Overview
Background
Puck helps companies attract and engage candidates through job boards, AI-powered matching, and employer branding tools. Many customers wanted to use these features but lacked an applicant tracking system to manage their hiring pipeline.
Small recruiting teams, agencies, and startups often faced a choice: use Puck’s powerful sourcing tools alongside a cumbersome enterprise ATS, or cobble together spreadsheets and email. Neither option worked well.
Problem
Recruiters wanted to use Puck’s job boards and applicant matching but didn’t have an ATS—or faced significant overhead integrating with existing systems. The friction prevented full adoption of Puck’s workflow.
Opportunity
A lightweight ATS built into Puck could eliminate this friction—giving teams a simple way to post jobs, screen applicants with AI, and manage hiring stages without leaving the platform.
Solution
Designed lightweight ATS for managing candidates across stages. The interface makes it easy to see where every candidate stands, move them through stages, and take action.
Puck ATS allowed teams without an ATS or with a clunky ATS to adopt the full Puck platform including the CRM, Sequences, and Puck job pages without the complexity of other ATS systems.
Role
Senior Product Designer owning end-to-end design for pipeline visualization and stage management.
Team
Worked with Product Manager and engineering team to balance simplicity with the features teams actually need.