Principal UX Designer (AI)

TL;DR

Principal UX Designer (AI): Building and defining AI-driven travel experiences across hirify.global's ecosystem with an accent on intelligent, conversational, and agentic systems. Focus on translating strategic vision into high-impact visual stories and prototypes, pushing boundaries of AI and next-generation interfaces, and evolving design systems for AI-native patterns.

Location: Austin, Texas, United States. Compensation varies by location, with other office locations including New York, Chicago, Seattle, and San Jose.

Salary: $242,000–$338,500 USD (for New York/San Jose, other cities may vary).

Company

hirify.global powers global travel for everyone, designing cutting-edge technology and groundbreaking solutions for partners.

What you will do

• Translate strategic vision into high-impact visual stories and prototypes for AI-driven travel experiences.
• Lead through making, using exceptional visual design and prototyping skills to explore and validate ideas.
• Push the boundaries of AI and next-generation interfaces, envisioning new conversational and multimodal paradigms.
• Design for agentic and mixed-initiative interactions, crafting clear mental models and user feedback mechanisms.
• Evolve Expedia’s design system to support AI-native patterns, adaptive layouts, and intelligent interaction logic.
• Integrate data-informed design principles, ensuring personalization, prediction, and automation are seamlessly expressed.

Requirements

• 8+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Human-Computer Interaction, User Experience Design, Cognitive Science, or related field; or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated thought leadership and domain expertise in designing complex, AI-driven systems and experiences.
• Mastery in Visual Design and Prototyping, with strong proficiency in UX Design, System Design, and Motion Design.
• Deep expertise in AI, conversational, and agentic experience design, including multimodal and adaptive paradigms.
• Expert knowledge of modern design and prototyping platforms, including Figma, and experience with prototyping with LLMs and prompt engineering.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including medical/dental/vision and paid time off.
• Travel perks, wellness and travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and an International Airlines Travel Agent (IATAN) membership.
• Flexible work model and career development resources.
• Open culture where everyone belongs and differences are celebrated.