product designer for an HR platform

Personio provides an intelligent HR platform that helps small and medium-sized organizations simplify complicated, time-consuming tasks. Its user-friendly products serve more than 15,000 customers and 1.5 million employees.

• Manage end-to-end workstreams and provide product direction through goal-setting and planning
• Develop thoughtful, inclusive design strategies that balance ambitious, insight-driven goals with practical constraints
• Explore AI-enabled workflows and bring new approaches to the design process
• Create high-fidelity deliverables, including hand-coded or AI-assisted prototypes, to articulate and inform product vision
• Identify emerging design patterns and create reusable, extensible abstractions and frameworks that connect projects and prevent or reconcile avoidable divergence
• Elevate design through a culture of excellence and empathetic support, mentor designers and cross-functional peers, and provide constructive critique and feedback
• Define the functional strategy for the product area and coordinate with stakeholders across disciplines and levels to ensure high-quality work that responds to customer needs
• Help evolve Personio’s design practice by exploring and integrating new tools and methods

• Experience and passion in one or more areas of design, such as product thinking, interaction design, or crafted execution
• Skilled in using high-fidelity and AI-powered prototyping tools
• Experience extending or creating reusable frameworks, tooling, rituals, playbooks, patterns, or processes adopted by others to improve how teams work
• Ability to lead a product area in partnership with a cross-functional team
• Ability to elevate craft, proactively identify and drive initiatives, and raise quality across a product area
• Proven track record of shipping high-impact, multi-release product outcomes
• Autonomy, accountability, and mature decision-making; ability to thrive in ambiguity and bring clarity to complex or undefined spaces
• Hands-on experience using AI to improve workflows, with sound judgment about when to rely on it and when to step in

• Competitive reward package, reevaluated each year, including salary, benefits, and pre-IPO equity
• 28 Days of paid vacation, plus an additional day after 2 and 4 years
• One fully paid Impact Day
• Generous family leave, child support, mental health support, and sabbatical opportunities
• Mental health support includes 24 sessions per year with Oli for the employee and 10 sessions for a significant other
• Required attendance at the contracted office location 2 days per week; the remaining days can be worked from home or in the office
• 20 Flex Days per year to work remotely from other locations
• Meals, cultural initiatives, local Summer Sessions, year-end celebrations, healthy snacks, drinks, and weekly catered lunch