UpikaJob - An HRIS for HR teams and managers

Current role · since January 2024 · sole designer

A platform born to support young talent, now an HRIS. I am its sole designer, from product vision through to the front-end.

The product today

An HRIS that equips HR teams and managers day to day

People steering, review campaigns, AI-generated summaries, tracking indicators: designed screen by screen, then shipped in pair with the developer.

Overview

UpikaJob is now an HRIS: a platform that equips HR teams and managers to follow their people - reviews, skills, objectives, steering indicators. It began as something quite different, a tool for training organisations supporting young talent into work. I have been its sole designer since January 2024, and I lived that transformation from the inside, from the first redesigns through to the product as it stands today.

Challenge

The company realised its craft - structuring guidance, making progress measurable, equipping a mentor - reached far beyond apprenticeships. That meant speaking to a far more demanding audience, HR professionals, without disowning the expertise that made the product strong. A change of scale as much as of audience: more data, more roles, more business rules, and the usability expectations of a tool people live in all day.

Solution

Several successive redesigns, each carrying a shift in vision rather than a simple refresh. A visual identity reworked in depth, then a design system shared with the developer - primitives, tokens, documented components - so that coherence would hold as the product grew. And features taken end to end: user interviews and tests, framing, trade-offs, specs, design, then front-end in pair through to release.

Outcome

A complete HR platform whose design I now carry end to end: product vision, UX/UI, design system and front-end. I also designed then built the marketing site on my own, with AI-assisted coding tools, and I produce the brand's content: video, motion design, print, social media.

By the numbers

AI-assisted reviews, whose flows I designed and whose screens I built, sit at the heart of the product: 200,000 reviews have been held to date. UpikaJob is used by 50,000 employees in large groups, with a usage rate above 80%. In 2025, the product won the Sopra Steria AI & HR Innovation Award, together with SPIE.

The product did not always look like this.

At first
The product
A tool for training organisations
UpikaJob supported young talent entering the workforce: tracking apprentices, interns and junior employees, with day-to-day guidance built in.
My role
UI/UX Designer
I took over the existing journeys, made the screens more reliable and brought components into line.
The dashboard when I arrived
Young talent, by the numbers
First turn
The expertise built around young talent turns out to matter far beyond training organisations.
Then
The product
The scope widens
HR teams and managers become users in their own right. The product moves beyond training and into talent management.
My role
Designer of the redesigns
I led the successive redesigns, reworked the visual identity and logotype, and laid the foundations of a design system shared with the developer.
Logotype variations
Type scale and tokens
Component library
File structure and shared styles
Change of course
UpikaJob becomes an HRIS - a complete HR platform, without giving up what it does best.
Next
The product
An HR platform
Talent management, team tracking, tools for managers: the product gains functional depth and a higher bar for quality.
My role
Product Designer
I frame the product vision and UX decisions, then design the new product's interface, screen after screen, for HR professionals.
A manager's dashboard
New identity, new interface
In depth
The product
Features in their own right
Annual reviews, AI-generated summaries, chatbot, skills mapping, steering indicators, employee profiles: each building block calls for its own framing.
My role
Designing end to end
User interviews and tests, client feedback gathered first-hand, specs, sprints: every feature, AI screens included, goes from framing to release, paired daily with the developer.
AI-estimated scores, category by category
HR steering indicators
Today
The product
An HRIS in its own right
The platform serves HR teams and managers - and speaks to them right down to its public site: offering, pricing, documentation.
My role
Product Designer - design & implementation
I take charge of the product's front-end, paired with the developer. The marketing site, I designed then built on my own.
Site home page
Solution overview
Pricing
Right now
The product
A ready-to-use offering
An online offering a company can get started with on its own: a six-step setup assistant, ready-to-use review templates and a card-based form editor.
My role
Designing the onboarding
I am putting the off-the-shelf offering in place: the setup guided by Upikat, the app's assistant, the review templates and the form editor.
The card-based form editor
Upikat welcomes and guides the setup
Pick a template and see how it unfolds
The summary before launch