable, and intuitive.

As our Staff Product Designer, you will drive the realisation of the design vision for expert-facing workflows such as AI agent setup, configuration tools, and workflow orchestration. You will guide your cross-functional product team in translating this vision into coherent, usable, and technically feasible product experiences that turn complexity into clarity.

This is an opportunity to lead design for the core of our platform and define how experts build the next generation of conversational AI agents.

AREAS OF OWNERSHIP:

• Translate the design vision into your product team’s execution, ensuring clarity and usability across expert-facing workflows.
• Partner closely with product managers, engineers, and AI specialists to align on priorities, user needs, technical feasibility, and business impact.
• Balance depth and usability, ensuring powerful configuration capabilities remain approachable and efficient for expert users.
• Lead UX strategy within your product area, ensuring research insights shape both near-term decisions and long-term improvements.
• Prototype and explore advanced interaction models for workflows, logic building, and AI orchestration.
• Contribute hands-on design work while also setting direction and raising the quality of output within your product team.

WHO YOU ARE:

• 8+ years of experience in product design with a proven track record in complex domains, including two years in a lead capacity.
• Experience designing with AI tools as part of your workflow, for example, prototyping with generative design, exploring AI-assisted research, or testing adaptive experiences.
• Ability to design for configuration-heavy, expert-facing tools, balancing flexibility with clarity and efficiency.
• Strong systems thinking skills, with the ability to structure multi-layered flows with roles, states, and dynamic logic.
• Experience collaborating with product managers and engineers to drive product outcomes and influence strategic priorities.
• Mastery of interaction and visual design, with a portfolio that demonstrates elegant handling of highly complex interfaces.
• A research-driven mindset, grounded in user research, usability testing, and data-informed decision making.
• Technical fluency, with the ability to collaborate confidently with engineers and product managers.
• Strong communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to align and inspire cross-functional teams and leadership.

NICE-TO-HAVE:

• Demonstrated experience creating human-AI interaction models that balance usability, transparency, and trust.
• Demonstrated experience designing tools and platforms that enable others to configure or manage AI systems, for example, workflow builders, agent setup tools, or machine learning configuration interfaces.
• Background or interest in conversational interfaces, automation tooling, or multimodal interaction design.
• Familiarity with design systems in a scaling team.
• Knowledge of voice technologies or telephony ecosystems.

OUR RECRUITING PROCESS:

Recruiter Interview → Hiring Manager Interview → Portfolio Walkthrough →  Live Whiteboard Session → Bar Raiser Interview

WHY PARLOA?

We're at the beginning of a new era in customer experience, one where AI doesn't just respond, but understands, reasons, and takes action. We're building agentic AI that enterprises trust with their most important customer moments: complex questions, high volumes, real stakes. When millions of people reach out to a brand, those interactions aren't just support tickets; they're defining experiences. We're here to raise the standard: making every conversation seamless, intelligent, and genuinely helpful. If you care about shaping how businesses and customers connect at scale and want your work to matter in real, everyday moments, this is where you do it.

At Parloa, ownership isn't a buzzword; it means being accountable for outcomes, not just tasks. We operate in a category that's evolving fast, where the bar is high, and the problems are complex. We hire people who think in solutions, communicate with clarity, and follow through. People who are comfortable making decisions, taking responsibility, and raising the standard for themselves and those around them.

We've grown beyond the earliest startup phase, but we've kept the intensity: fast execution, direct feedback, and a strong expectation to contribute meaningfully from day one.

Backed by leading global investors like General Catalyst, EQT Ventures, and Altimeter Capital, we're scaling with a clear ambition: to become the global category leader in enterprise-grade conversational AI.

Parloa is committed to upholding the highest data protection standards for our clients' and employees' data. All our employees are instrumental in ensuring the utmost care, GDPR, and ISO compliance, including ISO 27001, in handling sensitive information.

Parloa is an e-verify employer in the USA. Please click here to learn more https://www.e-verify.gov/about-e-verify/what-is-e-verify. If you receive an offer of employment from Parloa, you will need to go through the E-Verify process of digital verification of your employment authorization documents as provided on the Form I-9. Participation in E-Verify does not limit your right to work and verification will only be completed after you become an employee with Parloa.

• We provide equal opportunities to all qualified applicants regardless race, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, national origin, disability status, socioeconomic background and other characteristics.