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Within the G42 ecosystem, Inception functions as the core intelligence layer - transforming data and compute infrastructure into real-world, applied AI solutions. Beyond its commercial endeavors, Inception is committed to creating positive societal impact. For more information, please visit www.inception42.ai\nOverview:\nG42 is building the compute, cloud, and data foundations for advanced AI to work at scale across government, healthcare, energy, finance and more.\nWithin G42, Inception42 is the layer that turns infrastructure into products people actually use. Our mission is to make advanced AI reliable, sovereign, and genuinely useful for some of the most important institutions and companies in the world. Our agentic systems strive to carry out real work rather than simply answer questions: Alpha, InSight and Vantage are applications for domain-specific intelligence; and Catalyst, our agentic platform, serves organisations who build and run agents while keeping sensitive data within the UAE.\nThe opportunity\nWe are looking for a hands-on Principal Product Designer to lead design work and manage a design pod across our AI-native portfolio: personal AI agents, executive intelligence, agentic workflows, governance platforms, and domain-specific solutions.\nThis is a role for an inventor. Your central job is to translate abstract vision - an executive ambition, a policy goal, a model capability that appeared six months ago - into concrete, innovative products that people trust and use every day. Your work will define how people should delegate real work to autonomous systems, and stay in control of the outcomes achieved by AI that are inherently non-deterministic.\nYou will own design from discovery through delivery, set the craft bar and the design systems across multiple products, and redefine the product design best practices at Inception42. You will work at the boundary of design, product, and applied AI - shaping not only the interface, but how the AI behaves with it.\nResponsibilities:\nVision and strategy\nDefine the product design vision, experience principles, and quality bar across Inception42’s portfolio.\nTranslate abstract vision and emerging AI capability into concrete, innovative product concepts - and then into shipped experiences.\nPartner with Product, Engineering, and Science teams to shape product strategy and roadmaps, for both the near term and the long term.\nTurn business and government requirements into use cases and high-level customer experiences.\nDrive sharper design thinking and seamless processes across Inception42\nBuilding AI-native apps, not just interfaces\nWork fast and run several projects at once, comfortable with ambiguity while managing stakeholder input, functional requirements, and timelines.\nLead discovery, UX research, journey mapping, interaction design, prototyping, usability tests, and production.\nOwn the full life cycle of AI-native design projects, from design strategy through to execution and launch.\nDesign for AI uncertainty and failure with checks and balances to mitigate potential incorrect or fabricated output, incomplete information, refusals, streaming and latency, tool errors, and non-deterministic behaviour.\nDesign intuitive experiences for AI agents, copilots, multi-agent systems, dashboards and conversational interfaces, and AI workflows across interaction patterns (memory, citations, long-running actions, etc.)\nMake AI capabilities and their limits legible, so users can calibrate their trust based on expected performance.\nPartner with Product, Engineering and Science teams to align AI experiences to their product designs across all layers: prompt and system design, tone of voice, output structure, content standards, and guardrails.\nContribute to evaluation: define what good output looks like from the user’s point of view, and help build the rubrics, test sets, and human review loops that measure it.\nGround designs in common sense, intuition, quantitative and qualitative data: UX research, market research, behavioural and telemetry data, and stakeholder feedback.\nDefine success metrics with Product, Science and Engineering- adoption, task success, time-to-value, correction and abandonment rates, trust calibration - and instrument designs so those metrics can be read.\nDesign systems, best practices and outcomes\nEstablish and govern scalable design systems across web, mobile, conversational, voice, and workflows.\nDesign interfaces and interaction flows in Figma, other prototyping tools, and AI tooling for rapid idea generation; treat working prototypes as the primary way you align stakeholders.\nDevelop and maintain clear design specifications, and hold all stakeholders to the set design quality bar\nEnsure products support English and Arabic, with right-to-left layout, bilingual typography and cultural context\nDesign in line with sovereign and responsible-AI expectations: AI disclosure, privacy and data-residency constraints, auditability, and human-in-the-loop control.\nLeadership and influence\nOperate as a hands-on leader: set direction while still solving the hardest design problems yourself.\nRecruit, mentor, and lead product designers, both full-time and contractors, while establishing strong standards for craft, critique, and product thinking.\nPresent design work to Product, Engineering, Science teams, Inception42 leadership, government stakeholders, enterprise customers, and external partners - you are able to act upon and use their high level feedback well.\nPresent complex, creative ideas in a way that is understandable to executives, engineers, and domain experts.\nQualifications:\n10+ years of product design experience, with experience managing teams for major design initiatives.\nAn online portfolio demonstrating end-to-end product ownership, interaction design, visual craft, and measurable outcomes. Case studies should show your process and your decisions, not only final screens.\nExperience with best practices for user interface design, information architecture, and interaction design.\nExperience with life-cycle design projects, from design strategy through to execution.\nExperience designing complex enterprise, SaaS, workflow, operational, or data-rich products.\nStrong expertise in user research, information architecture, prototyping, usability testing, and design systems.\nExpert proficiency in Figma and other design and prototyping tools.\nExperience designing AI-powered products such as agents, copilots, conversational UIs, intelligent workflows.\nPractical understanding of human-AI interaction, explainability, trust, confidence, user control, and HITL.\nFamiliarity with AI concepts such as prompts, context, RAG, citations, memory, evaluations\nExperience using AI-assisted design, coding, research, or prototyping tools in your day-to-day work.\nStrong leadership, stakeholder management, communication, and presentation skills,\nAbility to work with ambiguity and to find clarity in a fast-pacing and changing environment\nBachelor’s or Master’s degree in Product Design, Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or related fields\nPreferred qualifications\nExperience with AI governance, workflow builders, decision-intelligence products, or enterprise AI platforms.\nExperience designing bilingual Arabic and English products; Arabic language ability is a plus but not required\nFamiliarity with frontend technologies or design-to-code workflows, and the ability to prototype in code.\nSolid grasp of conversational and voice design fundamentals.\nExperience working directly with senior executives, government stakeholders, and enterprise customers.\nExperience in regulated domains such as healthcare, energy, financial services, or the public sector.\nExperience building or scaling a design function from a small base.\nWhat We Look For\nIf you are a performance-driven, inquisitive mind with the agility to adapt to ambiguity, you will fit right in. You should be eager to explore opportunities to build meaningful collaborations with stakeholders and aspire to create unique customer-centric solutions. Bias for action and a passion to conquer new frontiers in the AI space is at the heart of the Inception42 community.\nWhat Working At Inception42 Offers\nCulture: An open, diverse and inclusive environment with a global vision that encourages personal growth and focuses on ground-breaking, industry-first innovations.\nCareer: Outstanding learning, development & growth opportunities via structured training programs and innovative, high-tech projects.\nRewards: A competitive remuneration package with a host of perks including healthcare, education support, leave benefits and more.\nIf you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.","description_format":"text","description_chars":8953,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":10,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"Arabic","level":"All levels","optional":false},{"language":"English","level":"Proficiency (C2)","optional":true}]},"benefits":["Growth opportunities"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["LLM & Generative AI","Data Centers & Colocation","Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS)","AI Compute & Inference"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-23T14:17:06Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":81,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":11,"expected_fill_days":24,"reasons":["conf:2","velocity","win:mid"],"computed_at":"2026-11-04T06:34:25Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/g42-principal-product-designer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/g42-principal-product-designer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-04T23:17:41Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":236,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-05T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":190},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=190"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fg42-principal-product-designer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fg42-principal-product-designer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fg42-principal-product-designer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/g42-principal-product-designer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fg42-principal-product-designer"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3155444}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"g42.ai","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3155444},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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