Senior Product Designer

💼 About Valeria

Valeria is building the future of HR and payroll in Spain. We're an AI-native platform that automates contracts, payroll, and compliance for companies with high employee turnover (hospitality, delivery, events, agriculture). We're rethinking how an entire industry works—moving from manual, error-prone processes to intelligent automation.

We're a fast-growing startup backed by top investors, disrupting a €5B+ industry that's still stuck in spreadsheets and legacy software.

🤝 Your Role

HR software has a UX problem. Most tools in this space are complex, outdated, and built for admins, not for the people who actually use them every day. We're fixing that. You will be defining AI-powered workflows that make payroll feel effortless.

You'll report to the CPO and work across the full product, both the core HR/payroll platform and the AI experience layer.

What You’ll Do

We are looking for a Product Designer with technical skills and AI fluency to join our team.

The old way is over, but the design process isn’t. The traditional wireframe → mockup → handoff model no longer fits how great products are built today. We’re looking for someone who uses AI as a core part of their workflow, from rapid prototyping and research synthesis to design and implementation support.

Your job

• Work closely with the CPO, engineering and AI, shipping features that are both beautifully crafted and technically robust.
• Use AI tools (Cursor, v0, Claude Code, Codex) to design and prototype without waiting on engineering
• Ship fast, gather feedback, and adjust
• Shape how AI surfaces in the product: when it acts, when it asks, and when it stays out of the way
• Share ownership of the design system together with the engineering team: challenge it, propose new components, and think actively about how design decisions can compress development cycles
• Lead user research — interviews, usability tests, concept validation — and turn findings into sharp design decisions
• Own the end-to-end design process from discovery to production-ready specs
• You’re comfortable moving between Figma, Claude Code, and AI tools to turn ideas into reality, faster.
  
  

Must-have

• 4+ years of experience in product design b2b, with a strong UX foundation (not just UI)
• Strong technical foundation — Understand how AI systems are built well enough to design intelligently on top of them, and actively think about how design decisions impact development velocity
• A portfolio that shows complex problem-solving — ideally in B2B, SaaS, or data-heavy products
• Experience designing for or alongside AI features (conversational UI, copilots, agentic workflows)
• Strong research instincts — you validate before you build
  
  

Nice-to-have

• Background in HR tech, fintech, or other regulated/complex domains
• Experience setting up a design system from scratch
  
  

Mindset

• Systems thinker with a bias for action.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and moving fast.
• Highly autonomous: sees what needs to be built and makes it happen.
• Obsesses over understanding users and developing exceptional product intuition.
• AI-native by default: willing to challenge established processes and adopt better ways of working.
• Clear, concise communicator in both Spanish and English.
  
  

❤️ What We Offer

• Competitive compensation: €50.000 - €65.000 base salary + Equity
• Free lunch when you're at the office (thanks to Nora )
• Flexible remuneration with Coverflex
• Flexibility: Hybrid setup (HQ in Barcelona)
• Unlimited paid vacation days — take the time you need, no counting days
• Mission-driven work: Transform how payroll and HR are done in Spain—solve real problems for real businesses and their employees
• Founding team impact: Join early enough to shape our GTM strategy, sales culture, and customer relationships
• Ownership and autonomy: Direct collaboration with founders, your voice matters in pricing, positioning, and product decisions
  
  

🗣️ Our hiring process

• Intro call with People (30 min)
• Interview with the CPO (45 min)
• Design challenge — a real problem from our product (take-home + debrief)
• Founders interview (First, 20 minutes with our CTO and then, ours CEO & COO will join the conversation)
• Offer
  
  

🚀 Why Join Valeria Now?

• Timing: We're past the "idea stage" with real customers and revenue, but early enough that you'll define how we scale
• Market opportunity: €5B+ market in Spain, every company with employees needs payroll, and current solutions are outdated and painful
• Product-market fit: We're solving a painful, expensive problem with a product customers actually love
• Career growth: Be a critical product hire, build the playbook, and grow into a leadership role as we scale the team