Full-Time

Senior Product Designer

CloudFactory

CloudFactory

1,001-5,000 employees

AI-assisted data labeling and processing services

No salary listed

Berlin, Germany

Hybrid

Category
UI/UX & Design (1)
Required Skills
Interaction Design
Agile
Figma
Information Architecture
Graphic Design
Product Design
Data Analysis

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Requirements
  • At least 5 years of Product Design (UX/UI) experience with a strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end design processes for complex digital products or platforms.
  • Experience independently planning, conducting, and synthesizing user research to drive design decisions.
  • Mastery of interaction design, user flows, information architecture, and high-fidelity interactive prototyping.
  • Strong visual design capability with hands-on experience working with and contributing to design systems.
  • Experience setting performance goals or objectives and driving cross-functional alignment with Product Management and Engineering.
  • Experience mentoring, coaching, or guiding junior designers and participating in design critiques.
  • Deep knowledge of user-centered design principles, accessibility standards, and modern design tools such as Figma.
Responsibilities
  • Plan and drive end-to-end user research using appropriate generative and evaluative research methods to uncover complex user needs and motivations.
  • Synthesize research findings, data, and user insights into actionable recommendations for product decisions and business strategy.
  • Select techniques and tools to define goals, develop user stories, and elicit functional and usability requirements for complex systems.
  • Specify measurable criteria for product usability and accessibility across platforms.
  • Design complex interaction flows, detailed user paths, and edge cases across varied user contexts.
  • Create high-fidelity interactive prototypes for user testing, validation, and stakeholder alignment.
  • Deliver scalable, user-centered visual designs incorporating visual identity and branding standards.
  • Identify opportunities to improve visual and interaction design within the design system and propose implementation solutions.
  • Plan and implement clear information architecture and content organization to support findability and task completion.
  • Use iterative design approaches to integrate user feedback and testing results into product iterations.
  • Advocate for user-centered design principles, accessibility standards, and usability best practices throughout product development.
  • Set and manage personal objectives aligned with departmental goals, leading by example to focus the team on outcomes.
  • Mentor junior designers through personalized coaching plans, constructive feedback, and professional growth support.
  • Introduce new methodologies, tools, and industry trends to the product team.
  • Participate in peer reviews and help establish organizational standards and methods for research and design.
  • Partner with Product Managers and Engineering from discovery through launch, balancing user needs, business goals, and technical feasibility.
  • Manage cross-functional dependencies and translate complex concepts between technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Identify and resolve team process bottlenecks to optimize design-to-development workflows.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience designing complex business-to-business software-as-a-service products, enterprise platforms, data-heavy applications, or artificial-intelligence/machine-learning-driven user interfaces.
  • Experience building, scaling, or maintaining enterprise design systems.
  • A track record of defining organizational design standards and research frameworks.
  • Experience working in high-growth, fast-paced, and Agile development environments.
  • Experience designing platforms with multiple distinct user types, roles, or permission levels.
  • Experience working directly with Engineering on implementation details, including writing tickets, defining edge cases, and adjusting scope for technical constraints.

CloudFactory provides data labeling and data processing services using a managed workforce combined with AI-assisted labeling. It handles text, audio, and image annotation and specializes in financial document processing, healthcare AI data, retail automation, and geospatial AI initiatives. Clients can use CloudFactory’s platform to manage annotation work or integrate it with their own tools, enabling scalable, high-quality data for training AI models. The company differentiates itself through its large, experienced workforce (25+ million hours of data work) and its ability to deliver accurate labels five times faster than traditional methods, with faster turnaround and cost efficiency. Its goal is to help clients accelerate AI development and bring AI-powered solutions to market more quickly while optimizing business operations and reducing costs.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

Early VC

Total Funding

$78M

Headquarters

Durham, North Carolina

Founded

2010

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Kevin Johnston became CEO in January 2024, sharpening execution after founder transition.
  • CloudFactory launched Accelerated Annotation, claiming 5x faster labeling with sustained quality.
  • 2024 leadership hires in CFO, CRO, and COO strengthen scaling across sales and operations.

What critics are saying

  • OpenAI, Scale AI, and Appen compress pricing by automating annotation workflows.
  • If enterprise buyers shift to synthetic data, CloudFactory’s labor-heavy model erodes fast.
  • Mission-driven hiring loses appeal if margins weaken and contracts move to cheaper vendors.

What makes CloudFactory unique

  • CloudFactory pairs human-in-the-loop labeling with AI-assisted workflows and orchestration.
  • Ajai Sharma’s 2026 Safety Net pitch targets production AI, not just annotation.
  • The 2022 Hasty acquisition extends CloudFactory beyond labor into data-centric vision tooling.

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Business Wire
Jul 30th, 2025
CloudFactory Appoints Ajai Sharma as Chief Product & Technology Officer

CloudFactory appoints Ajai Sharma as Chief Product & Technology Officer.

Chronicle-Tribune
Jan 9th, 2024
CloudFactory Appoints Kevin Johnston as CEO, Mark Sears Transitions to Executive Chairman

CloudFactory, a global leader in human-in-the-loop artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, today announced the appointment of Kevin Johnston as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective January 1, 2024.

Delano
Jun 2nd, 2023
Cloud Factory named 36th best pizzeria in Europe | Delano News

Launched only three years ago as a ghost kitchen in Neudorf, Cloud Factory opened a larger, dine-in restaurant in Esch in October 2022.

Digital Journal
May 29th, 2023
Data Annotation and Labeling Market: Enabling AI-Driven Insights with Accurate and Comprehensive Data Annotations | Amazon Mechanical Turk, Figure Eight Inc. (Appen), CloudFactory Ltd.

➤ CloudFactory Ltd. announced the acquisition of Dataloop, an AI data platform, in 2022 to expand its data annotation capabilities and provide end-to-end AI data solutions.

OpenPR
Apr 5th, 2023
Data Annotation Tools Market: Growing Demand, Business

For instance, in October 2020, CloudFactory, a global leader in managed workforce solutions for artificial intelligence introduced a new computer vision offering, Data Annotation Solution, that bales their professionally managed workforce with a market-leading data annotation platform.