SmartRecruiters is the Recruiting AI Company that transforms hiring for the world’s leading enterprises. Built for global scale, SmartRecruiters, an SAP company, delivers an AI-powered hiring platform that automates and optimizes the entire talent acquisition process, ensuring faster and smarter hiring decisions. More than 4,000 companies, including Amazon, Visa, and McDonald's, rely on SmartRecruiters to build winning teams. In 2025, SmartRecruiters joined SAP, the global leader in enterprise applications. Together, SmartRecruiters and SAP are accelerating the reinvention of hiring by combining cutting-edge AI innovation with the scale, reach, and resources of SAP’s ecosystem.
At SmartRecruiters, we are a values-driven, globally focused tech company with strong financial backing and a bold vision for the future of work. We commit and dig deep, embracing challenges with grit, curiosity, and a drive for excellence. We foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment, where trust and determination bring us together. Because together, we will win.
Recognized by Fosway Industry Analysts as a strategic leader in recruitment technology for three consecutive years, and awarded by Comparably as a top company for Women, Perks and Benefits, Work-Life Balance, Happiness, Compensation, Diversity, and Culture - we take pride in creating a place where everyone can thrive. Our remote-friendly culture, competitive salaries, and strong internal mobility ensure that high performers have meaningful growth opportunities in an environment built on respect and empowerment.
We are looking for a Senior Product Designer who can own a product domain and deliver high-quality experiences with strong decision execution, solid judgment, and open collaboration. You will operate with a high degree of autonomy to drive design decisions that balance user needs and business goals. We expect you to deliver intuitive, scalable, and trustworthy workflows.
This role is ideal for someone who proactively shapes direction, guides others through their work, and will contribute to the evolution of how we design at SmartRecruiters.
In your first 3 months, you will:
- Own design work in a product group while partnering closer with Product and Engineering
- Lead design research including choosing methods and sharing insights with stakeholders
- Design end-to-end user experiences while considering scale, edge cases, and long-term impact
- Present your work clearly in design critiques and reviews with data and research included
- Actively collaborate with other designers by giving and receiving thoughtful feedback
In your first 6 months, you will:
- Lead design on complex initiatives from discovery through delivery with minimal supervision
- Create and maintain user journeys for your areas and connect them across the full experience
- Define and evolve interaction patterns within your domain to ensure platform coherence
- Bring a strong UX perspective to product strategy discussion with team leads
- Ensure high-quality execution by partnering with engineers and fellow designers
- Share knowledge, mentor peers, and contribute to design initiatives across the organization
- 5+ years of experience designing complex digital products
- A strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end ownership, systems thinking, and product impact
- Proven experience driving user research and translating insights into product decisions
- Ability to define interaction patterns and contribute to scalable design solutions
- Strong product sense with experience collaborating on roadmap planning
- Excellent communication skills, especially with presenting design decision to stakeholders
- Experience designing in enterprise SaaS or similarly complex product environments
Nice to have:
- Experience contributing to or evolving a design system
- Strong accessibility and inclusive design experience
- Experience mentoring designers or leading design organization initiatives
- Familiarity with HR technology
SmartRecruiters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
