Product Designer
Company: ELMO Software Pty Ltd
Location: Sydney NSW
Job type: Permanent, Full-time
Benefits
- Parental leave
- Employee assistance program
- Salary packaging
- Birthday leave
- Hybrid work set up
- Paid Parental leave – 12 weeks primary, 6 weeks secondary
- Birthday leave, YOU day each year, connecting people leave (up to 6 weeks working from anywhere)
- In-house Learning and Development initiatives
- ELMO Social and Diversity clubs
- Wellbeing initiatives such as boot camp, yoga, etc.
- Mental Health/EAP programs
- Flare Benefits (great discounts, novated leasing, salary sacrifice)
Full job description
Introduction
Founded in 2002, ELMO Software is the trusted provider of HR technology solutions to more than 2,000 mid-sized organisations and over one million end users across Australia and New?Zealand. With a comprehensive suite of ISO-certified solutions that span the full employee lifecycle, ELMO Software scales as organisations grow. Flexible and configurable, ELMO’s one-stop HRIS fits specific needs and workflows. Through powerful technology, automation, data and analytics, ELMO Software empowers HR professionals to play an integral role in company decision-making.
Life & Culture
At ELMO you will join an epic team with the opportunity to make a big impact. We foster an authentic, collaborative, fun working environment and being an ELMOnian means you’re part of an amazing team that pushes you to grow, supports you with challenges and lets you shine.
Our values
- Reimagine What’s Possible – we believe innovation is human at its core, staying open, fearless and adaptive while keeping people at the heart of everything we do.
- Obsess over Customers – everything we do is designed to positively impact our customers.
- Help Others Thrive – we champion ways to help colleagues, communities or customers thrive.
- Be Fearlessly Optimistic – we bring unwavering positivity to any challenge, driving meaningful change.
Please note: Our internal Talent Acquisition team has this covered; we’re not open to agencies for this role.
Description
As a Product Designer you’ll deliver industry-leading modern, intuitive product experiences across ELMO’s HRIS platform from concept to execution. Reporting to the Design Leader, you’ll be a hands-on member of a cross-functional R&D platform team.
You will work end-to-end through the E2E product design process—from problem discovery and validation, through vision setting, into detailed UX/UI design and delivery for complex, omni-channel workflows serving multiple stakeholder groups. You will collaborate closely with Product Managers, Engineers, other designers and the GTM team to shape product direction, modernise our UX and product identity, and support effective go-to-market communication.
Core Responsibilities
- 4+ years of product design experience with a focus on product design and UI across a variety of digital platforms—Web, Mobile, Responsive Design.
- Strategic collaborator acting as the connective tissue between Product, Engineering and GTM teams, translating complex user needs into technical realities and compelling market narratives.
- Expertise in E2E product design development—from early vision setting, research and concept development, through to detailed design solutions validated to meet business and user goals.
- Ability to clearly communicate concepts and designs through prototypes, sketches, high-fidelity concept design and presentations, using any tools needed to visualise ideas and deliver the work.
- Excellent written and verbal communication and ability to present work to cross-functional teams and executives.
- Plan and conduct design research (customer interviews, contextual inquiry, surveys, usability testing) to validate problem spaces and opportunities.
- Champion the user—through testing, ensuring omni-channel user experiences are inclusive, accessible and delightful for customers and their employees.
- Contribute to and evolve our living design system, crafting reusable, high-quality components that ensure design impact and consistency across platforms, and engineering development efficiency and time to market.
- Experience shipping digital products from start to finish, including documentation and development process.
- Expertise in design tools such as Figma, Miro, Adobe CS.
- Competency with Agile ways of working, AI adoption and software and research tools such as Atlassian, Dovetail, Claude.
- Demonstrated knowledge in the elements, principles and history of graphic design.
Skills and Experiences
- 4+ years of professional experience as a Product Designer, UX/UI Designer or similar role within a SaaS or digital product environment.
- Completed Bachelor’s degree or higher in Product Design, UX Design, Graphic Design, Human-Computer Interaction or a related design discipline.