Product Designer

StepStone Group; City Of London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology recruitment company is seeking a Product Designer to redefine how millions connect to work. The role demands a visionary designer who can create simple, human-centered experiences and collaborate closely with engineering and research partners to drive impact and innovation. Applicants should have a track record of delivering impactful products and excel in storytelling and prototyping.

Qualifications

• Ability to ship products with measurable user and business impact.
• Strong storytelling skills to align stakeholders.
• Experience with design systems and ensuring consistency.

Responsibilities

• Design intuitive human-centered experiences.
• Prototype and use it to define future direction.
• Contribute to strategic direction aligning user insights to business goals.

Skills

InVision

Interaction Design

User Experience (UX)

Usability

Visual Design

Design Thinking

Zeplin

User Research

UI

iOS Design

Figma

Sketch

Job description

Design at The Stepstone Group

Find the right job for everyone.

Thats our mission and its also the lens through which design drives impact across Stepstone. Design has been embedded in our DNA for over a decade and today our product design organisation is more ambitious focused and mature than ever.

We are a team of 40 extraordinary individuals across Product Design User Research Content Design Design Systems Design Operations and Foundations united by a belief that great experiences are intentional human and deeply crafted.

Design is represented at every level of leadership which means youll be supported not just in execution but in driving strategy shaping direction and challenging the status quo across the business.

Our work spans the entire ecosystem across both B2C and B2B helping candidates find the right role and enabling recruiters to find the right talent. Its a full-spectrum design organisation where your decisions ripple across real human journeys not just screens.

The Role

Were looking for a Product Designer with the vision craft and conviction to redefine how millions of people connect to work.

Whether you join us as a Mid Senior or Lead Designer youll have the autonomy to make real impact. At Stepstone design isnt decoration its a strategic force that shapes outcomes for users customers and the business.

Youll work side-by-side with Product Engineering and Research partners to identify the highest-leverage opportunities and turn them into meaningful measurable outcomes.

Here you wont just improve flows youll rethink how people find jobs how recruiters find talent and how great design can make complexity feel simple.

You’ll be expected to :

• Set a high bar for quality and push yourself (and others) to raise it
• Challenge assumptions including your own
• Tell the story and bring others with you
• Design extraordinary experiences that move the needle for both users and the business

What You’ll Do

Youll report into a Product Design Manager and work alongside deeply experienced product engineering and research partners. The scope of your responsibilities will flex depending on your level but across the board youll :

• Design simple intuitive and human-centered experiences that solve real problems with clarity creativity and care.
• Prototype boldly. Great prototypes move mountains. They align leaders steer strategy and collapse years of discussion into conviction. At Stepstone we dont just build prototypes we use them to decide what the future should look like.
• Shape impact in partnership with Product helping define priorities owning outcomes and holding yourself accountable to team success metrics.
• Elevate the quality of what we ship through craft systems thinking and clear product narratives.
• Contribute to strategic direction connecting user insight to business goals and turning ambiguity into focus.
• Mentor and support peers from sharing thoughtful critique to raising standards across the org (especially at Senior levels).

Qualifications :

We know job descriptions can feel like checklists and we dont expect perfection. If you see yourself in many of these wed love to hear from you :

• Youve shipped real products with measurable user and business impact ideally across consumer enterprise or multi-sided ecosystems.
• You hold a high standard of craft connecting insight to execution and sweating the details that turn good into unforgettable.
• Youre a strong storyteller able to align stakeholders inspire teams and make complex ideas simple through narrative.
• You wield prototyping as a core skill using it to explore align and sell the future faster than anyone else.
• Youve worked with design systems contributing to consistency while pushing patterns and components forward.
• You understand that great design isnt just about what it looks like but what we choose to build what we choose not to and why .

At Stepstone design is how millions of people find work and how businesses hire the right talent. Were building one of the most ambitious design orgs in Europe where every detail matters where prototypes move mountains and where design is inseparable from strategy.

We dont just raise the bar we set it. We tell the story we make the complex simple and we use design to shape the future of hiring.

If you want to design with impact at this scale and thrive in a culture that demands craft conviction and ambition this is where you belong.

Additional Information :

Our commitment :

Equal opportunities are important to us. We believe that diversity and inclusion at The Stepstone Group are critical to our success as a global company so we want to recruit develop and keep the best talent. We encourage applications from everyone regardless of background gender identity sexual orientation disability status ethnicity belief age family or parental status and any other characteristic.

Remote Work: No

Employment Type: Full-time

Experience: years

Vacancy: 1

Key Skills

InVision,Interaction Design,Ux,Usability,Visual Design,Design Thinking,Zeplin,User Research,UI,IOS,Figma,Sketch