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Staff Product Designer (Visual Design & Systems), Autonomous Recruiting
$225K–$250K
San Francisco, CA · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 14, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of product design experience, with a track record of setting visual direction for a shipped B2B or prosumer product.
About the job
Sets visual and interaction direction for a new AI-native recruiting product and leads the Employer design system and team craft.
What you'll do
- Own visual and interaction quality across key product surfaces, from exploration through shipped UI.
- Lead the Employer design system, keeping Figma and code aligned with engineering; define motion and micro-interactions.
- Raise design quality through craft reviews, pairing, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration.
What they ask for
- Exceptional visual craft across shipped work, including edge states, and strong interaction and motion sense.
- Experience owning or leading a design system, with judgment about when to use, extend, or break from it.
- Fluent in code or close to it, and invested in shipped UI matching the design.
- Strong product thinking, simplicity, and ability to explain and teach design judgment.
Nice to have
- Experience designing for an AI-native product, including chat, composer, and agent interaction patterns.
Pay
$225K – $250K (base salary)
Tools
Figma
AI focus
Designs an AI-native recruiting product and defines motion and micro-interactions that shape how it feels to use.
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