Hire product designers
who actually ship.
Personally introduced. Properly vetted. Ready to make an impact. No keyword matching. No anonymous CV pile. Stuart personally speaks to every single candidate so you meet people who are right for you.
Trusted by.
WHO’S BEHIND PDP
Hi, I’m Stuart.
Founder, Product Design People
working in design recruitment
review every application
placements made and counting
WHEN YOU WORK WITH PDP
I get underneath the brief, not just the job description.
I search beyond the obvious active candidates.
I align motivation, salary and expectations before an introduction.
I stay close through interviews, offers and onboarding.
A PERSONAL COMMITMENT
I'll only introduce people I'd genuinely back for the role.
Founder, Product Design People.
What I can help you hire.
UI, Interaction, Visual Design, Animation, Design Systems.
Research, Discovery, Interviews, Prototyping, Testing.
Research, Workshops, Journey Maps, Service Blueprints.
Ai Agents, LLMs, Internal GPTs, Enterprise Ai systems
How it works.
A shortlist you’d actually want to meet.
Personally sourced and screened. Every candidate is spoken to by Stuart.
Motivations and salary aligned. We check ambitions, availability and expectations.
Honest feedback throughout. Clear advice on fit, trade offs and timing.
SaaS
Fintech
B2B
SaaS
Fintech
B2B
SaaS
Fintech
B2B
Trusted to deliver.
When growing and hiring for my team, Stuart quickly understood the premium level of candidates in both design skills and soft skills that I demanded and would only suggest the very best candidates. This made the interviewing and hiring process easy and saved me hours of potentially wasted time with candidates that weren’t right. I regard Stuart very highly and he's a genuinely lovely person to work with.
Designit - a Wipro Company
Three weeks
Time to hire
Five years & counting
Still in the role
Great work gets someone noticed. But it doesn't tell you what they actually owned, how they reached decisions, how they work when things get messy, or whether they'll thrive in your team.
Beautiful work can hide a lot of hands. We establish what they personally owned, where they influenced the outcome and what was already there when they arrived.
Talk me through the bits that were actually yours.
We’re interested in the messy middle – the evidence, trade-offs and constraints behind the final product, not just the polished screens
What changed because of something you learned?
A brilliant designer in a mature design team isn’t automatically the right designer for a scrappy 0→1 product – and vice versa. We understand the environments where they thrive.
What did the team look like around you?
The strongest designers don’t work in isolation. We look at how they challenge, communicate and collaborate across product, engineering, research and leadership.
Tell me about a decision you changed someone’s mind on.
A clearer picture. A stronger hire.
You get more than a shortlist. You get the context and confidence to make the right decision – first time.
Very different designer.
Senior Product Designer can mean almost anything. Same title. Completely different experience.
I don’t recruit titles.
I look at the work behind them.
A job title tells you surprisingly little. What sits behind it is what matters.
Tell me what you’re building and who you need.
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