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Yet knowledge gets stuck in tools and SharePoint folders - or disappears when experts leave. While IT is still planning, employees are already using ChatGPT and the like - without governance, and sensitive data is leaking out.\nWith the Knowledge Bots platform, Blockbrain creates what companies truly need: AI-powered knowledge management that is quick to implement, flexibly scales, and operates in a compliant manner. Teams use our GenAI building blocks to build tailored AI assistants, agents, and workflows in minutes - just like Lego.\nSeries A funded with strong growth momentum (10x product usage & 5x revenue in 2025)\n\nEnterprise clients such as Roland Berger, Bosch, IONOS, and Harting from industries including manufacturing, finance, and legal - sectors with the highest security requirements\n\nISO 27001 certified, EU AI Act ready. Made in Germany.\n\n Role & Impact\nTogether with your engineering colleagues, you own and shape design at Blockbrain across the full product - web, agent interfaces, and mobile. From rough problem framing to production-grade components, you work directly in the codebase, shape product direction as a peer, and build the design foundation the team will grow on. Design here is a team sport: you'll be the craft anchor, but the decisions get made together.\nDesign System\nDefine and maintain Blockbrain's component library, interaction patterns, spacing, typography, and motion\n\nEnsure consistency across all product surfaces - web, agent UI, and mobile\n\nProduct Design\nDesign interfaces for complex agent workflows, configuration surfaces, and human-in-the-loop moments\n\nOwn decisions from first sketch through shipped component\n\nFrontend Implementation\nImplement your own components directly in the TypeScript/React codebase\n\nClose the gap between design intent and production reality\n\nResearch & Validation\nRun lightweight user research to ground design decisions in real behaviour\n\nSeparate what users say from what they need\n\nStandards & Culture\nEstablish design critique practices across the engineering organisation\n\nDefine what good looks like - and hold the bar\n\nExpected AI Skills\nAt Blockbrain, we don't just talk about AI - we use it every day. In this role, you will:\nUse AI tools to generate design variations, explore interaction concepts, and accelerate visual production\n\nLeverage coding agents to implement components and iterate on frontend code without waiting on others\n\nWork directly with Blockbrain's own agent platform and feed real design intuitions back into the product\n\nStay current on how AI capabilities are reshaping interface paradigms and apply that to what you build\n\nWe're not looking for AI experts - we're looking for designers who treat AI as a creative and engineering multiplier, not a novelty.\nYour Profile\nCraft obsessive. You care about the difference between a good interaction and a great one. Not because of aesthetics - because you've seen how much it matters to whether something works.\n\nSystem-thinker first. You don't design screens. You design systems. 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