Designer, Search

Location: US Remote. hirify.global also operates a hybrid employment model for roles near offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, New York, and London.

Salary: $175,000–$190,000 annualized, with the final range determined by geographic location.

Company

hirify.global is a neighborhood network connecting neighbors, public agencies, and businesses around local information across more than 350,000 neighborhoods in 11 countries.

What you will do

• Establish the design foundation, principles, patterns, and components for the Search experience.
• Design the full Search journey, including entry points, typeahead, results, filters, page layouts, and empty or error states.
• Create purpose-built experiences for posts, neighbors, places, businesses, and local answers.
• Partner with data science, machine learning engineering, research, and product management to make ranking and query understanding clear in the interface.
• Define how sponsored and organic results coexist, including ad placement, labeling, volume, and relevance.
• Prototype and run experiments, using results to guide product decisions and improve engagement and revenue.

Requirements

• 5+ years of product design experience, including substantial experience with search, discovery, or dense content-heavy products used by large audiences.
• A portfolio demonstrating problem framing, interaction and visual design, prototyping, and thoughtful loading, empty, and error states.
• Working knowledge of query understanding, retrieval, ranking, machine learning, and LLM-related product experiences.
• Experience partnering with advertising or monetization teams and balancing paid content with user relevance.
• Experience using experimentation, forming hypotheses with product and data partners, interpreting results, and recommending what to ship.
• Familiarity with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Swift, Java, or Xcode.

Nice to have

• Experience across growth, marketplaces, advertising, or new-product development.

Culture & Benefits

• AI-first environment where employees are expected to use tools such as Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, and Glean in their workflow.
• Collaboration with product management, data science, machine learning engineering, and research.
• Meaningful equity grant with quarterly vesting and a first vest date within three months of starting.
• Multiple health plan options, including a fully covered employee-only plan option.
• OneMedical membership for concierge care.
• Inclusive workplace focused on reflecting the diversity of the communities served.