Senior Product Designer

The role

Join the GradConnection team facilitating the employment marketplace between graduate students and graduate hirers. You'll partner with cross-functional teams to balance high-quality user experiences with business objectives, working across our Asia-Pacific platforms spanning eight countries to create innovative solutions and drive best practice experiences.

Key responsibilities

• Systems-oriented thinking: design across both sides of the marketplace (graduates and graduate hirers) with strong grasp of ecosystem interconnections;
• Customer-centric approach: deep empathy for graduate and employer audiences to prioritise usability and outcomes supporting business goals;
• Dynamic collaboration: work with product managers, engineers and stakeholders delivering impactful solutions balancing user needs, business goals and technical feasibility;
• Design leadership: plan design initiatives aligned with product outcomes; lead end-to-end design including research, prototyping, usability testing, visual design and data analysis;
• Design advocacy: communicate decisions with clear rationale through compelling storytelling aligned with company objectives;
• Systems & consistency: leverage and evolve Design System for product consistency, creating bespoke components when necessary;
• Inclusive design: create solutions tailored to Asia-Pacific's cultural and linguistic diversity; and
• Innovation: investigate emerging technologies (AI, personalisation) to enhance platform functionality and user experience.

Essential requirements

• 5+ years online or software product design experience, ideally at marketplace or SaaS company;
• Ability to define design plans ensuring high-quality outputs within timeframes, balancing risks and trade-offs;
• Skilled in leading design thinking techniques, especially workshop facilitation;
• Proficiency in planning and conducting user research, usability testing and generating actionable insights;
• Proven ability transforming customer insights into beautiful, effortless experiences;
• Expertise in visual design creating polished UI components with branding and accessibility consistency;
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills articulating design decisions aligned with user insights and business goals; and
• Advanced Figma proficiency.

Desirable

• Familiarity with research and analytics tools (HotJar, Intercom, Dovetail);
• Knowledge of collaboration tools (Jira, Confluence, Miro);
• Ability to align design decisions with user and business goals; and
• Comfortable in fast-paced, iterative environment with shifting priorities.

At SEEK we offer:

• Annual Performance Bonus Plan
• Support of flexible hybrid working, including a mix of office and work from home days depending on your role.
• 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.

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