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Staff Product Designer (Visual Design & Systems), Autonomous Recruiting

Handshake· Design
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA)$225k - $250kFull-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

Staff Product Designer focused on visual design, systems, and crafting an AI-native recruiting product. Owns visual quality, the design system, and collaboration across product, engineering, and data to create an enterprise-grade, consumer-grade experience.

Responsibilities

  • Own the visual and interaction quality of the product's most important surfaces, from early exploration through shipped UI.
  • Own the design system for the Employer design team, keeping Figma and code in sync with engineering.
  • Define motion and micro-interactions that shape how an AI product feels to use.
  • Raise the bar for the whole team by leading craft reviews, pairing with designers, and documenting the principles behind good work.
  • Partner closely with product, engineering, and data to shape the product experience.
  • Collaborate with designers across the broader employer experience to ensure a coherent, unified product.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of product design experience, with a track record of setting the visual direction for a shipped B2B or prosumer product.
  • Exceptional visual craft, with typography, spacing, color, hierarchy, and density visibly strong across shipped work, including edge states.
  • Strong interaction and motion sense.
  • Experience owning or leading a design system, with good judgment about when to use, extend, or break from it.
  • Taste you can explain and teach, and a track record of raising the quality of work beyond your own team.
  • Fluent in code or close to it, and invested in shipped UI matching the design.
  • Strong product thinking and a bias toward simplicity.
  • Comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change, and excited to build something from scratch.

Skills

Required:Visual designDesign systemsMotion designCollaboration

Benefits

  • Ownership: Equity in a fast-growing company
  • Financial Wellness: 401(k) match, competitive compensation, financial coaching
  • Family Support: Paid parental leave, fertility benefits, parental coaching
  • Wellbeing: Medical, dental, and vision, mental health support, $500 wellness stipend
  • Growth: $2,000 learning stipend, ongoing development
  • Remote & Office: Internet, commuting, and free lunch/gym in our SF office
  • Time Off: Flexible PTO, 15 holidays + 2 flex days
  • Connection: Team outings & referral bonuses
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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