Senior Product Designer

About us:

Cognex is the world’s leading provider of vision systems, software, sensors, and industrial barcode readers used in manufacturing automation. Cognex’s advanced AI enabled vision products help companies improve product quality, eliminate production errors, lower manufacturing costs, and exceed consumer expectations for high quality products at an affordable price. Typical applications for machine vision include using edge and deep learning AI models to detect defects, monitor production lines, guide assembly robots, and track, sort, and identify parts. We are deeply committed to fostering an inclusive and equitable work environment, guided by our "Work Hard, Play Hard, Move Fast" culture, which celebrates employee innovation, determination, and dedication in a dynamic, fun, and distinctive atmosphere.

We are working on a hybrid schedule, 3 days in the office, 2 at home

The Team: 

The UX Design team at Cognex was formed three years ago and has been growing in strategic importance to reflect the Company’s focus on providing “advanced machine vision, made easy” to our customers. We design web-based interfaces for Cognex’s diverse suite of enterprise B2B products and services. Cognex product teams atomically consume our UIs to develop and maintain a unified look & feel across multiple workflows and product lines.

We work closely with multi-national teams of deep learning researchers, computer vision engineers, hardware designers, systems integrators, and product marketers. We strive to understand the underlying technology, including its limitations and opportunities, and we then use that understanding to define rich user experiences for complex computer vision tools.

We are actively building up our design system and rolling it out across our product lines. There is a lot of exciting upcoming design work at Cognex, and you get to shape that future.

Responsibilities: 

• Lead multiple projects through all aspects of the design cycle (requirements gathering, brainstorming, sketching, prototyping, testing, iterating, etc.)

• Work with our design team to document, maintain, and architect the Cognex design system based on the Angular Material library.

• Design systematic, reusable components using the atomic design philosophy.

• Participate in design reviews with our design team and other stakeholders, iteratively honing the design and implementation of the whole team’s UIs.

• Collaborate with engineers and product marketers to ensure that the implementation of your designs result in a delightful and cohesive overall product experience.

• Create and maintain internal documentation for your designs and evangelize their use across the company.

• Shape the design culture within our design team and at Cognex generally.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities 

• Familiarity with the Chrome development tools, and a willingness to inspect the code to ensure the engineers built your designs appropriately.

• Ability to work as a member of a team in a loosely structured and continuously improving agile process.

• Team player with ability to work effectively and share knowledge across the team 

• Willingness to propose and advocate for bold designs

• Shows openness to constructive feedback and continually refines a design until it truly excels

• Strong presentation, communication and interpersonal skills 

Minimum education and work experience required: 

• A portfolio demonstrating the ability to utilize and adapt an existing design system.

• Nice to have: Bachelors or Master’s degree in HCI, a related discipline, or a related technical field. 

• 4-8 years of product design / UX experience, designing web-based products that were built and shipped to real users.

• ​Experience with Figma, or similar design software 

• Experience deploying, maintaining, and improving a design system across a large organization.

• Experience designing for cross-browser and cross-device compatibility (e.g. desktop Chrome, mobile Safari, etc.) 

• Nice to have: Experience designing for AI and deep learning systems. 

Why Cognex?

Cognex is the global leader in industrial machine vision. We are a financially strong, international company with a "Work Hard, Play Hard, Move Fast" culture that celebrates innovation and determination. Our employees are passionate about solving the toughest challenges in industrial automation.

Cognex believes in fair and equitable pay. A reasonable estimate of the base salary range for this role is 96,000 USD - 200,000 USD. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range, or be above or below the range, based on factors including, but not limited to, education, training, experience, professional achievement, business need, and location. In addition to base salary, employees will participate in either an annual bonus plan based on company and individual performance, or a sales incentive plan.

This position provides a comprehensive benefits package, including health, dental, and vision insurance; a 401(k) retirement plan with company matching; employer-paid disability, family leave, and life insurance; paid time off (including holidays); optional voluntary benefits; and recognition and wellness programs.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Cognex is an equal opportunity employer. Cognex evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.