Lead AI Solutions DesignerWork Mode: Onsite
Location:Onsite, four days per week - New York, NY
OpportunityThe AI Solutions Design Lead translates business needs intoclearly defined AI agents and digital tools that improve how GPI teams work andmake decisions. As part of the Augmenta core team, this role leads discoveryworkshops, specifies solution functionality, and partners with the AIEnablement Team to build, test, and refine prototypes for use in new productdevelopment.
Augmenta is a human-led, AI-augmented product developmentsystem that connects intelligence, decision-making, and execution to increaseproduct success and bring the right products to market faster. This roleinitially supports insights and early NPD workflows, with scope expandingacross GPI as priorities evolve.
Specific Responsibilities- Discover and define opportunities. Facilitate workshops with product management, design, insights, engineering, operations, and other functions. Identify user needs, decision bottlenecks, repetitive tasks, and evidence gaps. Translate findings into scoped use cases with target users, expected outcomes, assumptions, and measurable success criteria.
- Specify agent and tool functionality. Develop functional requirements, user stories, interaction flows, and acceptance criteria. Define inputs, outputs, knowledge sources, agent actions, system connections, human review points, and behavior when information is missing or uncertain. Distinguish essential pilot capabilities from future enhancements.
- Build and refine prototypes. Work directly with AI/IT engineers to explore feasible approaches and develop working prototypes. Create mockups, prompt instructions, and low-code demonstrations where appropriate. Resolve functional questions during development and refine solutions through short cycles of user feedback.
- Validate usefulness and quality. Design representative test scenarios and coordinate user acceptance testing with functional experts. Evaluate task completion, evidence traceability, output quality, usability, and exceptions. Document limitations and recommend whether to advance, revise, or stop a solution based on agreed criteria.
- Prepare solutions for delivery. Maintain requirements, decision records, evaluation results, and reusable design patterns. Partner with the Workbench Product Manager on feature integration and backlog readiness, the Program Manager on dependencies, and the Change Management Lead on guidance and rollout preparation.
- Demonstrate business impact. Establish pilot baselines with business owners and compare results for time saved, rework, output usefulness, and decision readiness. Use findings to improve solutions and inform prioritization. Ensure evidence supporting ownability, desirability, and viability remains traceable to approved sources and human judgment.
Skills/RequirementsRequired Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree in design, engineering, business, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least seven years of relevant experience in product development, business analysis, service design, digital product development, or workflow transformation, including delivery across multiple functions.
- Demonstrated ability to facilitate discovery workshops and turn ambiguous business needs into functional requirements, user stories, prototypes, and testable acceptance criteria.
- Practical experience designing or configuring AI agents, automation, or AI-enabled tools, with working knowledge of prompts, connected knowledge sources, evaluation, and human review.
- Experience partnering with engineers and subject matter experts to test solutions, resolve trade-offs, and translate pilot findings into delivery recommendations.
- Strong communication, structured problem-solving, and stakeholder influence, with the ability to explain capabilities and limitations to technical and business audiences.
Preferred Qualifications: - Experience in consumer products, manufacturing, or stage-gate NPD, including insights, concept development, validation, and cross-functional handoffs.
- Experience with Microsoft Copilot Studio, Power Automate, or comparable enterprise AI and low-code platforms.
- Experience with knowledge management, research workflows, usability testing, and evidence-based product decisions.
Applicants must be authorized to work in the US without requiring sponsorship now or in the future.We believe in supporting you from the moment you join us, which is why Kohler offers day 1 benefits. This means you'll have access to your applicable benefit programs from your first day on the job, with no waiting period. The salary range for this position is $113,150 - $175,150. The specific salary offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including the candidate's experience, their education, and the work location. In addition, this position is eligible for a performance bonus/variable incentive compensation.
