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Product & design hiring · Design & Creative

Hire a Product Designer who can do the job — and prove it in 30 minutes.

Product designers create user-centered experiences that solve real problems and delight users. You balance user needs with business goals, translating insights into effective design solutions. SealHire’s interviewer runs a structured, adaptive conversation built for this role, records it, and hands your team a sealed report where every score links to the moment that earned it.

What the interview probes

The 5 skills a Product Designer is interviewed on.

Each is probed with follow-ups built from the candidate’s own answer, and scored against the level you set — with the quote and the timestamp behind every score.

1. User Research

Probed to the level of a real example: what they did, what happened, what they would change.

2. Information Architecture

Probed to the level of a real example: what they did, what happened, what they would change.

3. Visual Design

Probed to the level of a real example: what they did, what happened, what they would change.

4. Prototyping

Probed to the level of a real example: what they did, what happened, what they would change.

5. Design Systems

Probed to the level of a real example: what they did, what happened, what they would change.

What a strong candidate shows

The brief the interviewer works from.

The work

  • Conduct user research to inform design decisions and validate concepts
  • Develop information architecture that supports intuitive navigation and workflows
  • Create visually appealing designs that align with brand guidelines
  • Prototype interactions to test and refine user experience
  • Contribute to and maintain design systems for consistency across products

What it takes

  • Proficient in user research methods and techniques
  • Skilled in crafting information architecture and user flows
  • Experience with visual design tools like Figma
  • Ability to prototype and iterate on design ideas
  • Familiar with building and maintaining design systems
Interview format

30 minutes, at the level you are hiring for.

Length

About 30 minutes of live conversation, taken from a link on any device, at any hour. No app, no account.

Levels offered

Entry / Junior · Mid-level · Senior · Lead / Staff / Principal · Manager · Director / Head of. The brief sets the level; the questions and the bar move with it.

What you get

A sealed recording and timestamped transcript, integrity signals observed during the interview, and a report with a recommendation and the evidence behind it.

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Free pilot, no credit card. Set the brief, send the links, review the evidence.

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