Senior Product Designer

FELICIS; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Paraform in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Product Designer to shape the future of hiring. You’ll collaborate with product, engineering, and founders to craft intuitive products and influence the hundreds of billions spent on staffing and recruiting per year.

This is a chance to help build and design the next great marketplace, with your work impacting thousands of people making a pivotal career decision.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of experience as a product designer (web).
• 2+ years at a startup or enterprise with a top design culture (Notion, Linear, Glean).
• End-to-end product design with user research, prototyping, and shipping.
• Designed B2C or B2B products from scratch on end-to-end projects.
• Strong in Figma and other design tools.
• Experience integrating AI into workflows or interest in Claude and modern tools.

Responsibilities

• Partner with PMs and engineers from discovery through shipping.
• Build our design system and component library from scratch.
• Work with founders to ship fast and iterate on feedback.
• Split time roughly 30% research/testing and 70% design.

Skills

Product design

User research

Prototyping

Shipping product

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Figma

Job description

We're looking for a Senior Product Designer to join Paraform and help shape the future of hiring. You'll work closely with product, engineering, and our founders to design intuitive products and influence the hundreds of billions spent on staffing and recruiting per year.

This is a chance to help build and design the next great marketplace (e.g., Airbnb, Uber). Your work will impact thousands of people as they make one of the most important decisions of their lives: finding their next role.

You’ll be part of a small, high-leverage team where your design decisions have immediate product and customer impact.

What You'll Do

• Partner with PMs and engineers from discovery through shipping to bring new concepts to life
• Build our design system and component library from scratch
• Work directly with founders to ship fast and iterate based on feedback
• Split your time roughly 30% research/testing and 70% design

Required

• 5-8 years of experience as a product designer (focusing on web)
• 2+ years at a start-up or enterprise with a best-in-class design culture (e.g., Notion, Linear, Glean), ideally in B2B software or marketplaces
• Has executed end-to-end product design: user research, prototyping, shipping product
• Designed best-in-class B2C or B2B products from scratch on an end-to-end effort
• Strong in Figma and other design tools
• Experience integrating AI into workflows, or at minimum interested in bringing in Claude and other modern tools to enable iteration and implementation
• Low ego, and able to learn from feedback
• Capable of collaborating deeply with EPD teams, ops teams, and customers to influence design architecture

Preferred

• Experience integrating AI tools into design and product workflows
• Experience designing B2B software or marketplace products

Not a Fit

• Perfectionists who move too slowly
• Designers focused on mobile

Tech Stack

• Figma

About Paraform

Paraform is a marketplace modernizing one of the largest and most fragmented markets in the world: hiring. We partner with industry leaders like Decagon, Palantir, Rippling, Abridge, and Hightouch to hire world-class talent, and are growing quickly - 8×-ing revenue last year.

Paraform is the first end-to-end AI recruiting marketplace that connects companies with thousands of specialized recruiters and AI agents that work together to fill roles faster and more accurately.

Our mission is to make hiring fast, reliable, and scalable for every company in the world.

At Paraform, we believe recruiting works best when the right people are working on the right problems, combining human judgment with AI that truly understands hiring. That's why we're building a new foundation for how companies hire, bringing together specialized recruiters and modern AI tools.

We treat recruiters like entrepreneurs, not vendors - and we're building the financial, operational, and technical infrastructure that powers their success.

We are backed by the best investors and technology leaders: Scale, Felicis, A*, BOND, Liquid 2, DST Global, the founders of YouTube, Instacart, Canva, and more.