Product Designer

Role Details

Experience Level: Senior

Location: San Francisco, CA. This role is based 2 days per week out of our San Francisco, HQ and is not eligible for full-time remote work.

Compensation: The annual salary range for this role is $177,550 - $197,500 in addition to equity & benefits.

The range displayed on this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum compensation. Factors including  level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience will determine compensation.

About Gem

Gem is the AI-powered recruiting platform TA teams love. It helps you maximize productivity, hire faster, and save money – all while giving recruiters a solution they find easy to use. Use Gem as your all-in-one recruiting platform or enhance your existing ATS with integrated products for CRM, sourcing, scheduling, analytics, career sites, events, and more. Over 1,000 companies – from startups to industry leaders like Airbnb, Wayfair, Cintas, Carmax, Doordash, and Zillow – trust Gem to hire with speed and ease. See why Gem is the recruiting industry’s most beloved solution, with a 4.8/5 rating on G2. 

With Gem, you can:

• Attract, engage, and hire talent faster: Build talent pipelines across all channels through sourcing, nurture, events, career sites, inbound, and more. With Gem, teams can source talent five times faster and double their talent pipelines.
• Maximize recruiter productivity: Use AI and automation to save time on routine tasks like reviewing applications, scheduling interviews, and managing follow-ups. Recruiters using Gem can review twice as many applications, schedule twice as many interviews, and engage four times as many candidates as before.
• Unlock data-driven recruiting: Get analytics that everyone can use. Debug your funnel, monitor pipelines, forecast hiring, and demonstrate impact, all without complex BI tools. With Gem, TA teams use data to position themselves as strategic partners to the business.
• Simplify your tech stack and cut costs: Consolidate multiple tools into one platform and reduce your spend on recruiting technology, external sourcing, and job boards by up to 50%. Save on standalone solutions with Gem’s end-to-end bundle and take advantage of past candidate relationships to reduce your reliance on sourcing new talent.

And just as we strive to help our customers find great talent, we also invest in our own people and culture. We are proud of the culture we’ve built and have recently been recognized as: 

• Forbes America's Best Startup Employers 2024
• Great Place to Work Certified, 2023
• Fortune Best Workplaces for Millennials, 2023

The company has raised $148M in funding from Accel, Greylock, ICONIQ, and more.

The Team & Role

As a product designer at Gem, you will have the opportunity to design experiences customers love. Really: customer delight is at the center of how we build products and we’re committed to redefining what great design means in business software. 

You’ll lead critical end-to-end experiences for the business, engage with passionate customers, and collaborate with designers, product managers, engineers, sales, and success reps to build powerful features. Help us s push Gem’s user experience to the next level using your full range of product thinking, interaction design, and visual design skills.

Work with expert cross-functional peers from companies like Meta, Dropbox, Airbnb, Google, Coursera, Workday, and more. If you are passionate about engaging directly with customers, designing intuitive and easy-to-use products, and simplifying complexity, we'd love to hear from you!

What You’ll Do Day-to-Day:

• Lead the end-to-end design process of major features for the Gem product.
• Define or contribute to the strategy of multiple product areas.
• Collaborate closely with the engineering team, product team, and customers to define and design solutions.
• Work on 0-to-1 problems as well as 1-to-1.1 (and beyond) projects.
• Design for emerging technologies, including AI, in a thoughtful and responsible way.
• Own design across the entire business by proactively identifying the highest-impact areas for design prioritization, and partner with stakeholders to prioritize.
• Establish and advocate for UX best practices and up-level the quality of design across the product.
• Contribute to design team culture and processes.

About You:

• 5+ years of experience designing and shipping digital products is preferred.
• Deep knowledge of the product development process, from product thinking to visual and interaction design.
• Ability to produce polished, high-fidelity mockups and prototypes of product workflows.
• Motivated self-starter who can work closely with cross-functional partners in product, engineering, research and marketing.
• A growth mindset with a willingness to own problems and results, as well as comfort with ambiguity.
• Strong eye for visual design and a passion for design craft.

Gem is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate our inclusive work environment and encourage folks of all backgrounds and perspectives to apply. At Gem, we’re committed to having an inclusive and transparent environment where every voice is heard and acknowledged. We embrace our differences, and know that our diverse team is a strength that drives our success. 

Gem is committed to developing a barrier-free recruitment process and work environment. If you require any accommodation, please email us at we’ll work with you to meet your accessibility needs.

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