Design Lead - AI Products

About the role

The Design Lead will be responsible for leading design strategy and execution within SEEK's Connect domain, focusing on post-application hirer workflows that streamline candidate selection processes and drive hiring automation through AI-enabled solutions. This position reports to the Senior Head of Design for Connect and leads a design team whose members work within cross-functional delivery teams across hirer automation, adjacencies space, and outsourced talent acquisition.

Responsibilities

• Lead design strategy for hiring automation products, ensuring AI-enabled solutions integrate seamlessly with existing hirer workflows
• Oversee design decisions across AI hirer tools, Sidekicker contingent labour platform, SmartHire outsourced recruitment services and business information markets
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to translate AI capabilities into strategic design initiatives that drive measurable efficiency gains
• Coach and develop designers, fostering expertise in human-AI interaction design patterns
• Partner with Product, Technology and Strategy Leadership to define OKRs and roadmap priorities across multiple verticals
• Champion design system adoption and establish AI interaction patterns for Connect products
• Work with UX Research to establish success metrics for Hirer Automation experiences and AI feature adoption
• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration between design, product, engineering, AI teams and business strategy teams
• Drive consistent design standards across diverse product offerings while allowing for specialised interaction patterns
• Contribute to design leadership forums and advocate for design needs across the broader SEEK ecosystem

Skills and experience

• Design leadership experience managing and developing other designers in a cross-functional environment
• Proven experience integrating AI/ML capabilities into business strategy and product roadmaps with a design lens
• Experience designing for B2B marketplace or talent acquisition platforms, particularly in post-application workflows
• Track record of working with cross-functional teams to deliver complex product solutions spanning multiple business verticals
• Understanding of contingent labour, outsourced recruitment, or alternative staffing models and their unique design challenges
• Demonstrated ability to influence business outcomes through design strategy and stakeholder engagement
• Experience with design systems and establishing interaction patterns for emerging technologies like AI
• Background in agile product development environments with experience coaching teams through ambiguous problem spaces
• Strong collaboration skills to work effectively with Product, Technology, and AI teams
• Strategic thinking ability to translate complex AI capabilities into user-centered design solutions

Perks and benefits

At SEEK we offer:

• Professional development sessions with industry leading guest speakers
• Annual Performance Bonus Plan
• Paid and unpaid leave benefits including Personal Flexi Days as well as the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• The opportunity to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per financial year
• Casual dress every day

At SEEK, we are passionate about fostering a culture of inclusion and wellbeing that embraces and values the diversity of our people. We are a purpose driven business that works with heart.

We know teams with diverse ideas, experiences and perspectives are more creative and are critical to ensuring effective delivery and innovating to enable our future success. As such, we welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and life experiences, especially as they relate to gender, sexual identity, culture, faith, disability and life stages. If you have the skills, curiosity and an adaptable mindset but don't meet every responsibility or qualification listed in this advertisement, please still get in touch with us. Should you require any specific support or adjustments throughout the recruitment process and beyond, please advise us and we will be happy to assist.

For this role, only those with eligible right to work will be considered.

SEEK kindly requests no unsolicited resumes or approaches from recruitment agencies and will not be responsible for any associated fees.