MeritFinder

AI‑Powered Hiring Platform

Senior Product Designer

US2024–2025

MeritFinder streamlines recruitment for both employers and job seekers. Recruiters access AI-powered dashboards with structured data, scoring, and insights for faster, confident decisions. Candidates follow a clear, guided journey across applications, assessments, and interviews, on mobile and desktop. Designed with a full design system, dedicated landing pages, and multi-device consistency, the platform delivers a cohesive, intuitive, and high-impact hiring experience.

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The Challenge

Hiring is not just a workflow; it's a high-stakes decision-making process shaped by uncertainty, time pressure, and large volumes of information. With the introduction of AI, the potential to improve this process is significant, but so is the complexity. What should feel like a smarter system can quickly become overwhelming, opaque, and difficult to trust. For recruiters, the challenge was to transform a fragmented and manual process into a structured, AI-powered system. From defining roles and requirements to generating assessments, conducting interviews, and evaluating candidates, every step needed to be faster, clearer, and more consistent. At the same time, large amounts of candidate data, including scores, insights, and performance metrics, had to be organized into dense tables without sacrificing clarity or usability. For candidates, the experience needed to feel simple and human. Discovering opportunities, completing assessments, and participating in interviews had to be seamless, guided, and stress-free, despite the complexity behind the scenes.

Our Core Challenge Was Not Just Designing Features, But Making An AI-Powered Hiring System Feel Intuitive, Transparent, And Reliable, For Both Sides Of The Experience.

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My Role

Led end-to-end product design across recruiter and candidate experiences Designed for both desktop and mobile platforms Collaborated closely with product and engineering teams Translated AI capabilities into usable, real-world workflows

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What I Delivered

Recruiter Dashboard

Designed a data-rich dashboard for recruiters to manage job creation, candidate evaluation, assessments, interviews, and AI-generated insights, ensuring clarity across complex data tables and decision-making flows.

Candidate Dashboard

Designed a dedicated candidate experience to explore job opportunities, complete assessments, participate in interviews, and track progress seamlessly across the hiring journey.

Landing Page Experience

Designed the marketing landing experience to clearly communicate the platform's value, guide users into the product, and support conversion.

Design System

Built and defined a scalable design system, including UI components, interaction patterns, and visual foundations, ensuring consistency and efficiency across the entire product.

End-to-End Product Design

Delivered the full product experience across all touchpoints from entry (landing) to dashboards and multi-sided workflows.

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Design Approach

I approached this project by breaking down complexity into structured layers:

1. Understanding the Workflow

Mapped recruiter and candidate journeys to identify friction points and inefficiencies

2. Structuring Information

Redesigned information architecture to make data readable, scannable, and actionable

3. Simplifying Interactions

Introduced step-by-step flows to reduce cognitive load and guide users through tasks

4. Making AI Understandable

Designed interactions that make AI outputs transparent, explainable, and trustworthy

5. Iterating with Feedback

Validated decisions through usability testing and continuous iteration

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Key Solutions

01

Recruiter Dashboard: From Data Overload to Clarity

Structured dashboards with clear hierarchy, filtering, and actionable AI-generated insights. Recruiters can quickly evaluate candidates, manage assessments and interviews, and make confident decisions across large datasets.

02

Candidate Dashboard & Journey: Guided and Seamless

End-to-end candidate experience across mobile and desktop. Transformed fragmented application, assessment, and interview steps into a guided, intuitive flow with clear feedback and progress tracking.

03

AI Integration: Transparent, Actionable Insights

Redesigned AI-generated job descriptions, scoring, and candidate insights to make complex data understandable and actionable, reducing uncertainty and building trust for both recruiters and candidates.

04

Workflow & Interaction Simplification: Reducing Friction

Complex hiring processes were restructured into smaller, manageable steps for both recruiters and candidates, improving completion rates, task clarity, and overall adoption.

05

Design System: Consistency Across Touchpoints

Built a scalable design system covering dashboards, landing pages, and multi-device experiences. Defined UI components, interaction patterns, and visual foundations to ensure cohesive and efficient cross-platform design.

Impact

Increased hiring efficiency

Streamlined recruiter and candidate workflows reduced task completion time and improved assessment and interview throughput.

Improved candidate experience

Clear, guided journeys across mobile and desktop increased engagement and reduced drop-offs.

Enhanced recruiter decision-making

Structured dashboards with AI insights enabled faster, data-driven hiring decisions.

Simplified multi-sided workflows

Both recruiter and candidate processes became intuitive, actionable, and frictionless.