Design Technologist (SENIOR)

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LOCATION- Amsterdam 3 days/week. It is a design technologist profile.

Background: IKEA is investing in agentic commerce: using AI to change how customers find inspiration, plan and buy for their homes. Interior AI is a core part of this strategy and is business critical. It lets customers see ideas in their own room and turn a generated room into real IKEA products, prices and a basket. Customers already use AI tools for home design, so speed matters. Whoever connects inspiration and purchase first will be hard to win customers back from.

The assignment sits in the Home Imagination Platform, a product team of designers, researchers, engineers and product managers working with IKEA’s AI Lab. The team builds the Interior AI capabilities that app, web and other digital customer meeting points then bring to customers. The team needs a designer with hands-on agentic building skills and a deep understanding of AI as a design material. Without this capability, IKEA risks falling behind in how it meets customers with agentic solutions.

Describe the scope of the consultant’s assignment: The consultant will work as a senior product designer on a business-critical initiative within the Home Imagination Platform. Working with engineering, product and the AI Lab, they will shape Interior AI capabilities through rapid, hands-on exploration and design the customer experiences around them. They will then help prepare these capabilities for implementation together with app, web and other touchpoint teams.

The focus is delivery: frequent releases of Interior AI features, updates and experiences to customers, not long-term lab work. No travel is required.

Day-to-day tasks: Build working prototypes of Interior AI ideas using agentic coding tools such as GitHub Copilot, and use AI agents within the design process. Explore and test how AI capabilities should behave, what they produce and how customers interact with them. Design end-to-end flows, UI, interactions and motion that make complex AI capabilities intuitive within existing customer journeys. Work daily with engineers, product managers and AI specialists to understand model and technical constraints and adapt the design accordingly.

Present and explain capabilities and concepts to stakeholders at every level. Collaborate with app, web and other product teams to move work from prototype to production, including specifications and, where relevant, code contributions. Take part in the team’s release cadence, test ideas early and iterate on feedback.

Required skills and education: Required: Senior product design experience, with a portfolio showing shipped web and mobile experiences, including AI-powered or agentic products. Hands-on experience building prototypes with agentic coding tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor or Lovable. Practical experience using AI agents in the design process. Enough working knowledge of code and AI models (LLMs, generative image and 3D) to use them as a design material and understand their capabilities and limits.

Strong skills in information architecture, user flows, interaction design, UI and motion. Ability to explain complex technology clearly to technical and business stakeholders. Experience working in cross-functional product teams with engineering and data or AI specialists. A pragmatic, experimental approach to AI with a bias for shipping, plus the ability to take ownership in close collaboration with others.

Desired: Experience in retail, e-commerce or home furnishing. Experience in large-scale digital product environments. Experience designing for spatial, 3D or visual generative AI experiences. What 3 things from the box above are most important?

A hands-on builder mindset: taking ideas to working prototypes with agentic coding tools and AI agents in the design process. Understanding of code and AI models as a design material, enough to shape capabilities together with engineering and AI specialists.

Senior experience craft: making complex AI capabilities intuitive and tangible through flows, UI and motion, and shipping them to customers.