Product Designer (Senior/Staff) (d/f/m)

Personio; München; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual raise

28 days vacation

Flex Days

Pre-IPO equity

Sabbatical

Job summary

Personio seeks a Senior Product Designer to shape the future of our HR platform and lead initiatives across the product design practice. You will own the product area strategy and coordinate with stakeholders to deliver high-quality work that pragmatically meets customer needs.

You will evolve our design practice with new tooling, AI-enabled workflows, and hands-on prototyping, collaborating with cross-functional teams across disciplines and levels.

Qualifications

• Experience in product thinking and interaction design.
• Proficient with high-fidelity and AI-powered prototyping.
• Experience creating reusable design frameworks and patterns.

Responsibilities

• Manage work-streams and provide product direction through planning and goals.
• Develop thoughtful design strategies balancing ambition with constraints.
• Lead edge AI-enabled design workflows and prototypes.
• Create high-fidelity deliverables that articulate product vision.
• Identify emerging design patterns and create reusable abstractions.
• Mentor designers and cross-functional peers, giving constructive feedback.

Skills

Product thinking

Interaction design

AI prototyping

Frameworks & patterns

Autonomy & leadership

Tools

AI tooling

Job description

Personio's intelligent HR platform helps small and medium-sized organizations unlock the power of people by making complicated, time-consuming tasks simple and efficient. Our team of 1,500 Personios is building user-friendly products that delight our 15,000+ customers and their 1.5 million employees. Ready to make an impact from day one?

This role requires 2 days per week in the office and is based in Munich, Berlin or London.

As a Senior Product Designer, you will help to define the future of Personio’s HR platform and lead key initiatives to evolve the product and our product design practice. You will own the functional strategy for your product area and coordinate with stakeholders across disciplines and levels to ensure the team is delivering high quality work which responds pragmatically to customer needs.

Alongside developing high quality product experiences, you will help evolve the design practice at Personio. Technical advances are enabling new tools and methods in the design process, and Personio is committed to exploring and integrating the latest possibilities.

This role is ideal for a candidate who is passionate about leveraging the latest technology and working with cross functional partners to solve customer needs.

What You'll Do

• Manage entire work-streams, providing product direction through goal-setting and planning
• Develop thoughtful and inclusive design strategies. Balance ambitious, insight-driven goals with practical constraints
• Work at the leading edge of AI enabled workflows and bring new approaches to the design process
• Create high fidelity deliverables (including hand-coded or AI-assisted prototypes) that articulate and inform product vision
• Identify emerging design patterns and create reusable and extensible abstractions and frameworks, connecting disparate projects to avoid or reconcile avoidable divergence
• Demonstrated commitment to uplifting the design through culture of excellence and empathetic support, mentoring designers and cross-functional peers and providing constructive critique and feedback

What You Need To Succeed

• Experience and passion for one or more dimensions of design, e.g., Product thinking, Interaction Design and Crafted execution
• Skilled in using high-fidelity and AI powered prototyping tools
• Experience in extending or creating reusable frameworks, tooling, rituals, playbooks, patterns or processes adopted by others that improve how teams work
• Demonstrated ability to lead a product area in partnership with the cross functional team
• Capable of elevating craft, proactively identifying and driving initiatives and raising quality across the product area
• Proven track record of shipping high‑impact, multi-release product outcomes
• Operates with autonomy, accountability, and mature decision-making thriving in ambiguity and can bring clarity to complex or undefined spaces
• AI Fluency: You have hands-on experience using AI to improve your workflow, and the sound judgment to know exactly when to rely on it and when to step in yourself.

Why Personio

Personio is an equal opportunities employer, committed to building an integrative culture where everyone feels welcomed and supported. We embrace uniqueness and understand that our diverse, values-driven culture makes us stronger. We are proud to have an inclusive workplace environment that will foster your development no matter your gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, education level, or race.

At Personio, we value in-person collaboration while also offering flexibility. This role is office-based, with 2 days per week required in your contracted office location. The remaining days can be worked from home or in the office if you prefer. In addition, you’ll have 20 Flex Days per year to work remotely from other locations.

Aside from our people, culture, and mission, check out some of the other benefits that make Personio a great place to work:

• Receive a competitive reward package – reevaluated each year – that includes salary, benefits, and pre-IPO equity
• Enjoy 28 days of paid vacation, plus an additional day after 2 and 4 years
• Make an impact on the environment and society with 1 (fully paid) Impact Day
• Receive generous family leave, child support, mental health support (including 24 sessions per year with Oli for yourself and 10 sessions for a significant other), and sabbatical opportunities
• We enjoy gathering for meals, cultural initiatives, and events like local Summer Sessions and year-end celebrations. There's also healthy snacks, drinks, and a weekly catered lunch