Personio

product designer for an HR platform

In short

Senior product designer role at Personio, an intelligent HR platform serving over 15,000 customers and 1.5 million employees. The role covers end-to-end design leadership for a product area, from goal-setting and strategy to high-fidelity AI-assisted prototyping and mentoring other designers. It demands a proven track record of shipping high-impact product outcomes, strong craft and cross-functional leadership skills, and hands-on experience using AI in design workflows. Hybrid work is required, with 2 office days per week in Munich, Berlin, or London.

About Personio
Personio provides an intelligent HR platform that helps small and medium-sized organizations simplify complicated, time-consuming tasks. Its user-friendly products serve more than 15,000 customers and 1.5 million employees.
Responsibilities
•Manage end-to-end workstreams and provide 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
•Elevate design through a culture of excellence and empathetic support, mentor designers and cross-functional peers, and provide 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 areas of design, such as product thinking, interaction design, or crafted execution
•Skilled in using 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 a product area
•Proven track record of shipping high-impact, multi-release product outcomes
•Autonomy, accountability, and mature decision-making; ability 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
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, and sabbatical opportunities
•Mental health support includes 24 sessions per year with Oli for the employee and 10 sessions for a significant other
•Required attendance at the contracted office location 2 days per week; remaining days can be worked from home or in the office
•20 Flex Days per year to work remotely from other locations
•Meals, cultural initiatives, local Summer Sessions, year-end celebrations, healthy snacks, drinks, and weekly catered lunch

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