Product Designer

Personal, different, and kind. That’s the essence of Teamtailor. And that’s how we try to make recruiting a joy by giving companies tools that help them attract and hire the right talent. We believe in providing a caring candidate experience that helps people find their dream jobs. Today, that leads to more than 90,000 people being hired through the Teamtailor platform every month.

We believe AI is changing what it means to be a product designer, for the better. When AI handles more of the production work, designers get to go deeper in both directions: further into the product, working in real code in the real app instead of handing off static mockups, and closer to the users, with more time for research and testing. That’s the kind of designer role we’re building at Teamtailor, and we’re looking for two to three designers to help us shape it.

We’re looking for someone who’s been designing digital products long enough to have strong craft, strong opinions, and taste you trust. Someone who geeks out about interaction details, design systems, and prototyping tools, but cares even more about whether recruiters and candidates actually have a better day because of what you shipped.

How we work

We use Shape Up: six-week cycles with real autonomy, followed by a two-week cooldown split between Innovation Week (experiments and learning) and Improvement Week (polish and maintenance). No sprints, no standups, no story points. You can read more in our post Building Teamtailor — How We Work in the Product Team.

What you’ll do

Every cycle, you’ll team up with a developer and take full ownership of a project. It’s a tight partnership, heavily assisted by AI: together you take a shaped pitch and turn it into a shipped feature, making all the design and scope decisions along the way. The shorter the distance between an idea and the shipped product, the better the product gets. That’s why the whole journey lives inside one pair.

That means your role is broader than a traditional product design role. You’ll do research and talk to users to understand the problem. You’ll design flows and interfaces with the care and simplicity our product is known for. And you won’t stop at prototypes: together with your developer and with AI as your pair, you’ll implement your designs in the actual medium. Real code, shipped to real users. Design decisions get made where they belong, in the product itself. You’ll also help maintain and evolve our design system as the product grows.

We’re also hoping you’ll be someone who’s genuinely enthusiastic about how design itself is evolving. Someone who’s curious, keeps learning, and naturally shares what they discover with others. If you’d describe yourself as a design engineer, or you’re a designer heading that way, you’ll feel at home here.

What we’re looking for

Required

• Solid experience designing digital products, with a portfolio that shows both strong craft and clear thinking

• Strong UI and interaction design skills. You sweat the details: empty states, edge cases, motion, accessibility, and everything else in the last 20%

• Hands-on experience shipping UI code (HTML/CSS, JavaScript) or building with modern AI coding tools

• Experience working closely with developers, and comfort discussing implementation trade-offs

• An interest in user research. You want to spend time with users, not just artifacts

• Strong written and verbal English communication skills

• Based in (or willing to relocate to) Stockholm, Gothenburg, or Linköping in Sweden

Nice to have

• Experience designing for complex SaaS products

• Experience with user research methods (interviews, usability testing)

• A specialty or perspective our team doesn’t have yet (tell us about it)

Our recruitment process

1. Submit your application with work you’re proud of: a portfolio, things you’ve built that real people used, a personal site, a prototype with a point of view. No cover letter required 🍰

2. A short interview with the hiring manager. That’s me, CJ 👋

3. Two short online assessments (for personality and logical ability) to help us be more objective and reduce biases ⚖️

4. Meet designers from the Product team, learn more about the role and how we work 👯

5. A working session with one of our designers where you’ll pair on a real problem, from sketching an idea to building it with AI tools 🧑‍💻

6. Offer to join the team, if we think we are a match for each other 🎉

So what do you say? Do you want to help us paint the world pink?