[Hiring] Senior Product Designer @Spotted Zebra

Role Description

You’ll turn complex hiring problems into simple, thoughtful experiences for talent teams and candidates, working with PMs, Engineers and fellow Designers from early exploration through delivery.

As our design expert, you’ll own our most complex design challenges and equip PMs and engineers to move quickly on simpler work through coaching, AI tools and our SZ Design System. Your impact will come from both the experiences you design yourself and the quality and speed of the work you enable others to deliver.

Spotted Zebra moves fast. You’ll get energy from solving real problems, making informed bets and seeing your work used. Discovery is focused, practical and continuous: stay close to users, gather useful signals and bring the confidence to act before every question has an answer.

Key Responsibilities

• Own design where it matters most. Lead complex, important problems from exploration to shipped experiences, with strong interaction design, visual craft and accessibility.
• Enable others to deliver good design. Equip PMs and Engineers to own simpler work using our SZ Design System, clear principles, AI tooling and coaching. Give them room to deliver independently, knowing when to step in.
• Stay close to users. Gather insight through conversations, product data and lightweight testing. Learn continuously alongside delivery, choosing research depth to match the decision.
• Make pragmatic decisions. Balance user value, business priorities and technical feasibility. Identify what needs care now, what can be simplified and what can improve after launch.
• Use AI to accelerate delivery. Improve research, prototyping and implementation workflows, evaluate outputs critically and embed useful approaches into tools the wider team can use independently.
• Keep the product coherent. Connect end-to-end journeys across crews, surface inconsistencies early and evolve common patterns in the SZ Design System so teams can move quickly without fragmenting the experience.
• Champion the user. Challenge assumptions with Product, Engineering, Data Science and Occupational Psychology, finding practical solutions that balance usability, trust and governance.
• Design understandable AI experiences. Make capabilities, limitations and next steps clear, keeping users in control when AI is uncertain or gets something wrong.
• Follow through on outcomes. Partner with Engineers during implementation, check what ships and use feedback and product data to improve usability and value.

Qualifications

• A track record of shipping complex, web-based SaaS experiences at pace, with examples of decisions made under uncertainty and improvements after launch.
• Excellent UX and visual craft: intuitive, accessible interfaces that simplify complex workflows. You hold a high bar for craft but don’t let perfection get in the way of shipping, knowing where polish matters most and where good enough is the right call.
• Strong product judgement in startup or scale-up teams, using qualitative research and product data to make informed bets and choose proportionate discovery.
• Close collaboration with PMs and Engineers, combining product thinking and technical understanding to get good work shipped.
• Using AI coding or prototyping tools such as Claude Code, Claude Design or Lovable, including embedding design-system guidance into their context.
• Practical examples of using AI to accelerate design or delivery, critically evaluating its output and applying your own judgement.
• Examples of enabling PMs or Engineers to independently deliver good design through reusable patterns, clear guidance and coaching, with judgement about when to step in.
• You thrive in ambiguity - you’re energised by designing at the intersection of skills science and enterprise needs, where problems are rarely well defined. You bring structure to complexity and make confident design decisions without waiting for perfect information.
• Curiosity, resourcefulness and adaptability. You thrive with autonomy, move between strategy and detail, explain decisions clearly, surface risks and confidently advocate for users.

Nice-to-Haves

• Designing AI-powered products, particularly agents or assistants that help users complete complex tasks.
• Using AI coding or prototyping tools such as Claude Code, Claude Design or Lovable, including embedding design-system guidance into their context.
• Strong Figma skills and practical experience using a design system to ship consistent product experiences, with judgement about when to reuse existing components or extend patterns.
• Experience in HR tech, recruitment or enterprise products with multiple user types and important trust or governance considerations.
• Improving consistency across product teams or evolving an established product alongside new capabilities.

Benefits

• Meaningful share options
• Health insurance
• Enhanced pension
• Nursery salary sacrifice scheme
• 25 days holiday (excluding bank holidays)
• Remote-first
• Work from home budget
• L&D budget
• Dental cover
• Eye-care support
• Co-working space budget
• Wellbeing allowance
• Travel insurance
• Electric car scheme
• Access to the latest AI-powered tools and technologies

Our Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion

At Spotted Zebra, we welcome people of all stripes. We are committed to providing equal opportunities and an inclusive and diverse culture.

We believe that each and every one of us possesses an extraordinary set of skills and abilities, waiting to be discovered, nurtured, and harnessed for the benefit of all.

We are a team. And no matter your race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, or disability, we will empower you to unleash your superpower to help us create a world where everyone is able to utilise their unique blend of skills and abilities to contribute to the greater good.

Everyone is unique and we encourage you to let us know in your application, or share with your recruiter directly, if there is anything we can do to make your interview experience with us more comfortable and positive.

At Spotted Zebra, everyone is welcome. So even if you don't meet all the requirements, we would still love to hear from you. We are always keen to speak with people who are passionate about our mission.

🦓 Ready to gallop ahead with us? We're a team that moves fast, thinks big, and isn't afraid to challenge how things have always been done. If you're excited about using AI and skills science to transform how the world hires, apply now and a member of our dazzle will be in touch!