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Staff Product Designer

San Francisco, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 25 Nov 2025

💰 $240,000/yr($216,000/yr – $240,000/yr)

About the role

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, DoorDash, 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:
Just as we strive to help our customers find great talent, we also invest in our own people and culture. We are proud of the culture we’ve built and have recently been recognized as:

The Team & Role

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 collection-of-components into 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 at Gem.The design team you help build now will define what Gem becomes as we scale to thousands of customers and hundreds of employees.

What You’ll Do Day-to-Day:

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