Product Designer AI First

Product Designer (AI First)

Build AI driven marketplace experiences at scale

At Striive, we are evolving from a structured services platform into a modular, intelligence driven marketplace.

That shift changes how professionals discover work, how partners configure and deliver services, and how decisions are made across the platform.

We are looking for a Product Designer who can help shape that transition.

This role sits at the intersection of product strategy, behavioural design, discovery, and AI enabled user experiences. You will work across both sides of a two sided marketplace and translate complex product challenges into validated experiences with measurable impact.

Why this role exists

As the platform scales internationally, several challenges become increasingly important:

• Reducing complexity in decision making journeys
• Enabling scalable partner self service and configuration tooling
• Improving conversion, activation, retention, and operational efficiency
• Embedding AI into workflows in ways users actually trust and adopt
  
  

This role exists to turn those challenges into validated product improvements.

Discovery first mindset

This is a strongly discovery led role.

Before building solutions, you help define and validate what should be built. We value experimentation, behavioural evidence, and measurable learning over assumptions or hierarchy.

You Regularly Use:

• Lightweight concepts and mockups to test assumptions early
• Fake door landing pages to validate demand
• Clickable prototypes to test behaviour before development
• Rapid experiments to reduce product and delivery risk
  
  

Scope of work

You own end to end product design across a two sided marketplace environment.

Professional side

You Design Experiences Such As:

• Onboarding and activation journeys
• Modular service and pricing flows
• Assignment continuity and re engagement experiences
• Financial and compliance related product surfaces
• AI supported readiness and decision guidance
  
  

Partner side

You Design Experiences Such As:

• Partner onboarding and configuration tooling
• Workforce and talent pool management environments
• Operational and compliance dashboards
• Demand, sector, and client intelligence experiences
• Segmented journeys based on partner maturity and scale
  
  

AI in the product and workflow

AI is embedded within core product flows and decision making journeys, not added as a standalone feature layer.

You Help Design:

• Recommendation and matching systems
• Readiness and decision support tooling
• Conversational onboarding experiences
• Predictive insights related to demand, compliance, and workforce planning
  
  

We are looking for a designer who treats AI as practical product capability and actively uses modern AI tooling as part of their workflow.

You are comfortable using tools such as Cursor, Claude, v0, Lovable, or Figma Make to rapidly move from concept to testable prototype. We value fast iteration cycles and independent experimentation.

What Success Looks Like

In this role, success means:

• Improved conversion, activation, and retention across critical journeys
• Reduced manual effort within onboarding and operational workflows
• Better validated product decisions before engineering investment
• AI driven experiences successfully adopted within live workflows
• Clear segmentation and personalisation across marketplace journeys
  
  

What We Offer

• Direct influence on product direction and customer experience
• The opportuity to shape AI driven marketplace products at scale
• A product environment focused on experimentation, validation, and measurable impact
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• High ownership and close collaboration with product and engineering teams
• Hybrid working with flexible hours and an office in Hoofddorp
• 27 vacation days with the option to purchase additional leave
• Holiday allowance and pension scheme
• AI tooling budget and continuous learning support
• Competitive senior level salary and benefits package
  

How To Apply

Please send your portfolio together with your application.

We Specifically Review For:

• Two sided marketplace or platform work
• Demonstrated impact on product metrics
• End to end journey ownership
• Discovery led product thinking
• AI supported workflows or prototypes
• The ability to connect design decisions to measurable business outcomes
  
  

Here’s what we offer you

Vakantiegeld en vrije dagen

Je ontvangt 8,33% vakantiegeld en hebt recht op 27 vakantiedagen per jaar op basis van een fulltime dienstverband. Zo heb je voldoende ruimte om op te laden.

Hybride werken

Wij ondersteunen hybride werken en hanteren hiervoor een 60/40-verdeling, waarbij je bij een fulltime dienstverband drie dagen op kantoor bent en twee dagen vanuit huis kunt werken.

Premievrij pensioen

Wij betalen jouw volledige pensioenpremie. Je bouwt dus pensioen op zonder dat je daar zelf aan bijdraagt. Je houdt hierdoor een hoger nettosalaris over.

Prestatiebonus

Afhankelijk van jouw prestaties én die van HeadFirst Group kun je jaarlijks een extra beloning ontvangen van één of twee maandsalarissen.

Maandelijkse extra’s

Je ontvangt een maandelijkse vergoeding voor internet, een vitaliteitsbudget, een bijdrage voor lunch en ondersteuning bij het inrichten van je thuiswerkplek.

What we expect from you

Requirements

We care more about demonstrated capability and product impact than years of experience or job titles.

We Are Particularly Interested In Candidates Who Can Demonstrate:

• A portfolio containing both:
• at least one B2B or partner product environment, such as dashboards, operational tooling, configuration flows, or multi role experiences
• at least one consumer facing journey focused on onboarding, activation, conversion, or persuasion
• A product flow that measurably improved conversion, activation, retention, or monetisation
• End to end journey thinking rather than isolated interface work
• Strong discovery ownership, including interviews, testing, validation, and experimentation
• The ability to connect design decisions to behavioural insight, product metrics, and commercial outcomes
• Comfort working with product analytics and data heavy workflows
• Experience using AI tooling to accelerate research, prototyping, iteration, or product exploration
  

Nice to have

• Marketplace or platform experience
• Experience within HR tech, fintech, or operational SaaS environments
• Experience with configuration heavy B2B products
• Exposure to international product organisations
• Experience designing AI assisted product experiences
• Dutch language skills are helpful, but not required