About: 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.
Responsibilities:
•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
Requirements:
•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
Conditions/Benefits:
•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
