The Role
🪐 Discover our galaxy
Join the Future of Work ! Malt is Europe's leading freelance marketplace, connecting over 850,000 talented freelancers with 90,000+ companies. Founded in 2013, we're transforming how work gets done through our tech-powered, human-centered platform. What makes us different:
- A diverse team of 600 Malters across 6 European countries
- A culture that champions equality (50% of our Comex are women) and inclusive growth
- Backed by top investors including ISAI, Serena Capital, Eurazeo Growth, Goldman Sachs, and BPI
- A mission to give everyone the freedom to work differently
Ready to help shape the future of work? Your next chapter starts here! 🪐
Explore your future career 🔭
As a Senior Product Designer at Malt, you will shape our most strategic evolution: the transition toward an AI-agentic staffing experience. You will play a pivotal role in designing the next generation of our platform, directly influencing how businesses and freelancers connect through intelligent automation.
In this role, you will go beyond traditional UI to define the strategy and core principles that govern our AI experience. You will translate complex business challenges into "human-in-the-loop" systems, balancing autonomous automation with the transparency and control required for high-stakes hiring decisions.
Join a team that prioritizes AI-native thinking, shaping a product that doesn't just facilitate connections, but actively orchestrates the future of work.
Key responsibilities ✨
- Define Experience Strategy & Lead Design End-to-End: Collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and data scientists to shape strategy and influence roadmaps. You will own the process from initial problem framing to delivery and design QA.
- Architect Agentic Workflows: Design end-to-end experiences for AI agents that proactively navigate complex staffing workflows, helping users articulate needs, identify talent, and manage project scoping with minimal manual friction.
- Master Human-AI Collaboration: Map out intent, define AI guardrails, and create seamless intervention points where users can steer agent actions, ensuring AI remains a trusted, transparent assistant.
- Orchestrate Multi-Step Logic: Map non-linear journeys where AI handles background tasks. Define how the system communicates intent, progress, and requests for information across various user touchpoints.
- Deliver High-Quality Craft: Craft intuitive, elegant solutions guided by strong rationale and a deep understanding of B2B user needs.
- Evolve the Design System for AI: Develop and steward our design system, creating a scalable library of components specifically for human-AI interactions and probabilistic outcomes.
- Drive Design Excellence: Foster a culture of learning and best practices within the team, clearly articulating design decisions to stakeholders to ensure alignment and buy-in.
About you 🧑🚀
- 5+ years of experience in product design, with a strong portfolio showcasing a high level of strategic thinking and a track record of shipping successful B2B or SaaS products.
- A first proven experience designing agentic systems, LLMs, or autonomous AI features.
- Ability to think holistically about the user journey and the broader product ecosystem.
- A fast learner who thrives in an iterative environment and knows when to go deep on a strategic task and when to move fast to execute.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build strong relationships and influence cross-functional partners.
- Experience leveraging AI tools to accelerate your own design and prototyping process.
- Fluency in English is required.
- Experience designing for two-sided marketplaces, HR Tech, or FinTech.
- Familiarity with LLM orchestration frameworks or emerging agentic design patterns.
Bonus Points
How to join the mission? 🚀
- First call with Alex, our Talent Acquisition Manager, to better understand your background, aspirations and answer any questions you may have. (30-45 minutes)
- Interview with your future manager Caroline Caltagirone and/or our VP of Design, Stefanie Fleisch, to delve into your experience and the specifics of the role. (45 minutes)
- Deep Dive session with your future manager and members of the Design Team, where you will present a case study from your portfolio and work on a whiteboard design challenge (90 minutes).
- Cross-functional collaboration interview with one member of the Product Management team and one member of the Engineering team. (45 minutes)
- Final interview with the CPO, Belén Alomar, to discuss Malt’s long-term vision in terms of experience and the future of Design at Malt (30 min)
Malt is the perfect space to thrive personally and professionally 💫
- Onboarding: Before easing into your new role, you’ll spend your first week learning about our culture, products, and services with other new joiners at our office in Paris
- Equity: Every Malter is entitled to stock options
- Malt sabbatical: Every three years, all Malters are entitled to a one month fully paid sabbatical leave
- Free books: If you’re interested in learning more about any topic relevant to Malt’s business, just tell us the books you’d like to read, and we’ll order them for you—without any questions asked or approval processes to follow
- Team building events organized every year
Ready? Get your ticket to Malt 🪐
At Malt, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace. We recruit based on skills, experience, and potential, without any form of discrimination related to age, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, or disability. Our mission is to create a work environment where everyone feels valued, respected, and safe to thrive.
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The Company
What We Do
Malt is a platform that connects businesses with freelancers, finding the perfect match for every project. Our mission is to provide everyone with the freedom to choose what work they do and who they do it with. By helping to redefine the world of work and the relationships we have with it we hope to empower everyone to shape their careers to fit exactly what they’re looking for. Malt was founded in 2013 by Vincent Huguet and Hugo Lassiège, who were both joined by Alexandre Fretti as Co-CEO in 2020. In March 2022, Malt acquired Comatch, enabling us to create a dedicated category for independent management consultants and interim executives where clients can access vetted expertise, known as Malt Strategy. We have now gained the trust of more than 550,000 freelancers and 70,000 clients, becoming one of the leading marketplaces for freelance talent. We are currently operational in nine countries and regions: Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, the Nordics, Spain, Switzerland, the UAE and the UK. Malt has evolved into a successful scaleup with more than 700 employees from 44 different nationalities, who share the same values of care, ambition, joy and autonomy. Join us and become part of the future of work!
