Robots and Pencils

Role Description Robots & Pencils is seeking a Junior Fullstack Engineer to join our growing team. You'll contribute to building a greenfield web application alongside an experienced dev team, helping ship real features to real users. This is a great opportunity for a commercially experienced developer to grow in a fast-moving, client-facing environment. In February 2025, we opened our new office in Lviv, Ukraine, as part of our ongoing global growth. You'll collaborate with a distributed team working on high-impact products with colleagues across North and South America and Europe. Key Responsibilities - Implement frontend features in React (built on RadixUI) with clean, maintainable code. - Contribute to C#/.NET backend development and RESTful APIs. - Work closely with senior engineers, designers, and product stakeholders to understand requirements and success criteria. - Participate in sprint planning, backlog grooming, and QA reviews. - Communicate progress and blockers clearly in an agile environment. Qualifications - 2–3 years of commercial software development experience. - Hands-on experience with React and modern frontend tooling. - Working knowledge of C# and .NET backend development. - Familiarity with component libraries (experience with RadixUI or similar is a plus). - Understanding of REST APIs and client–server architecture. - Experience working in agile/scrum teams with CI/CD workflows. - Upper-intermediate English, written and spoken. Requirements - Experience with TypeScript. - Exposure to design systems and accessibility best practices. - Familiarity with cloud deployment (AWS, Azure, or GCP). Personal Competencies - Adaptability – Comfortable in a fast-paced, greenfield project environment. - Collaboration – Communicates proactively with team members and client stakeholders. - Craftsmanship – Cares about clean code, good UX, and doing things right. Benefits At Robots & Pencils, we don't just build software - we solve meaningful business problems through creative technology. You'll work alongside passionate engineers, designers, and strategists in a remote-friendly, collaborative environment. With our expansion into Ukraine, now is the perfect time to join our growing global team and contribute to high-impact work from day one.

Role Description At Robots & Pencils, we’re looking for a Senior QA Engineer (Manual) to join a newly formed, R&P-led team working on a greenfield application. In this role, you will play a key part in ensuring the quality, reliability, and usability of a modern platform designed to support operational workflows and distributed teams across both web and native mobile applications (iOS and Android). You’ll collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, and designers to define testing strategies, validate new features, and ensure high-quality releases. This is an opportunity to work from the ground up on a new product, influence QA processes, and contribute to building a strong quality culture within the team. In February 2025, we opened our new office in Lviv, Ukraine, as part of our ongoing global growth. We’re actively expanding our Ukrainian team and inviting skilled professionals to join us on this journey. You’ll collaborate with a distributed team working on high-impact products with colleagues across North and South America and Europe. Qualifications - 5+ years of experience in software quality assurance (manual testing) - Proven experience testing both web and native mobile applications (iOS and Android) - Strong understanding of QA methodologies, tools, and best practices - Experience testing modern web applications - Experience working with RESTful APIs (e.g., using Postman or similar tools) - Solid understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) and agile methodologies - Strong attention to detail and analytical thinking - Upper-Intermediate English (written and spoken) Requirements - Create, maintain, and execute detailed manual test cases based on user stories and requirements - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define acceptance criteria and testing strategies - Perform functional, regression, exploratory, and usability testing for web and native mobile applications (iOS & Android) - Identify, document, and track defects through to resolution - Validate front-end and API integrations to ensure a seamless user experience across platforms - Contribute to continuous improvement of QA processes, standards, and best practices - Participate in agile ceremonies and provide input on quality risks and timelines Benefits - Collaborative environment with passionate engineers, designers, and strategists - Opportunity to work on impactful, high-quality products - Remote-friendly work culture

Role Description We’re looking for a Vice President, Data to build, lead, and grow R&P’s data practice from the ground up. This is an important role at Robots & Pencils, a player-coach position that demands equal parts technical depth, business ownership, and leadership. You will establish R&P as a go-to partner for: - Data strategy - Modern data architecture - AI-ready platforms - Business intelligence - Data engineering You will own the practice as a true business, with full accountability for: - Revenue - Profitability - Client outcomes - Team development You’ll report to the Global Head of Delivery and be part of the Senior Leadership team. Qualifications - 10+ years of progressive experience in data and analytics - At least 3 years at director, principal, or practice-lead level within a professional services or technology consulting business - Demonstrated track record of building or scaling a data practice or service line - Proven experience solutioning and delivering complex data engagements - Deep expertise in Databricks, Snowflake, and/or AWS (Redshift/S3) - Comprehensive command of the data ecosystem - Expertise across the full data value chain - Strong executive presence - History of developing and mentoring high-performing technical teams Requirements - Act as the senior data authority in front of client CTOs, CIOs, and heads of data - Develop strategic views on where the data market is headed - Champion internal and external thought leadership - Develop best-in-class solutions architecture recommendations - Contribute to R&P's AI software development lifecycle - Build and lead a high-performing team of data consultants, engineers, BI leads, and data scientists - Set the technical standards, career architecture, and development pathways for data practitioners - Cultivate a collaborative, inclusive practice culture - Build the data practice into a $5m revenue practice in the first twelve months - Set a clear vision for the practice and communicate it compellingly - Define service lines, target industries, pricing logic, and operating model - Partner with the sales organization and client teams - Lead and support presales solutioning and scoping engagements - Lead the firm’s Databricks relationship and adjacent data partnerships Benefits - Comprehensive package of benefits including a bonus program - Paid time off - Medical/dental/vision insurance - 401(k) to eligible employees

Role Description We’re looking for a Staff Data Engineer to join a multi-disciplinary engineering team building modern, enterprise-grade data platforms. This role is ideal for an experienced engineer who can define data strategy, own platform decisions end-to-end, and contribute to technical leadership across the team. In this role, you will: - Design scalable data lakes, warehouses, and pipelines. - Define governance and quality standards. - Drive data platform modernization across real, in-flight work where performance, reliability, and security are critical. - Mentor more junior engineers. - Partner with leadership on data strategy. - Bring an AI-forward mindset. What You’ll Do Craft & Delivery - Define data architecture and platform strategy, leading design across pipelines, warehouses, and data lakes. - Build and optimize scalable data pipelines supporting batch and real-time processing. - Define and enforce data governance, quality standards, and compliance frameworks across the platform. - Build monitoring, logging, and alerting for data pipelines and services, and contribute to CI/CD workflows for data deployment and automation. - Drive data platform modernization, optimizing for performance, cost, and scalability. - Bring an AI-forward mindset to your daily work, using tools like Claude, Cursor, and other modern AI assistants to ship higher-quality work at pace. - Design and implement data contracts and event flows in collaboration with backend, platform, and engineering teams. - Lead the design and implementation of data pipelines for production AI/ML systems, including embeddings, vector stores, RAG data preparation, feature stores, and training/inference data flows. - Integrate data services with APIs, middleware, and third-party systems to support end-to-end data consumption. Collaboration & Communication - Partner with leadership on data strategy, translating technical depth into decisions others can act on. - Collaborate closely with engineering, analytics, AI, and product teams to align data platforms with broader goals. - Advocate for data quality, governance, and platform best practices across teams and engagements. Leadership & Influence - Establish data engineering standards that lift the quality and consistency of work across the team. - Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, helping them grow their craft, confidence, and impact. - Make high-stakes architectural decisions with clear ownership and consideration of long-term tradeoffs. Qualifications - 7+ years of professional data engineering experience, with experience leading complex data platform initiatives. - Strong system architecture background with expertise in distributed data systems. - Expert proficiency in Python, Scala, and SQL. - Deep expertise with cloud-native data platforms and enterprise data warehousing. - Strong expertise in data pipeline orchestration and processing. - Strong experience with streaming platforms and real-time data processing (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis, Pub/Sub). - Strong data modeling expertise and experience with data transformation. - Strong experience with data quality, governance, and compliance frameworks. - Strong experience with container orchestration and CI/CD for data systems. - Strong experience building data pipelines for production AI/ML systems, including embeddings, vector stores, RAG data preparation, feature stores, and training/inference data flows. - Demonstrated leadership and technical mentoring experience across a team or organization. - Strong stakeholder communication skills, with the ability to translate technical depth across audiences. - Demonstrable, day-to-day usage and expert knowledge of AI-forward coding tools such as Claude and Cursor. - Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to navigate highly ambiguous technical and business challenges with sound judgment. - Experience with data mesh or data fabric concepts, lakehouse architectures, or governance framework implementation is a plus. Helpful Extras and Unique Skills - Experience with handling and modeling data in the healthcare industry is a plus. - AWS certifications, like Certified Data Engineer – Associate, strongly preferred. Benefits - A doer who sees something broken and fixes it. - A fast learner who embraces the changing AI landscape. - Direct in a way that improves the work. - Obsessed with craft and detail. - Built for ownership and accountability. - All in for clients' businesses. - Resourceful under constraints. - Glad to collaborate with dedicated team members.

Role Description We're looking for a Product Manager to own product delivery across complex digital engagements. This position is for a project building an AI-powered workforce coordination platform that automates real-time crew assembly through intelligent voice interactions and backend decisioning systems. In this role, you will work as a core member of a cross-functional delivery team, owning backlog management, requirements definition, and sprint execution end-to-end. You'll be joining real, in-flight work where quality and delivery speed matter, collaborating with experienced engineers and designers and growing the product instincts that come from shipping things that matter. What You’ll Do - Craft & Delivery - Own and manage the product backlog, ensuring work is clearly defined, prioritized, and aligned to business outcomes. - Translate business needs and stakeholder requests into structured requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria. - Partner with engineering and design to ensure requirements are well understood and delivered with quality. - Facilitate sprint planning, backlog refinement, and day-to-day delivery execution to keep the team on track. - Identify and manage dependencies, risks, and scope changes throughout the delivery lifecycle. - Leverage data, user feedback, and team insights to continuously improve the product. - Bring an AI-forward mindset to your daily work, using tools like Claude to accelerate documentation, research, and analysis. - Collaboration & Communication - Build and maintain strong relationships with client stakeholders, serving as a trusted partner in delivery. - Communicate progress, risks, and tradeoffs clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences. - Facilitate working sessions, requirement discussions, and decision-making forums with clients and delivery teams. - Leadership & Influence - Take full ownership of product delivery responsibilities end-to-end and follow through with consistency. - Frame requests in terms of user and business outcomes, not just features. - Contribute to a positive, high-performing team environment through reliability, clarity, and good judgment. Qualifications - 3+ years of experience in product management or product ownership. - Strong understanding of agile delivery practices and product ownership responsibilities. - Experience writing requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria for cross-functional delivery teams. - Experience working directly with clients or external stakeholders. - Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences. - Analytical approach to decision-making using data and user insight. - Proficiency with product and delivery tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, Miro). - Demonstrable usage of AI tools to enhance productivity and product work (e.g., Claude). - Experience in a consulting or agency environment is a plus. Helpful Extras and Unique Skills - Exposure to AWS services (Bonus: AWS Bedrock, ECS, DynamoDB). - Experience with Twilio or similar communication platforms. - Awareness of AI/LLM-based products or voice interfaces. What You’ll Do Well Here If You Are - A doer who sees something broken and fixes it. - A fast learner who embraces the ever-changing AI landscape. - Direct in a way that improves the work environment. - Obsessed with craft and detail. - Built for ownership, honoring commitments and backing teammates. - All in, treating clients' businesses as your own. - Resourceful when faced with constraints. - Glad to be in the room with people who care as much as you do.

Role Description At Robots & Pencils, we build meaningful, scalable digital products that solve real business problems. We are looking for a Staff Product Manager who combines deep Generative and Agentic AI fluency with hands-on building ability to own AI product outcomes end-to-end. As a Staff PM, you're accountable for initiative-level outcomes, stakeholder satisfaction, and contributing to R&P's AI product practice. You think in systems, work backwards from the customer problem, and stay relentlessly curious about what's next in AI. Enterprise clients want to deploy Agents - moving from a promising demo to a production system that works at scale, meets security and compliance requirements, and delivers measurable business value is hard. This role owns that problem. You'll be part of a GenAI initiative within the AWS ecosystem, building the evals, tools, patterns, and reference architectures that make AI deployment repeatable. The mindset: prove it works, test assumptions early, and document while building. Key Responsibilities - Product Strategy & AI Vision: - Define and drive the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for GenAI solutions with agentic AI as the primary focus. - Translate enterprise problems into structured product requirements; reframe feature requests into outcome-driven priorities. - Balance near-term deployment milestones with long-term platform scalability and sustainability. - Monitor the competitive GenAI landscape and emerging agentic patterns. - Discovery & Validation: - Research how enterprise users interact with AI agents and where they lose trust. - Design and run experiments to validate agentic solutions. - Distill research, experiments, and competitive intelligence into clear insights. - Agent Design, Prototyping & Production: - Define agent behavior and prototype system prompts and tool schemas. - Drive multi-model architecture tradeoffs with engineering. - Build AI prototypes to validate hypotheses. - Establish agent evaluation frameworks and partner with engineering on production readiness. - Define success metrics at the agent level. - Delivery & Execution: - Own the end-to-end product lifecycle from discovery through phased rollouts. - Manage the product backlog, scope, dependencies, and risks. - Evaluate technology and platform decisions from a product perspective. - Use AI to accelerate product work. - Stakeholder Management: - Build trusted relationships with stakeholders and executives. - Partner with AWS Solution Architects and account teams. - Manage expectations on scope, timelines, and tradeoffs. - Frame AI capabilities and limitations for non-technical stakeholders. Qualifications - 8-12+ years in product management, forward deployment, or solutions engineering. - Strong product sense and ability to identify what matters to users and the business. - Deep GenAI fluency with hands-on experience building or shipping agentic systems. - Proven ability to prototype AI solutions using AI tools. - Experience deploying AI solutions in enterprise environments with strong technical fluency. - Exceptional communicator with experience leading AI products through full lifecycle. - Comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments. - PM-level fluency across the AWS AI ecosystem. Preferred Qualifications - Software engineering or coding background (Python, JavaScript, TypeScript). - Agency or consulting delivery experience. - Experience in Financial Services, Healthcare, or Life Sciences industries. - Familiarity with open-source LLM ecosystem for flexibility and cost optimization. - Prior experience leading time-boxed discovery initiatives or technical spikes. Benefits - Work at the intersection of cutting-edge AI and real enterprise impact. - Variety of consulting with the depth of a product role. - Collaborative, technically sharp team invested in doing great work for clients.

Role Description At Robots & Pencils, we build meaningful, scalable digital products that solve real business problems. We’re looking for a Staff AI Engineer to support the development and delivery of complex, integration-heavy platforms. This role is ideal for an experienced engineer who thrives in hands-on development, can confidently own features and deployments, and contributes to team leadership within a pod. In this role, you will work as a key contributor on a cross-functional team, building across the stack while helping guide delivery, improve systems, and solve challenging integration problems, including AI-native platforms such as agentic learning systems designed to enable human-centered learning in the Age of AI. This is not a greenfield project. You’ll be joining a mature, production environment with real users, where reliability, performance, and scalability are critical. You’ll collaborate closely with senior engineers to enhance existing systems and deliver high-quality features. By joining us, you leverage our Advanced AWS Partnership and the highly exclusive AWS Patterns Partnership, a distinction held by only 11 companies worldwide out of 190,000. What You’ll Do - Development - Build and maintain backend services using Python and Node.js, including serverless architectures (e.g., AWS Lambda, API Gateway) - Develop and integrate APIs that support frontend applications and external systems - Contribute to frontend features and ensure smooth integration across the stack - Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code with strong unit testing practices - Workflow & System Orchestration - Support the development and maintenance of workflows using orchestration tools (e.g., Sequencer / workflow engines, state machines) - Contribute to event-driven processes and asynchronous system operations (e.g., SQS, EventBridge) - Assist in improving reliability through better error handling and retries - Backend & API Engineering - Develop RESTful APIs and support the BE architecture - Integrate with third-party services and internal systems, including AI-driven platforms - Assist in optimizing performance and scalability of services using DynamoDB single-table design patterns (composite keys, transactional writes) - Implement secure and reliable data handling practices - System Reliability & Support - Troubleshoot issues in production environments with guidance from senior team members - Contribute to logging, monitoring, and debugging efforts - Support deployment and release processes in cloud-native environments (AWS, Docker) - Collaboration & Growth - Work closely with cross-functional teams across global locations - Participate in code reviews and team discussions - Take ownership of assigned features and tasks, delivering end-to-end solutions - Continue developing technical skills and leveraging AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code) Qualifications - 6+ years of professional software engineering - Strong experience with Python and Node.js - Experience with LLM function/tool calling, prompt engineering, multi-agent orchestration, vector databases (OpenSearch), embeddings, streaming LLM responses, RAG concepts - Experience working with AWS cloud environments, including Lambda, DynamoDB (and Single-Table design), S3, SQS, EventBridge, Step Functions, etc. - Experience building and maintaining fullstack applications - Exposure to workflow orchestration tools (e.g., Sequencer or similar systems) - Solid understanding of API design and backend systems - Familiarity with databases (SQL and/or NoSQL, including scalable design patterns) - Experience working in production environments - Strong unit testing practices and maintainable test strategies - Experience with containerization (e.g., Docker) Nice to Have - Demonstrated ability to reason about system-wide impacts of changes, including downstream effects across services and data layers - Demonstrated ability to identify design gaps in requirements and raise them before they reach development - Experience with Langfuse, synthetic AI testing, token cost optimization, reasoning effort configuration, Step Functions for AI workflows

Role Description We’re looking for a Senior AI Engineer to design, build, and deliver production AI/ML systems. This role is ideal for an engineer with several years of experience who can confidently own features end-to-end, contribute to architectural decisions, and bring strong technical judgment to the problems they take on. - Design, implement, and deploy ML/AI models end-to-end, from concept through production, including data pipelines, training workflows, and optimization for performance, accuracy, and efficiency. - Maintain and evolve AI systems in production, monitoring for drift, debugging issues, and driving ongoing improvements to reliability and scalability. - Bring an AI-forward coding mindset to your daily work, using tools like Claude and Cursor to ship higher-quality work at pace. - Partner closely with product, engineering, and data teams to align AI work with broader product and business goals. - Translate technical tradeoffs, model behavior, and constraints into terms non-specialists can act on. - Participate actively in code reviews and design discussions, raising concerns and offering constructive feedback. - Contribute to AI architecture decisions with thoughtful perspective on tradeoffs and long-term implications. - Take ownership of meaningful work end-to-end, including the unglamorous parts of getting AI into production. - Raise the bar on engineering practices through your own work and by supporting more junior engineers when opportunities arise. Qualifications - 4+ years professional software engineering experience, with 2+ years focused on AI/ML systems in production and hands-on experience with generative AI development. - Strong software engineering background (Python or similar). - Working knowledge of cloud platforms, preferably with in-depth understanding of AWS services and AWS GenAI offerings. - Proven ability to design and ship agentic systems. - Experience with AI frameworks and orchestration tools. - Experience with evaluation frameworks, and observability tools for LLM apps. - Understanding of AI safety, responsible AI principles, prompt injection defenses, and PII handling. - Hands-on experience building RAG pipelines: chunking strategies, embedding models, vector databases. - API development experience, including designing and integrating with internal and third-party services. - Cost optimization expertise: token economics, caching strategies, model routing, quantization. - Working knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes for containerized deployments. - Demonstrable, day-to-day usage and knowledge of AI-forward coding tools such as Claude Code and Cursor. - Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to navigate ambiguous technical challenges with sound judgment. Requirements - A doer who sees something broken and fixes it. - A fast learner who is curious and keeps learning. - Direct in a way that improves work quality. - Obsessed with craft and detail. - Built for ownership and accountability. - All in for client success and resourceful under constraints. - Glad to collaborate with experienced team members. Benefits - Comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off. - Medical/dental/vision insurance. - 401(k) to eligible employees. Company Description Robots & Pencils is an applied AI engineering firm building the next frontier of business architecture. We design and ship AI co-workers that integrate into enterprise operations and deliver measurable results for our clients. Founded in 2009, we are smaller, faster, and more senior by design, with teams averaging 15+ years of experience.

Role Description We're looking for a DevOps/Backend Engineer (Level 4) to own infrastructure, CI/CD, and backend services for a large-scale platform serving a major public university. You will be responsible for maintaining and evolving a multi-repo AWS serverless architecture spanning: - Lambda functions - Step Functions - DynamoDB - API Gateway - SQS - CloudFront - Containerized services running on ECR This is not a greenfield project. You'll be joining a mature, production system with real users depending on it daily. The platform orchestrates complex business workflows through event-driven serverless pipelines, integrating with multiple external enterprise APIs and internal microservices. You'll work closely with backend and frontend engineers to keep this system reliable, observable, and shipping safely across multiple environments. By joining us, you leverage our Advanced AWS Partnership and the highly exclusive AWS Patterns Partnership, a distinction held by only 11 companies worldwide out of 190,000. Qualifications - 7+ years of professional software engineering experience - Deep hands-on experience with AWS serverless services: Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, DynamoDB, SQS, CloudFront, ECR - Strong proficiency writing and maintaining Terraform at scale - Production experience with CI/CD pipeline design and operation (Jenkins preferred) - Solid understanding of containerization (Docker) and image registry management (ECR) - Experience with multi-environment promotion strategies and deployment safety patterns Requirements - Backend Development & Operations - Develop and maintain Node.js and Python Lambda functions powering REST APIs, data aggregation, and business logic - Build and optimize Step Function workflows orchestrating multi-service operations - Integrate with external enterprise APIs and internal microservices, handling authentication, rate limiting, and error propagation - Implement deferred processing patterns using SQS for handling concurrent and long-running operations - Infrastructure & IaC - Own and evolve Terraform modules provisioning API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, Step Functions, SQS, CloudFront, and ECR across multiple AWS accounts - Manage multi-account AWS environments with proper IAM boundaries, secrets management (Vault), and S3 state backends - Design and implement infrastructure changes that support zero-downtime deployments and safe rollback strategies - Maintain and optimize Docker image builds and ECR lifecycle policies for containerized services - CI/CD & Release Engineering - Own Jenkins pipelines that build, test, and promote artifacts through staged environments with manual approval gates - Improve build reliability, speed, and developer feedback loops across multiple repositories - Implement and maintain pre-commit hooks, automated testing gates, and lint/type-check enforcement - Coordinate production deployments following established release procedures - Observability & Reliability - Build monitoring, alerting, and logging infrastructure for a distributed serverless system - Troubleshoot production issues spanning API Gateway, Lambda cold starts, Step Function timeouts, and DynamoDB throttling - Establish and maintain SLOs for critical user-facing workflows - Improve error handling and retry strategies across event-driven workflows Benefits - Work on a production platform that directly impacts real users at scale - Operate within a mature, multi-repo AWS serverless architecture with real complexity - Collaborate with experienced engineers across backend, frontend, and infrastructure disciplines - Grow within a globally recognized AWS partner ecosystem with access to cutting-edge cloud practices - Influence DevOps culture, tooling, and reliability standards across the engineering organization

Robots & Pencils is looking for a UX/UI Designer to help design thoughtful, high-quality digital experiences across a range of client engagements. This role is ideal for a curious, collaborative designer who enjoys solving real problems and bringing ideas to life, from early concepts through polished delivery. You will partner closely with client product teams and our internal Experience team to turn complex ideas into clear, intuitive, and engaging experiences. This is a hands-on design role, with most of your time spent designing, prototyping, and collaborating, while also contributing to internal initiatives such as marketing, business development, and the evolution of our design practice. This role is well suited to someone who thrives on variety, works comfortably across industries, and is excited to experiment with AI-powered workflows to enhance their craft. Why This Role Matters At Robots & Pencils, we build smart systems for a human world. Designers play a critical role in shaping how people experience technology, ensuring it feels intuitive, purposeful, and human. In this role, you will help clients transform complex challenges into meaningful digital experiences while also contributing to how we design, collaborate, and explore emerging technologies such as AI. Your work will directly influence the quality of what we ship and how teams work together. Key Responsibilities UX/UI Design & Execution · Design end-to-end UX and UI deliverables, from early exploration and concepting through high-fidelity execution. · Create wireframes, prototypes, and polished interface designs that balance usability, business goals, and technical constraints. · Build, evolve, and maintain design systems that support consistency, scalability, and flexibility across products. · Use Figma confidently for design, prototyping, documentation, and collaboration. Collaboration & Delivery · Partner closely with client product teams to understand problems, shape solutions, and deliver meaningful outcomes. · Collaborate with other designers on the Experience team to share feedback, ideas, and best practices. · Work alongside engineers, strategists, and delivery leads to bring designs to life effectively and efficiently. · Participate in agile workflows and balance multiple projects, clients, and industries while maintaining a high bar for craft. Innovation & Practice Growth · Experiment with AI-powered tools and workflows to improve efficiency, creativity, and design quality. · Contribute to internal initiatives such as marketing efforts, pitches, and business development. · Support the evolution of Robots & Pencils’ design practice through curiosity, experimentation, and continuous improvement. Required Skills & Experience · Two to five years of professional experience as a UX/UI Designer working on digital products or platforms. · Strong hands-on design skills with deep proficiency in Figma. · Experience working directly with clients or cross-functional product teams. · Experience building and maintaining design systems in real-world product environments. · A collaborative mindset with comfort giving and receiving design feedback. · Curiosity and enthusiasm for experimenting with AI tools and emerging technologies in design workflows. · Ability to adapt to design approaches across different industries, users, and problem spaces. · A desire to keep learning, improving, and trying new ways of working. Nice to Have · Comfort participating in workshops, critiques, or collaborative design sessions. · Exposure to motion design, advanced prototyping tools, or front-end concepts. · Experience exploring AI-assisted design, automation, or generative tools. · Familiarity working across a range of client verticals. How We Work You will collaborate most closely with client-side product teams and our internal Experience team of UX and UI designers. You will also partner with engineers, strategists, and delivery leads as needed to bring ideas to life. We value versatility, curiosity, and teamwork, and we support designers in growing their skills while doing meaningful, impactful work. Join Us Robots & Pencils is a fun, ambitious place to do the best work of your career. We move quickly, experiment often, and care deeply about craft, collaboration, and people. If you’re excited to design great experiences, explore how AI can enhance your process, and work with a team that genuinely enjoys building together, we’d love to meet you.