Staff Product Designer

Role Details Location: This role is based 2 days per week out of our San Francisco, HQ and is not eligible for full-time remote work. Compensation: The annual cash compensation range for this role is $216,000-$240,000 in addition to equity & benefits. The range displayed on this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum compensation. Factors including level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience will determine compensation. 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: Forbes America's Best Startup Employers 2025 Great Place to Work Certified, 2024 Fortune Best Workplaces for Millennials, 2023 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. We believe design is Gem's competitive edge: the difference between blending in and standing out. By building tools that feel like they were made by recruiters, for recruiters, we don't just improve the product. We elevate the entire company. As a Staff Product Designer, you'll own a meaningful product area end-to-end. You'll partner with PMs and engineers at the strategic level and help drive the vision. 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: Lead end-to-end design for a meaningful product surface—from research and strategy through shipped metrics Design and pioneer AI interactions that augment human judgment Design at platform scale: solutions that work for 10-person startups and 10,000-person enterprises Collaborate with PM and engineering as strategic partner Talk to customers to build relationships and gather feedback 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 show up to cross functional stakeholders Attract top design talent through reputation and shipped work About You: You've shipped complex products end-to-end . You do user research, frame problems strategically, understand business metrics, and design sophisticated interactions. You can own meaningful product areas, not just component libraries. You’re a force multiplier. You've built tools, processes, or systems that made teams dramatically more effective. You've mentored designers and measurably improved their craft. You think in frameworks and principles, not just individual solutions. You' ... (truncated, view full listing at source)