Product & design hiring

Find product talent.
Hear how they think.

Your AI recruiting team ranks PMs and designers on shipped work, pitches the problem space, runs a product case and a spec review, and gives you a shortlist with reports.

Product case · Reduce checkout drop-offNaira · live
Our checkout loses a third of users at payment. Where do you start?
First I would split the drop by payment method and device before I touch the design.
UPI fails more on Android. What do you do next?
Watch failed sessions, then test a retry state with a clear error and a fallback.
How would you know it worked?
Module score 4.3 / 5
Case round doneTrade-offs explained
Spec improvedIn the document editor

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Product and design hires are judged on decisions and taste. EmployLabs finds people who shipped, reaches them with the real problem, hears them defend their choices and shortlists the few.

What product leaders tell us

Portfolios show the best day.

Everything looks great in a deck

Case studies are edited. You rarely hear what the candidate argued against.

Credit blurs on team work

It is hard to tell what the candidate decided and what the team did around them.

Case rounds eat leadership time

A good product exercise needs your head of product for an hour a candidate.

Who you hire

Product, design and research.

Product management

People who choose what gets built, and why.

Associate product managerProduct managerSenior product managerGroup product managerTechnical product managerProduct owner

Design

Interaction, visual and brand craft.

Product designerUX designerUI designerVisual designerDesign systems leadMotion designer

Research

People who find out what users actually need.

UX researcherUser researcherDesign researcherMarket researcher
The flow for product teams

Find taste, then test the thinking.

Three agents. You see only candidates who defended their decisions.

MeeraAI recruiter
Meet Meera
Find

Match on domain and craft

Meera reads your brief for the stage, the users and the product type, then ranks people on shipped products, public case studies and the domains they have worked in.

YOU NO LONGER
  • browse portfolio sites
  • guess seniority from titles
Product designer shortlistlive
CandidateCurrent roleMatch
Ritika B.Senior Product Designer93%
Nikhil S.Product Manager89%
Aisha F.UX Researcher85%
Tarun G.Design Lead82%
Leena D.Associate PM78%
ZiaOur career strategist
Meet Zia
Reach

Pitch the product, not the post

Zia writes about the problem space, who they would work with and how decisions get made. She answers questions on team size, scope and pay band from the job facts.

EmailWhatsAppSMSCallXReddit
YOU NO LONGER
  • write bespoke intros
  • chase portfolio links
Zia · Product designerZia · every channel
Zia

Hi Ritika, a product designer role on a consumer fintech app. Your case studies stood out.

Ritika

Is the team design-led? And what does the interview cover?

Zia

Yes, design reports to the head of product. The interview has a product case built from the role.

Zia

Booked: interview Thursday 15:30

NairaAI interviewer
Meet Naira
Interview

A product case and a spec review

Naira runs a product case by voice, then the candidate improves a real spec or brief in the document editor, explaining each trade-off. Questions are built from your role.

YOU NO LONGER
  • run first-round cases
  • mark every design task
Product case · Ratedreport
Problem framing88
Trade-offs74
User evidence81
Own contribution69
Quotes tied to the moment in the call
ELYouThe final call
See a sample report
Decide

Meet the people you believe

The report shows what the candidate owned, how they reasoned and where they were vague. Read it, then spend your own hour on the final two.

YOU NO LONGER
  • sit through every case
  • rely on a slide deck
Naira report cardVoice · Naira

Maya ThompsonApplied for Collections SpecialistInterviewed Sep 27, 2026, 38 min

74.0/ 100 overall

AlignedIntegrity 96%English (CEFR) B2
“Clear, calm caller who secured a payment plan without pressure tactics; audit caught 4 of 5 compliance slips. Speaks fluently at a natural call pace.”

Handle a Customer Who Disputes a Past-Due Balance

M2Voice only
Module Score4.1 / 5

Strengths

  • Verified identity before discussing the balance
  • Offered a concrete 3-month plan unprompted

Weaknesses

  • Slight hesitation stating the exact due date
  • Did not repeat the total balance for confirmation

Evidence (transcript quotes)

  • “I understand this is frustrating — let's find a plan that works for you and confirm it today.”
Inside the flow

Product hiring, sourced to shortlist.

From shipped work to a shortlist you believe.

Search

Matched on domain

Meera ranks on shipped products and the domains people worked in.

Senior PM, consumer fintech
B2CPayments0 to 1Growth
Reach

Pitch the problem

Zia writes about the problem space and the team, then books.

Zia
Product case

Case by voice

Frames the problem, picks a metric, proposes an experiment.

Naira · live
Document

Improve a real spec

A brief or PRD reviewed and improved in the document editor.

What is missing from this spec?
A success metric and a rollback.
Add both, then walk me through it.
Shortlist

Strengths by module

Strategy, execution and communication, read by link.

Strategy84
Execution76
Communication90
Control

Presets per role

Fully manual to full pipeline, with a budget cap per role.

Sourcing
Outreach
Full pipeline You
Before & after

Product & design hiring, before and after

The usual way
Portfolio links in a spreadsheet
Great designers lost to slow replies
A head of product runs every case
Design tasks that run for days
Beautiful decks, vague contribution
Hiring spend nobody planned
ELWith EmployLabs
Meera ranks on shipped products and domain
Zia keeps the conversation moving
Naira runs the case and writes up the reasoning
A short spec review in the document editor
A shortlist that quotes what each person owned
A budget cap per role and a dry run
By the numbers

The engineering behind every hire.

Sourcing800M+professional profiles to search
Engagement5M+candidate conversations on every channel
Interviews50K+AI interviews completed
Shortlists10K+shortlists delivered
Time saved200K+recruiter hours saved
Coverage40+industries hired for
FAQ

We have the answers

How it works, what it costs, and what your candidates see.

How does EmployLabs help hire product and design talent?

EmployLabs gives you an AI recruiting team: Meera finds and ranks product managers and designers from their profiles and public work, with a reason for each score. Zia reaches them on six channels and books interviews. Naira interviews by voice with documents and case scenarios, or grades a take-home and follows up by voice, and every report shows evidence.

How can a voice interview judge design?

Naira runs a product case built from your role, then the candidate improves a real spec or brief in the document editor while explaining each trade-off. The report scores the reasoning and what they owned.

Where does the product case come from?

It is built from your role, so it fits your product and users. The same case and rubric then go to every candidate.

What does the spec review look like?

A brief, spec or critique for your role, opened in the document editor. The candidate improves it while talking through the changes, on the same rubric as everyone else.

Do candidates need to share files?

No. They work in the document editor during the call. If you want a take-home, they hand in a document or a slide deck, graded Done, Partial or Not done, then discussed by voice.

Does this work for senior design leads?

Yes. Questions are built from the role, so a design lead is asked about team leadership and critique. Hiring managers read the report by link with no login.

How do you find and reach designers and PMs?

Meera ranks people on shipped products, public case studies and the domains they know. Zia pitches the problem space and the team on six channels, answers scope and pay questions, and books the interview.

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