Talent is a suite of HR products that allow companies to search and acquire top tier talent to join their work forces. This suite is comprised of three core products as of right now (Attract/Offer, Onboard, Core HR) that lead the user from beginning to end in the hiring process, starting from search and acquisition, sending an offer to the candidate, on-boarding, and management of your employees. As a product designer on this team, I am required to work in a fast paced, sprint based environment, where I work closely with my fellow engineer and design counterparts. The work I do ranges from creating entire new features for the apps that are research based and asked for by customers to creating moments of delight through illustration and other branding efforts.

Design process

I work in a fast-paced sprint based environment that is focused to pushing out new features about every 2-6 weeks depending on the weight and scale of the workload expected for the features I work on. Talent specifically is a faster paced team as we are a newer product team that emphasizes the relationship between designers and developers so we can churn out product patches and features with less constraints.

If I were to break down our design process into actual steps, there are about 13:
Research —> Scoping & framing —> Customer conversations —> Design —> Iterate —> Prototype —> Research validation —> Accessibility validation —> Sign off —> Develop —> Release —> Customer feedback —> Iterate

Human interface guideline articles

As of right now, I have written the articles for:

Part of my responsibilities as a product designer on this team is to pioneer the efforts of our design language and use of components within our projects. This includes taking existing or creating new components for our studio library and writing a usage guide to validate a designer’s choice of usage as well as bridging the gap between design and engineering so that the engineers on our team have an understanding of our design decisions.