Product designer

As a Staff Product Designer, AI you will help define the future of Personio's AI-driven HR technology. This role sits within the Intelligence product area, where you will shape the Personio Assistant experience and play a pivotal role designing Personio's next-generation agentic offering. You will own the functional strategy for this product area and coordinate with stakeholders across disciplines to ship high-quality solutions that respond pragmatically to customer needs.

Responsibilities:

• Design for varying levels of AI autonomy and control, balancing automation with user oversight in high-stakes HR workflows.
• Design and iterate on feedback loops and evaluation surfaces that help users (and the team) understand what the AI is doing, catch errors early, and build trust in AI-driven outcomes.
• Be a driving force behind Personio's AI platform, partnering with other product teams and with Design Systems to extend the Assistant's core capabilities and build new agentic use cases.
• Work at the leading edge of AI enabled workflows and bring new approaches to the design process.
• Ship and iterate quickly on live product surfaces - you are comfortable designing fixes and incremental improvements, not only net-new flows.
• Manage entire work-streams, providing product direction through goal-setting and planning.
• Develop thoughtful and inclusive design strategies for experiences across Personio.
• Balance ambitious, insight-driven goals with practical constraints.
• Create high fidelity deliverables (including hand-coded or AI-assisted prototypes) that articulate and inform product vision.
• Define shared design patterns, interaction primitives, and extension points, connecting disparate projects to avoid or reconcile avoidable divergence.
• Uplift design through culture of excellence and empathetic support, mentoring designers and cross-functional peers and providing constructive critique and feedback.

Requirements:

• Experience designing AI-native or agentic product surfaces - conversational interfaces, systems that take autonomous action, or workflows where trust and explainability are core to the product experience.
• Understanding of how model behavior and constraints shape what's possible - you can partner with engineering on trade-offs, not just hand off specs.
• Experience designing platform-level patterns or extensible systems that other teams build on - comfortable acting as a design partner, not just a reviewer, to teams outside your own, and co-owning shared standards with Design Systems.
• A "product builder" mindset: comfortable using AI-assisted prototyping/coding tools to move from concept to working prototype quickly, and shipping smaller fixes without waiting for a full design cycle.
• Experience and passion for one or more dimensions of design, e.g., Product thinking, Interaction Design and Crafted execution.
• Experience in extending or creating reusable frameworks, tooling, rituals, playbooks, patterns or processes adopted by others that improve how teams work.
• Proven track record of leading a product area with autonomy and shipping high-impact, multi-release product outcomes.
• Comfortable bringing clarity to complex, undefined, or highly regulated spaces, with the accountability and judgment to make decisions independently.
• AI Fluency: You have hands-on experience using AI to improve your workflow, and the sound judgment to know exactly when to rely on it and when to step in yourself.

Conditions:

• At Personio, we value in-person collaboration while also offering flexibility. This role is office-based, with 2 days per week required in your contracted office location. The remaining days can be worked from home or in the office if you prefer.
• In addition, you'll have 20 Flex Days per year to work remotely from other locations.
• Receive a competitive reward package - reevaluated each year - that includes salary, benefits, and pre-IPO equity.
• Enjoy 28 days of paid vacation, plus an additional day after 2 and 4 years.
• Make an impact on the environment and society with 1 (fully paid) Impact Day.
• Receive generous family leave, child support, mental health support (including 24 sessions per year with Oli for yourself and 10 sessions for a significant other), and sabbatical opportunities.
• We enjoy gathering for meals, cultural initiatives, and events like local Summer Sessions and year-end celebrations. There's also healthy snacks, drinks, and a weekly catered lunch.