Principal Product Designer

Inception
42, a G42 company, is the region’s leading innovator of AI-powered domain-specific as well as industry-agnostic products, built on a rich heritage of research and development. Within the G42 ecosystem, Inception functions as the core intelligence layer – transforming data and compute infrastructure into real-world, applied AI solutions. Beyond its commercial endeavors, Inception is committed to creating positive societal impact. For more information, please visit www.inception
42.ai

G42 is building the compute, cloud, and data foundations for advanced AI to work at scale across government, healthcare, energy, finance and more.

Within G42, Inception
42 is the layer that turns infrastructure into products people actually use. Our mission is to make advanced AI reliable, sovereign, and genuinely useful for some of the most important institutions and companies in the world. Our agentic systems strive to carry out real work rather than simply answer questions:
Alpha, InSight and Vantage are applications for domain-specific intelligence; and Catalyst, our agentic platform, serves organisations who build and run agents while keeping sensitive data within the UAE.

We are looking for a hands-on Principal Product Designer to lead design work and manage a design pod across our AI-native portfolio: personal AI agents, executive intelligence, agentic workflows, governance platforms, and domain-specific solutions.

This is a role for an inventor. Your central job is to translate abstract vision — an executive ambition, a policy goal, a model capability that appeared six months ago — into concrete, innovative products that people trust and use every day. Your work will define how people should delegate real work to autonomous systems, and stay in control of the outcomes achieved by AI that are inherently non-deterministic.

You will own design from discovery through delivery, set the craft bar and the design systems across multiple products, and redefine the product design best practices  will work at the boundary of design, product, and applied AI — shaping not only the interface, but how the AI behaves with it.

• Define the product design vision, experience principles, and quality bar across Inception
  42’s portfolio.
• Translate abstract vision and emerging AI capability into concrete, innovative product concepts — and then into shipped experiences.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and Science teams to shape product strategy and roadmaps, for both the near term and the long term.
• Turn business and government requirements into use cases and high-level customer experiences.
• Drive sharper design thinking and seamless processes across Inception
  42

• Work fast and run several projects at once, comfortable with ambiguity while managing stakeholder input, functional requirements, and timelines.
• Lead discovery, UX research, journey mapping, interaction design, prototyping, usability tests, and production.
• Own the full life cycle of AI-native design projects, from design strategy through to execution and launch.
• Design for AI uncertainty and failure with checks and balances to mitigate potential incorrect or fabricated output, incomplete information, refusals, streaming and latency, tool errors, and non-deterministic behaviour.
• Design intuitive experiences for AI agents, copilots, multi-agent systems, dashboards and conversational interfaces, and AI workflows across interaction patterns (memory, citations, long-running actions, etc.)
• Make AI capabilities and their limits legible, so users can calibrate their trust based on expected performance.
• Partner with Product, Engineering and Science teams to align AI…