Senior Product Designer - Payroll - Location: Dublin or Munich

About us

Enabling Better Organizations.

Personio is a fast growing HR SaaS start-up based in Munich. It offers a holistic HR and applicant management software designed for companies with 10 to 1000 employees. Personio plays a critical role in making the day-to-day operations of more than 700 HR teams more efficient and transparent. We are a bunch of fun, international people striving to build the leading one-stop HR platform in Europe.

The Role

Personio is the all-in-one HR software for small and medium-sized companies. With offices in Munich, Madrid, London, Dublin, and Amsterdam, Personio is on a mission to make HR processes as transparent and efficient as possible so HR can focus on what matters most: people and strategy.

In the Payroll Domain, our ultimate goal is to ensure that people around the world are paid accurately and on time for their hard work. This means ensuring all the manual backoffice processes and inter-connected systems are simplified and humanised into intuitive and secure solutions.

We are looking for Senior Product Designers that are passionate and experienced in solving complex problems. You will not only help create best-in-class user experiences and contribute to our overall mission to offer a payroll feature to our customers, but provide guidance, mentoring and support to other Product Designers.

Your role and responsibilities will include:
  • Being part of a multi-disciplinary team, working side-by-side with Product Managers and Engineers as well as other Designers
  • Being a key part of our end-to-end product development process driving projects from concept to delivery. 
  • Contributing to product delivery with visual concepts and UX methods
  • Align designers around a shared vision to driven consistent outcome
  • Identify and set strategies to focus on innovation and disruption within product vertical
  • Creating holistic  and best-in-class user experiences to match customer and business needs
  • Creating prototypes for testing and stakeholder reviews
  • Partnering closely with our UX Research team to drive discovery
  • Driving co-creation sessions with other team members and stakeholders
  • Delivering project specifications and supporting the implementation
  • Contributing to our Product Design language through the continuous iteration of a Design System and UI library
  • Mentorship and supporting other Designers to excel 

What you need to succeed

  • 5+ years of experience in designing digital products or services, ideally in a SaaS environment
  • A portfolio that demonstrates your experience with digital products 
  • You understand how people interact with digital products, their cognitive biases and industry established interaction patterns
  • Advanced understanding and application of human-centered design, visual design and interaction design
  • You have the ability to iterate quickly, create low and high fidelity prototypes
  • Track record of design ownership and worked closely and effectively with PM and Engineering leaders
  • Good understanding of information architecture 
  • You provide feedback regularly for continuous improvement, but also seek out areas of improvement as well
  • Versed in various techniques to support UX Research on mapping insights and quantitatively or qualitatively test solutions with customers
  • Know how to clearly communicate design knowledge on a strategic level 

Why Personio

Aside from our people, culture, and mission, there are a variety of additional benefits that help make Personio a great place to work! Work with us and receive:
  • A competitive compensation package that includes salary, benefits, and virtual shares
  • 26 days of paid vacation + 2 days off for Christmas and New Year's Eve (because we love what we do, but we also love vacation!)
  • Annual personal development budget of €1,500 for conferences, courses, books, career coach, etc.
  • Regular company and team events like Oktoberfest, ski trips, Christmas parties, and more! (COVID permitting)
  • Beautiful office located in the heart of Madrid
  • Free English and Spanish language classes
  • Flexibility to balance work between remote and in the office
  • Lease an electric scooter or bike, paid for by Personio
  • The parental benefit of 10 extra days off in case your child gets sick
  • Monthly €162 tax-free stipend to help cover food and public transportation expenses
  • Private Health insurance (company level plan): Access to Sanitas plan at a reduced employee cost (€43 for employees, spouse, or children)
  • A monthly allowance with Gympass to exercise at their partner fitness clubs 
  • Discounts across a range of brands so you can save money while shopping at Adidas, LG, Bosch, Apple, Dia, etc.
  • Mental health support, as we know that mental wellbeing plays a major role in both our personal and professional success. #PersonioCares
  • Two Impact days you can use to have an impact on the environment and society. One day is for an individual project and one for a company-wide initiative! #SocialResponsibility