NYC: Product Designer, Shared Experiences / Core Platform

@ well-known Benefits / Payroll tech firm helping SMBs

Shape the Future of Benefits + Payroll for Small-to-Medium Sized Businesses!

Location: Hybrid, 2-3x/week onsite in NYC, FiDi with sweeping bay views

Comp: $121–155K base salary + equity + flexible PTO

Visas: Sorry, no visa sponsorship or transfers available

Our client, a thriving, established Benefits / Payroll tech company focused on empowering SMBs, is hiring a Product Designer for their Shared Experiences / Core Platform area.

This is a great role for a strong midlevel Product Designer who wants to grow inside a mature, supportive Design org while working on complex, high-impact platform surfaces used across the logged-in product experience.

You’ll join a thoughtful 50+ person Experience Design org led by one of our favorite VP Design leaders. He’s highly respected, deeply human, sharp, funny, and serious about building a design culture where craft, systems thinking, collaboration, and real cross-functional partnership matter.

About the Company:

Chances are, if you've worked for a startup or an established small-to-medium-sized business, you're probably already familiar with our client!

They're a late-stage Benefits / Payroll platform tech company in an exciting stage of substantial but responsible growth, with great name recognition. They provide SMBs, including many in the tech industry, high-quality, enterprise-level health insurance, payroll, payments, compliance, and HR tools that smaller businesses and their employees wouldn’t otherwise have access to.

They’re known for a standout culture rooted in honesty, openness, integrity, friendliness, no-ego, and inclusion.

 “Collaboration” isn’t just a word on a cheesy poster in a hallway. It represents their values at their core!

They've embraced AI in an intelligent way, both in terms of their work process, and the products they're creating - so you'll be able to continue to learn and grow your AI skills here.

Their cred:

Fortune magazine has named them to its Best Workplaces in New York list multiple times, and they’re also on BuiltIn’s list of NYC Best Large Companies to Work For.

They’ve been in business for 13+ years and are an important player in the HR Tech industry. They’ve secured significant funding from top VCs including Bain, Thrive, FirstMark Capital, and Union Square Ventures.

They’ve expanded into global markets, grown consistently and intelligently year over year, and are adding a broader suite of products to their already well-known core platform.

What’s happening there in Design?

They’ve have their first-ever VP Experience Design at the helm for a few years now, and we’ve known him for years and absolutely trust him. His arrival was a strong signal of the company’s growing investment in Design and respect for the discipline.

We’ve helped him grow his teams over the years and have seen firsthand how much his designers adore him. He’s empathic, strategic, supersmart, and a real thought leader in the space. Plus, he has a great sense of humor, which makes for a super enjoyable work vibe!

This is a company where Design is increasingly focused on connected product experiences: how employers, employees, internal teams, partners, and systems all work together across a complex HR / benefits / payroll ecosystem.

It’s a great environment for designers who like thoughtful product craft, systems thinking, complex workflows, information architecture, and building useful tools that help real businesses get important work done.

The role:

Product Designer, Shared Experiences / Core Platform

The Shared Experiences team owns the core platform surfaces that help users orient themselves, find what matters, and take action across the logged-in product experience.

In plain English: this team designs the connective tissue of the platform.

You’ll work on experiences like the home page, calendar, document center, reports and analytics, company settings, mobile app patterns, and shared product components that other teams build on top of.

These are the places where HR admins and employees go to understand what’s happening, what needs attention, what deadlines are coming up, and what actions they need to take.

The team’s work has a particular emphasis on the admin experience: helping HR admins start their day, track deadlines, understand key events, manage documents, review reports, configure settings, and keep their businesses running smoothly.

This is platform-level product design. It is less about linear onboarding or front-door growth flows, and more about designing complex, reusable, high-visibility experiences that need to work across multiple user types, product areas, and business needs.

What you’ll get to do:

• Design across shared logged-in surfaces, including home, calendar, documents, reporting, analytics, settings, and mobile
• Create product experiences for both HR admins and employees, with a strong focus on admin workflows
• Design dashboards, reports, charts, tables, alerts, and other information-rich experiences that help users understand what needs attention
• Think through how shared patterns and logic can scale across the broader product
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Design, Research, Content, Data, and other product areas that may build into or on top of shared surfaces
• Work on web and mobile product experiences, including mobile patterns that may guide other teams
• Create flows, wireframes, prototypes, high-fidelity UI, interaction patterns, and design-system-informed solutions
• Use visuals, prototypes, and storytelling to explain your thinking and build alignment with stakeholders
• Move quickly, learn continuously, and adapt as the product and company evolve
• Contribute to a strong design culture where feedback, learning, iteration, and craft are highly valued

The ideal candidate has:

• 3–5+ years of relevant Product Design experience
• Strong UX and visual UI design craft, with a sharp eye for detail
• Experience designing complex product experiences, ideally in B2B, B2B2C, SaaS, HR Tech, FinTech, EdTech, HealthTech, ATS / recruiting tools, admin tools, internal tools, or analytics products
• Strong systems thinking, with the ability to design patterns that other teams and designers can reuse
• Experience with dashboards, reports, analytics, charts, graphs, tables, settings, permissions, admin workflows, or other information-rich interfaces
• A portfolio that shows analytical product thinking, not just simple form flows or marketing-led experiences
• Ability to explain what the user needed, why you designed something a certain way, and how your solution helped users make decisions or take action
• Comfort working across ambiguity and learning new domains quickly
• Strong communication skills and the ability to tell a clear story with both visuals and verbal explanation
• A collaborative, growth-oriented working style, with openness to feedback and a desire to keep getting better
• Experience working with or contributing to design systems
• Comfort designing for both web and mobile

Nice to haves:

• Experience designing for HR admins, small business owners, managers, employees, or other admin + end-user ecosystems
• Experience with payroll, benefits, HR tools, compliance, fintech, or other complex / high-trust domains
• Experience with ATS, recruiting, workforce management, scheduling, reporting, analytics, permissions, or company settings
• Experience prototyping quickly and using modern design / AI tools to move from idea to interaction
• Interest in service design, journey mapping, or broader experience strategy, though this role is more focused on product and platform design than pure service design

You may be a fit if:

• You like complex product problems where the answer is not obvious
• You enjoy turning complicated information into clear, useful product experiences
• You can zoom out to think about systems, then zoom in to refine the details of the UI
• You’re excited by admin tools, dashboards, reporting, settings, calendars, and other “make the business run” product surfaces
• You’re curious, adaptable, and eager to grow inside a supportive Design org
• You like sharing work early, learning from feedback, and moving with pace
• You want to design products that help SMBs and their employees navigate important moments around work, pay, benefits, documents, and deadlines

TO APPLY:

Sound good? Great! Apply here online, or email us at team (at) joanneweavergroup.com with your resume, portfolio, openness to 2–3x/week onsite in NYC, any visa needs, and desired full-time comp range.

We'll get back to you if it looks like a strong match!

$1,000 Referral Bonus!

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Email us their names at team (at) joanneweavergroup.com and we’ll be so thankful.