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My titles never said “Design Systems Designer,” so keyword search skipped me every time. This is that search, fixed.
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Most AI recruiting tools either hand over a score with no reasoning or act on candidates by themselves. This one does neither.
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Profiles used to be orphaned, reachable only from inside a job. Now every candidate has a home.
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The marketing site.
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Roster
A hiring search that ranks people by the work they’ve done instead of their job title. I designed and built the product, the brand and the marketing site.
I started Roster while job hunting. My titles have said “Lead UX” and “Product Designer,” never “Design Systems Designer,” so a keyword search for design systems skips me every time. I’ve also designed ATS and careers tools, including work with Lever and Allegiant, so I know how those tools read a candidate and why they miss people.
Roster ranks people by their work: portfolios, shipped work, case studies, open source and the recruiter’s own ATS. The AI ranks and explains. The recruiter makes every call.
Facts pulled from someone’s work are stated plainly, and anything the AI infers is marked as an inference, with the evidence attached. When the AI can’t explain a ranking, it says so instead of inventing a reason. Recruiters can change what matters for each job and watch the list re-rank.
The marketing site has to explain what Roster does, and why it’s different, within a few seconds. Most hiring tools feel heavy and corporate. Roster uses violet, soft blue and plenty of white space, with the earth as a motif for people everywhere the work lives. The logo is an R broken into upright pillars.
Rather than state its main claim, the site lets you try it. Flip the title search vs. Roster toggle and watch the ranking change, ask the assistant a question, or drag the priority slider to re-rank. Each demo is a working component.