About Gem
About Gem
Gem’s mission is to help companies hire great teams. Our talent engagement platform enables recruiting teams to build relationships that lead to diverse, high-quality talent pipelines, a great candidate experience, and predictable hiring at any scale. By creating a source of truth for all relationships with talent, Gem can automate personalized outreach, while also generating insights about the entire recruiting process.
Our customers are savvy recruiting teams from industry-leading companies — like Dropbox, Grammarly, Doordash, Cisco, McDonalds — who understand that getting the best talent in the market is key to maintaining their competitive advantage.
With funding from key investors such as, ICONIQ, Greylock, and Accel, Gem has recently been recognized with Unicorn status, with a $1.2B valuation — becoming one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies at its scale. And 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:
- Certified as a Great Place to work, 2022
- Y Combinator Top Companies, 2022
- Fortune Best Workplaces in the Bay Area, 2022
The Team & Role
As a product designer at Gem, you will have the opportunity to create innovative and beautiful experiences customers love. Really: we're a business that wants to make software people love to use. If you're someone excited to revolutionize what great design means in business software, this is the role for you.
Own entire, end-to-end experiences for the business, engage with passionate customers, and collaborate with designers, product managers, engineers, sales, and success reps to build powerful features.
Work with expert cross-functional peers from companies like Meta, Dropbox, Airbnb, Google, Zumper, Workday, and more. Help us make a great product and define and build a team of designers. And let us help you grow in the ways you want to, whatever your ambitions are.
If you are passionate about creating a strong design culture, engaging directly with customers, designing intuitive and easy-to-use products, and simplifying complexity, we'd love to hear from you!
Responsibilities:
- Lead the end-to-end design process of major features for the Gem product
- Define or contribute to the strategy of multiple product area
- Collaborate closely with the engineering team, product team, and customers to define and design solutions
- Work on 0-to-1 problems as well as 1-to-1.1 (and beyond) projects
- Own design across the entire business by proactively identifying the highest-impact areas for design prioritization, and partner with stakeholders to prioritize
- Contribute to design team culture and processes
*Please note that this role is based in San Francisco, CA
Qualifications:
- 4+ years of experience designing and shipping digital products is preferred
- Deep knowledge of the product development process, from product thinking to visual and interaction design
- Ability to produce polished, high-fidelity mockups and prototypes of product workflows
- Motivated self-starter who can work closely with cross-functional partners in product, engineering, research and marketing
- A growth mindset with a willingness to own problems and results, as well as comfort with ambiguity
- Strong eye for visual design and a passion for design craft
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Gem requires all employees to be fully vaccinated* for COVID-19 prior to starting work. Gem is an equal opportunity employer, and will consider requests for exemption from this policy as a reasonable accommodation where it can do so absent undue hardship, consistent with federal, state, and local law.
Employees are considered fully vaccinated two weeks after completing primary vaccination with a COVID-19 vaccine, with, if applicable, at least the minimum recommended interval between doses. For example, this includes two weeks after a second does in a two-does series, such as the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, two weeks after a single-dose vaccine, such as the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, or two weeks after the second does of any combination of two doses of different COVID-19 vaccines as part of one primary vaccination series.