product designer for an HR platform

Personio’s intelligent HR platform helps small and medium-sized organizations simplify complicated, time-consuming tasks and make them more efficient. Its products serve over 15,000 customers and 1.5 million employees.

• Manage entire workstreams, providing 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
• Uplift design through a culture of excellence and empathetic support, mentoring designers and cross-functional peers, and providing 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 design areas, such as product thinking, interaction design, and crafted execution
• Skilled in 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 the product area
• Proven track record of shipping high-impact, multi-release product outcomes
• Autonomy, accountability, and mature decision-making; able 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 personally

• 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, including 24 sessions per year with Oli for the employee and 10 sessions for a significant other, and sabbatical opportunities
• Meals, cultural initiatives, local Summer Sessions, year-end celebrations, healthy snacks and drinks, and a weekly catered lunch
• Two office days per week are required; the remaining days can be worked from home or the office. 20 Flex Days per year are available for remote work from other locations