Product Designer at Cogent Labs

About Cogent

Founded in 2014, Cogent Labs is devoted to providing innovative solutions to real-world problems in order to improve people’s quality of work and life through intelligent automation.

We believe achieving this goal requires a deep understanding of customers' needs and practices in order to build products that can leverage the power of custom AI models through a carefully crafted UI and UX. Our main product is SmartRead, a generic and versatile solution for automating digital and analog document processing for a wide range of businesses.

Headquartered in Tokyo, we are a diverse company with international members from 20 different countries. We are looking for exceptional talent with deep domain expertise that are eager to work with our team on crafting and delivering unique value to our customers.

What we offer

• Competitive Salary - Based on skills and experience
• Performance bonus eligibility twice a year
• Stock Options
• Work Hours - Standard work hours 9:00 -18:00 with flex time system with core hours
• Telework Policy - up to 3 days per week work from home
• Paid Holiday - Maximum 20 days per year (additional Congratulatory, Bereavement leaves available)
• Holiday - Sat & Sun, Japanese National Holidays, and Year-end and New Year holidays

Benefits

• Visa Sponsorship
• Support for language training
• Free in-office breakfast, coffee, tea, drinks and snacks
• Subsidized gym membership
• Monthly commute expense
• Japanese Social Security - all applicable (Health Insurance, Pension, employment insurance etc.)
• Maternity leave, childcare leave (including male employees)
• Yearly health checkup

Job Summary

Cogent Labs is looking for a Product Designer (UI/UX) with 4+ years of relevant experience to help us drive Customer Experience success by applying human-centered design principles. In this role, you will transform brand value and strategic insights into compelling design solutions, effectively addressing both customer needs and business objectives.

Successful candidates will join a highly skilled team, with the opportunity to design, build, test, and deploy high-quality products, and contribute to the processes and practices that make for a fun and effective engineering team.

If you’re looking for an opportunity to build cutting edge products that solve real world problems, you’ve found it.

Responsibilities

Work with cross-functional teams to create innovative digital products, including interfaces, design systems, and prototypes.
Ensure high-quality, user-friendly designs while presenting and refining concepts with stakeholders and the Design Lead.

Required skills

• At least 4 years of experience in a UI/UX design role.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating expertise in visual and UX/UI design.
• Act as an advisor to business and technical stakeholders, on design practices that demonstrates value to our customers.
• Ability to plan long-term while assessing value, risks, and business outcomes.
• Proficiency in using Figma and its component library capabilities.
• Expertise in developing creative design solutions for responsive web platforms.
• Experience in hands-on UX (user flows, information architecture, user testing, etc.)
• Fluency in English, with a deep understanding of Japanese B2B practices and culture.

Nice-to-have skills

• Fluency in Japanese