Student Assistant - AI Product Designer & Prototyper

About WPP

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com.

VML MAP’s Agentic AI Lab helps some of the world’s largest brands turn the AI shift into something tangible: from backstage tools that change how teams work, to user-facing applications, agents, demos, and prototypes people can actually experience. 

We are now looking for a student assistant to work closely with our AI Lead on the design and prototyping of user-facing AI solutions.

This is a hands-on product design role at the intersection of AI, UX, interface craft, and rapid prototyping. You will shape prototypes, apps, demos, and interactive concepts that make AI feel useful, understandable, and exciting for real users and clients. This is not about designing screens that disappear into a folder. It is about imagining new AI-powered experiences, designing them properly, and bringing them to life as functional apps and demos that prove the value of your ideas — using tools such as Figma, Claude Code, Codex, and other AI-assisted development tools. 

You will be involved in the full front-stage journey: from idea, to user flow, to interface design, to working prototype, to demo-ready experience. 

Caught your attention? Keep reading!

What will your day look like?

You will design and prototype user-facing AI experiences for large clients across industries including automotive, retail, financial services, and enterprise tools. 
The work may involve digital products, mobile apps, web experiences, service concepts, internal tools, live demos, and physical-digital journeys. 

Your role will be to shape the front stage: what users see, understand, click, type, and act on. You will help ask the questions that make an idea more interesting — what role could voice play? How should data show up without feeling overwhelming? How do we make it feel different from yet another AI chat app? 

The work is exploratory. Sometimes the question will not be “how do we improve this screen?” but “what should this experience even be now that AI is part of it?”

Who are you going to work with?

Becoming a part of the wider Agentic AI Lab, you will work closely with the AI Lead on user-facing AI product concepts, as well as: 

• Design product experiences, user flows, interface concepts, and prototypes in Figma.
• Translate early ideas into tangible product directions and interactive experiences.
• Use AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code and Codex to turn designs into working prototypes.
• Prepare prototypes and demos for clients, internal teams, and stakeholders.
• Collaborate with front-end developers to refine prototypes into product-ready applications.
• Research and benchmark modern AI products, interaction patterns, and emerging product behaviours. 

What do you bring to the table?

We are hiring for a mindset, not a background. 
You may be studying product design, interaction design, UX/UI design, service design, philosophy, creative technology, computer science, or something else entirely. Two of our AI leads came from philosophy — so the right profile is not always the obvious one on paper. 

What matters is how you think, how fast you learn, what you make, and whether you are excited by the combination of design, AI, prototyping, and product thinking. You should care about beautiful, useful interfaces — but also be curious about what happens behind them. 

You should however have: 

• Solid UX and UI design fundamentals and strong Figma skills — auto-layout should be a close friend.
• Strong visual taste and attention to detail.
• Ability to think in user journeys, not only individual screens.
• Interest in AI products, assistants, copilots, agents, and new forms of human-AI interaction.
• Experience or strong interest in using vibe coding / AI-assisted development tools to turn designs into working prototypes.
• Ability to work with ambiguity and combine creativity with execution.
• A portfolio or examples of digital product design work that shows how you think. 

What is also nice to have in this role: 

• Experience designing AI-related features, conversational interfaces, copilots, or agentic workflows.
• Basic understanding of front-end development concepts.
• Experience creating interactive or coded prototypes.
• Interest in CRM and marketing-specific experiences such as customer journeys, personalisation, or marketing automation.
• Experience working with design systems.
• Interest in how digital experiences can connect with physical environments. 

A leader in personalized customer experiences

VML MAP is a world-leading Centre of Excellence that helps businesses humanize the relationship between the brand and the customer through hyper personalization at scale, marketing automation and CRM. With the brain of a consultancy, the heart of an agency and the power of technology and data, we work with some of the world's most admired brands to help them on their transformation journey to becoming truly customer-centric. Together, we are 1000 + technology specialists, data scientists, strategic thinkers, consultants, operations experts, and creative minds from 55+ nationalities.

A global network

We are part of the global VML network that encompasses more than 30,000 employees across 150+ offices in 60+ markets, each contributing to a culture that values connection, belonging, and the power of differences. 

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WPP (VML MAP) is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers. 

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