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 opportunity to shape AI driven marketplace products at scale

• A product environment focused on experimentation, validation, and measurable impact

• 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

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