Product Designer

About Gem

Gem is the only AI‑first all‑in‑one recruiting platform. It brings together your ATS, CRM, sourcing, scheduling, and analytics — plus 650+ million profiles to source from — with AI built into every workflow. By eliminating the headaches of juggling multiple tools, Gem helps customers boost recruiter productivity by up to 5x while saving 30‑50% on technology costs. Over 1,000 organizations — from startups to industry leaders like Zillow, Door Dash, and Asana — trust Gem to fuel their growth.

With an industry‑leading 4.8/5 rating on G2, Gem is the platform recruiters actually love to use. Gem has raised $148M from renown investors including Accel, Greylock, ICONIQ, Sapphire, and Meritech.

With Gem, you can experience the power of a truly connected recruiting platform — one consistent interface, unified data, smarter AI recommendations, and simplified permissions. Our customers achieve remarkable results:

• Forbes America's Best Startup Employers 2024
• Great Place to Work Certified, 2024
• Fortune Best Workplaces for Millennia ls, 2023

The product design team at Gem is focused on AI transformation of hiring, a decades‑old practice that has long been stale. We’re fundamentally rethinking how recruiting works when intelligence is embedded everywhere.

As a Staff Product Designer, your job is to raise the bar: elevate our visual design craft, transform our design system from a collection of components into a force multiplier, and push the boundaries of what an AI‑first recruiting platform looks like.

We need someone who multiplies the team's effectiveness. You'll build the infrastructure—design system, component libraries, documentation, workflows—that lets the team move fast without sacrificing quality. You'll set the aesthetic direction that makes Gem feel premium, not just functional.

But this isn't a pure systems role. You'll own a meaningful product area end-to-end because great systems thinking comes from shipping real products. You'll partner with PMs and engineers at the strategic level. You'll help us prove that enterprise B2B software can be as beautiful and delightful as consumer products.

We're small, ambitious, and moving fast. Your work will ship to thousands of recruiters at industry‑leading companies. You'll help define what world‑class design looks like  design team you help build now will define what Gem becomes as we scale to thousands of customers and hundreds of employees.

Elevate our design craft

• Redesign and scale our design system—build component libraries, establish token architecture, create documentation designers actually use
• Define visual design direction for the platform—set standards for typography, color, layout, motion, and information design
• Partner with marketing to unify brand and product design language
• Create frameworks and tools that multiply team effectiveness

Own a product area

• Lead end-to-end design for a meaningful product surface—from research and strategy through shipped metrics
• Design AI interactions that augment human judgment—transparent, not magical
• Design at platform scale: solutions that work for 10‑person startups and 10,000‑person enterprises
• Collaborate with PM and engineering as strategic partner, not service provider

Multiply the team

• Mentor designers through critique, pairing, and raising the bar on their work
• Establish quality standards and best practices the team adopts
• Build design culture—how we critique, collaborate, and continuously improve
• Attract top design talent through reputation and shipped work

You've elevated design quality at scale. You’ve built or transformed design systems that measurably improved team velocity and product consistency. You have strong opinions on component architecture, tokens, documentation, and what makes systems actually usable for designers.

Your visual design is exceptional. You master typography, color theory, layout, and information design. You can look at a product and immediately see 10 ways to elevate it. Your portfolio shows work that makes people say "wow"—not just functional, but beautiful.

You're a product designer, not just a systems designer. You've shipped complex…