Principal Agent Experience Designer
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OutSystems Job Description Principal AX (Agent Experience) Designer
About This Role
As a Principal AX (Agentic Experience) Designer at OutSystems, you will pioneer an entirely new design discipline, one where the “user” is no longer mainly human. You will define how AI agents navigate, operate, and succeed within our platform, while ensuring human oversight remains clear, trustworthy, and seamless when needed.
This role sits at the frontier of the UX → UAX → AX evolution. Traditional UX designed for humans navigating screens. User-Agent Experience (UAX) designed for humans and agents co-navigating. Agentic Experience (AX) designs for agents operating autonomously. You will lead the internal and external AX frontier while bridging all three eras.
Working closely with Product Management, Engineering, AI teams, and Research, you will transform our platform into an agent-ready substrate: machine-legible, safe by design, observable by default, and cost-aware. You will define and design the new deliverables required for agents to use our tools.
As a principal-level leader, you will mentor designers in this new discipline, influence product strategy, and evangelize agent-first design principles across the R&D organization.
The Mission: Move beyond "chatbots" and design the world’s first truly agent-operable development platform. You aren't just designing screens; you are designing the logic, safety, and transparency that allow agents to build software autonomously.
Key Responsibilities
Design the Agent Interface Layer
Define and design the machine-operable substrate beneath/alongside the UI. Make inter-agent and agent to internal and external systems communication clear/intuitive/agent readable.
Define and develop the new design assets required for AX, the experience artifacts, specifications, and governance frameworks that agents need to operate successfully. This includes operation contracts, behaviour policies, trust specifications, and evaluation criteria, deliverables that don't yet have established conventions and that this role will help invent.
Lead the AX Design Lifecycle
Own the end-to-end AX design process: Model → Contract → Constrain → Observe → Validate → Run → Learn → Version.
Define operability gates for every agent workflow: determinism, safety, observability, recoverability, and economics.
Build evaluation frameworks: golden tasks, regression sets, and adversarial scenarios that gate every capability version change.
Design for all three oversight modes, interactive, supervised, and lights-out, specifying the appropriate mode per operation and risk profile.
Bridge UX, UAX, and AX
Design dual-layer journey maps with human experience and agent operations as parallel swim lanes, identifying delegation moments and oversight touchpoints.
Define an operating model for trust per operation: when humans interact, when they supervise, and when agents run autonomously.
Champion dual legibility, every element must be readable by humans and interpretable by agents.
Shape Strategy and Practice
Influence product vision and department strategy for agent-readiness and AI-native design.
Establish AX design standards, patterns, and best practices across the R&D organization.
Contribute to the evolution of the design system to support agent-facing components, semantic structures, and observability surfaces.
Evangelize agent-first design thinking across Product, Engineering, and leadership.
Lead and Develop People
Mentor and guide a team of designers through the UX-to-AX transition, building fluency in semantic architecture, process modeling, and exception design.
Drive reskilling from empathy-first to precision-first design: from user research toward process analysis, from emotional design toward semantic architecture, from session thinking toward system optimization.
Foster collaboration and a shared vision for design excellence across all three experience eras.
Qualifications / What You Need To Succeed (Hiring manager provides)
8+ years of experience in UX, Product Design, or related design disciplines.
Demonstrated experience designing for complex B2B SaaS or platform products.
Strong foundation in systems thinking, information architecture, and semantic design, the ability to design structure and logic, not just interfaces.
Experience in building operating models and conceptual design.
Experience working in and leading cross-functional teams (design, engineering, product management, AI/ML).
Experience with the full design lifecycle: research, ideation, prototyping, testing, iteration, and delivery in Agile environments.
Expert in Figma, Figma make, Cursor, Claude Code, Codex and modern design tools.
Excellent communication skills, the ability to articulate complex agent-system interactions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Fluent in English, both spoken and written.
Specific to AX design
Agentic Logic & Orchestration: Deep fluency in LLM patterns (ReAct, Chain-of-Thought) and the ability to design state-machines, tool-use contracts, and autonomous workflows that an agent can reliably follow.
Systemic Reliability & Exception Design: Experience designing for non-deterministic systems. You know how to architect "graceful failures," hand-off protocols, and recovery paths for when AI hits a hallucination or a tool-call error.
Information Architecture (IA) 2.0: Mastery of semantic modeling and machine-legible design. You organize data not just for human eyes, but for vector embeddings, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), and typed schemas.
The Navigator × Oversight Matrix: Ability to design across all interaction modes, from Interactive (Human-led) to Supervised (Co-pilot) to Lights-out (Fully autonomous) ensuring observability, auditability, and cost-awareness at every stage.
Technical Canvas: You are as comfortable navigating API documentation, JSON structures, and capability contracts as you are in Figma. You treat the "substrate" of the platform as your primary design surface.
Strong Advantages
Knowledge of low-code platforms, software development processes, or IDE design.
Background in process engineering, service design, or operations design.
Experience with capability/contract design, API design, or developer experience (DX).
Experience designing for trust, delegation, and human-AI collaboration patterns.
The Longer Story:
OutSystems is a global leader transforming how companies innovate through software, empowering IT leaders with a better way to build the software that matters most.We are looking for talented and motivated people to join us in helping companies solve some of their most strategic business challenges, from modernizing their workplace processes to transforming their employee and customer experiences. As a member of the OutSystems global team, you will help build, deliver, manage, and evolve the software that is a low-code market leader and preferred by professional developers around the world.
OutSystems is a truly global company, with more than 800,000 developer community members, 1,700 employees, more than 500 partners, and thousands of active customers in over 75 countries and across 21 industries. Founded in 2001, OutSystems has offices in the United States, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Portugal, Germany, the UAE, Japan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Australia, India, and Singapore, and of course has a thriving, worldwide community of remote employees.
Working at OutSystems
Our goal is to ensure that OutSystems is a place for bright, happy, and motivated people who share a common purpose and take pride in excellent work towards our vision. Our culture is focused on building agility at scale, which allows us to operate with a high drive in a competitive market. In our federation of teams culture, if we have every team operating like a startup, we can all learn, grow, and innovate while having the space to be proactive and creative. We encourage our team members to collaborate, focus on results, act quickly, understand our business, and adopt a growth mindset.
What do we have to offer you?
A company that continues to grow, change and innovate, and gives our teams the space to be proactive and creative.
Real career opportunities. We care about growth and development. Vertical career progression is an obvious possibility, but we also offer the possibility for lateral moves, joining different teams, and mastering specific skills.
Work colleagues that are as smart, hardworking and driven as you – and a team that is global.
Disrupting the status quo is in our DNA. In fact, it’s why our company exists.
We “Ask Why” a lot. It helps us connect our individual work to the bigger picture and sometimes even uncover a better way.
Are you ready for the next step in your career? Then we’d love to hear from you!
OutSystems nurtures an inclusive culture of diversity, where everyone feels empowered to be their authentic self and perform at their best. A company that embraces the creativity and innovation that comes through diverse perspectives. We are committed to creating a team that reflects society through inclusive programs and initiatives and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive equal consideration regardless of race, place of origin, color, age, marital status, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, protected veteran status, disability status or any other status protected by law.
More about OutSystems
OutSystems is a leading AI Development Platform built for the enterprise. Global organizations trust OutSystems to rapidly build mission-critical apps and agents, modernize legacy processes with agentic systems, and govern their entire AI portfolio across complex regulatory environments, all on one unified platform.
As the future becomes agentic, our customers need us now more than ever. While AI has opened the door to extraordinary possibilities, most large organizations find themselves stuck on one side of the "enterprise gap" because AI by itself doesn't solve their complex use cases and business challenges. OutSystems bridges the "enterprise gap" by combining the speed of generative AI with a deterministic, enterprise-grade framework. We provide the tools for teams of any size to deliver high-quality, reliable AI solutions that drive real business impact.
We are looking for passionate, talented, and motivated people to join us as we empower organizations to build, deploy, and scale the next generation of enterprise software. While we are leading the charge into the agentic era, our mission is broader: we are the platform enterprise leaders trust to evolve their entire business, accelerating innovation through secure, governed human-AI collaboration.
OutSystems is a global company, with more than 900k developer community members, 1,700 employees, more than 600 partners, and thousands of active customers in over 75 countries and across 21 industries. Founded in 2001, OutSystems now has offices in the United States, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Portugal, Germany, the UAE, Japan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Australia, India, and Singapore, and includes a thriving, worldwide community of remote employees.
Our customers are some of the world's most recognizable brands across diverse industries— such as Toyota, Heineken, Bosch, KeyBank, and UCLA—who trust OutSystems to deliver ROI and transformational impact.
Consistently recognized as a leader by top analyst firms Gartner, IDC and Forrester, OutSystems continues to shape the future of enterprise software development in the agentic era. We are proud to be named a leader in more than 100 categories on G2, including #1 in Customer Satisfaction in Enterprise Low Code Development, and most recently as a leader in AI Agent Building in the G2 Spring 2026 Reports.
Working at OutSystems
Our culture is built on our core values of Trust, Customer Success, Innovation, and Alignment. We operate as one global OutSystems team, taking ownership to pursue our vision of being the AI platform enterprise leaders trust to build, secure, and evolve their most critical applications and systems.
What do we have to offer you?
A company at the vanguard of the agentic revolution, where we don’t just react to AI innovation—we architect it. Joining OutSystems means stepping onto a high-growth rocket ship that combines the fearless agility of a startup with the sophisticated, global foundation of an enterprise powerhouse.
Real growth opportunities. We don't just talk about development; we invest in it through structured programs designed to scale your expertise. Whether you are aiming for vertical progression, exploring lateral moves into new domains, or mastering specialized AI skills through our Professional Development Fund and Internal Mobility Program, we provide the resources to get you there.
A global collective of world-class talent, where you’ll collaborate with enterprise software legends and sought-after thought leaders. At OutSystems, our industry experts aren't just visionaries—they are accessible, approachable mentors who are deeply invested in your growth as we architect the agentic future together.
OutSystems nurtures an inclusive culture where talented individuals from all backgrounds are empowered to learn, experiment and make an impact. . We believe that driving our next phase of growth requires the radical creativity that only comes from diverse perspectives. We are committed to building a team as global and diverse as the organizations we serve, ensuring every individual can perform to their full potential. As an equal opportunity employer, all qualified applicants receive equal consideration regardless of race, origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status.