At Siemens, we help organizations transform maintenance and operations through connected insights, AI-powered technology, and intelligent asset management solutions. Our software enables customers to manage the full lifecycle of assets, facilities, and infrastructure while improving efficiency, reducing risk, and optimizing long-term investments. By connecting data, people, and processes, we empower organizations to make smarter decisions, maximize asset performance, and achieve more resilient operations.

As a Lead Product Designer at Siemens, you’re a design leader in practice — even without a management title. You’ll operate at the intersection of design craft and strategic influence, shaping product direction, setting team quality standards, and building design capability across the organization. You’ll own the most complex design problems, represent design in stakeholder conversations, and be a formative influence on Siemens’ AI-powered product experiences. This role suits designers with 7–10+ years of experience who are ready to lead without authority.

Core Responsibilities:

Own design strategy and vision for a product domain, aligning user outcomes with business goals. Lead complex, cross-team and platform-level design challenges while setting and maintaining design quality standards. Shape product roadmaps through research, user insights, and design thinking, representing design with senior leaders and stakeholders. Evolve and govern the design system, defining scalable patterns and standards. Provide technical design leadership through mentoring, feedback, pair-designing, and skills development, without direct people management responsibilities. Drive research-informed design by partnering with research teams and translating findings into strategic decisions. Define the AI design vision and principles for your domain, including trust, explainability, automation, and user control. Lead high-impact AI-powered experiences and establish scalable AI design standards across Siemens. Evaluate AI design tools, build team AI fluency, and contribute to responsible and ethical AI practices.

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.7-10+ years of progressive product design experience with a strong technical/design leadership trajectory. Advanced Figma and design toolchain expertise, including prototyping, design tokens, and design system governance at scale. Proven ability to lead complex, cross-team design programs and shape product strategy through design. Strong research skills, from framing questions and partnering on studies to applying insights to design strategy. Strong executive communication and ability to influence senior stakeholders through evidence-based design decisions. Portfolio demonstrating design leadership, strategic impact, and measurable user outcomes. Nice to have: AI product design from concept to scale; industrial, infrastructure, healthcare, or enterprise software experience; facilitation of design sprints, vision workshops, or futures thinking; principal/design system leadership; or organizational design operations and practice-building.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Why us?

Working at Siemens Software means flexibility - Choosing between working at home and the office at other times is the norm here. We offer great benefits and rewards, as you'd expect from a world leader in industrial software. A collection of over 377,000 minds building the future one day at a time in over 200 countries. We're dedicated to equality, and we welcome applications that reflect the diversity of the communities we work in. All employment decisions at Siemens are based on qualifications, merit, and business need. Bring your curiosity and creativity and help us shape tomorrow!

Our Benefits & Rewards

The salary range for this position is $44,000 to $96,700 and this role is eligible to earn incentive compensation. The actual compensation offered is based on the successful candidate's job-related skills, experience, and relevant education/training. Siemens offers health and wellness benefits to employees; you can access the benefits available in your country via the link: https://jobs.sw.siemens.com/benefits/

We value your unique identity and perspective. We are fully committed to providing equitable opportunities and building a workplace that reflects the diversity of society, while ensuring that we attract the best talent based on qualifications, skills, and experiences. We welcome you to bring your authentic self and transform the every day with us.

Siemens Software. Transform the Every day.