Senior UX Designer (Research & AI)

The role

You will own end-to-end UX across multiple software products from discovery to delivery. You will lead research programs and design AI-native experiences and complex data visualizations.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end UX across PLEXOS Cloud, PLEXOS Desktop, Aurora, Adapt2, and PLEXOS Intelligence
• Apply UX heuristics to reduce cognitive load in dashboards and simulation builders
• Design AI-native experiences including conversational interfaces and copilot features
• Use vibe-coding tools to prototype fast and make UX changes in dev environments
• Maintain the design system and component libraries in Figma
• Turn complex data into clear visuals like charts and time-series dashboards
• Collaborate with engineering, data science, product, and customer success
• Lead the research program including interviews, usability testing, and surveys
• Synthesize research data into clear insights and reports
• Maintain a rolling quarterly research plan aligned to the product roadmap

Required qualifications

• 5-8 years of UX design experience
• Portfolio showing research, information architecture, interaction design, and visual design
• Expert in Figma
• Strong knowledge of UX heuristics and design principles
• Hands-on experience with AI design and coding tools like Figma Make, Claude, GitHub Copilot, or VSCode with Opencode
• Experience designing complex data visualizations for expert B2B users
• Experience designing AI-native features such as copilots, intelligent automation, generative UI, or recommendation systems
• Design systems experience including component libraries, design tokens, variants, auto-layout, and engineering handoff

Nice to have

• Background designing cloud-native SaaS platforms for technical users or domain experts
• Front-end literacy: comfortable reading and writing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Familiarity with energy market concepts such as electricity dispatch, capacity planning, grid topology, or commodity trading

Benefits

• Meaningful work shaping energy markets
• AI-forward culture
• Global team
• Domain training via Energy Exemplar's Xpert platform
• Conference attendance
• Mentorship from product and engineering leaders

About the company

Energy Exemplar is a global software company founded in 1999 in Adelaide, Australia. Their mission is empowering transformative energy decisions through a software portfolio including PLEXOS, Aurora, and Adapt2.