Job Description
UX Designer Research-Driven HRTech Product Experience Lead
Reports to: CEO
Location: Remote
Talent Traction, a decade-old family-owned business has a goal to foster unique talent and facilitate thriving relationships between exceptional individuals and companies. Our mission is to impact 10,000 lives by 2033 through hyper-niched talent solutions.
We are looking for a UX Designer who lives and breathes user research, understands the complexity of HRTech user journeys, and can translate insights into high-quality low-fidelity and high-fidelity wireframes for our next-generation hiring platform.
If you've designed SaaS products especially HRTech, ATS, CRM, or recruitment platforms this role is for you.
You will love it here if you are:
A strong advocate for users
Research-driven and data-obsessed
A collaborative team partner
Detail-oriented, empathetic, and structured
Passionate about building meaningful HRTech solutions
You'll love coming to work every day if you get, want, and have the capacity to:
Plan and conduct user interviews, surveys, usability tests, and workflow analyses
Translate research into user personas, journey maps, problem statements, and UX flows
Create low-fidelity wireframes, high-fidelity prototypes, and design systems
Work closely with product, engineering, and recruitment SMEs to align business and UX goals
Understand ATS/HRTech domain challenges such as candidate drop-off, recruiter efficiency, hiring funnels, scorecards, and workflow automations
Simplify complex recruitment processes into intuitive UX patterns
Run usability tests and iterate based on feedback
Present research findings and design rationale confidently to stakeholders
You will have success here if you value structured processes and feel qualified to:
Conduct end-to-end user research with recruiters, hiring managers, and candidates
Create user flows for job posting, candidate evaluation, interview scheduling, scorecards, and pipeline management
Build wireframes and prototypes that follow accessibility, UX heuristics, and HRTech best practices
Partner with product managers and engineers to bring UX to life
Maintain a scalable and consistent design system
Deliver UX documentation that integrates smoothly with dev sprints
Deliver measurable UX improvements across the hiring funnel
You'll be accountable to deliver the following key results:
Complete a full user research report within the first 30 days
Deliver low-fidelity wireframes for the ATS core modules within 45 days
Deliver high-fidelity prototypes ready for development within 60 days
Conduct at least 5 recruiter/candidate usability tests per month
Improve usability scores and reduce workflow friction by at least 30% within the first 90 days
Establish and document a Talent Traction Design System
Required Experience & Skills:
36 years of UX design experience
Mandatory: Experience designing HRTech / ATS / Recruiting SaaS platforms
Proven experience in user research conducting interviews, usability tests, surveys, and field studies
Strong portfolio showcasing UX case studies, research insights, and hi-fi designs
Deep understanding of UX heuristics, information architecture, and complex workflow design
Ability to turn ambiguous problems into structured design solutions
Fluency with Figma, FigJam, Miro, Notion, and UX research tools
Excellent communication and presentation skills
Nice-to-Have Experience:
Background in recruitment, HR operations, or talent acquisition
Experience designing AI-powered workflows, matching engines, or dashboards
Experience working in an EOS-run organization
Familiarity with analytics tools (Mixpanel, Hotjar, FullStory)
What You Can Expect From Us (EOS Culture):
As a member of our team, you'll have a leader who:
Gives clear direction and removes blockers
Ensures you have the resources to succeed
Acts with integrity and the company's greater good in mind
Respects your expertise and autonomy
Communicates openly and frequently
Provides timely feedback
Recognizes and rewards your results
