Case Study · 02
Zenjob · HR Tech · Marketplace Order Management vertical

From job creation to
talent selection.

Designing the employer-side experience for a short-term staffing marketplace.

At Zenjob, I worked on the B2B side of a two-sided talent marketplace. Companies used the platform to create and publish short-term jobs, review matched talent, select preferred candidates, and follow the hiring process. My responsibility was to help make this process clearer, faster, and more scalable for employers and internal operational teams.

Role
Product Manager · Order Management
Company
Zenjob
Product
B2B marketplace
Users
Employers · Ops teams
The Challenge

A multi-step, multi-stakeholder hiring flow.

Creating and filling a short-term job involved several steps and multiple stakeholders. Employers needed a fast, confident path through job creation and talent selection — while internal operations teams needed reliable workflows and visibility to support customers without relying on excessive manual work.

  • Define the job and shift requirements
  • Reuse existing job templates
  • Publish roles to the marketplace
  • Review available talent
  • Identify preferred or favourite talent
  • Understand where candidates were in the process
  • Make decisions quickly enough to fill urgent shifts
My Role

Product Manager.
Order Management vertical.

I owned the employer-facing side of the marketplace end to end — from strategy and discovery through delivery, automation, and stakeholder alignment.

Product strategy and roadmap for the employer workflow
Customer and stakeholder discovery
Process mapping
Requirements and prioritisation
Collaboration with design, engineering, and operations
Workflow automation opportunities
Success metrics and validation
Iterative delivery and stakeholder alignment
What I developed

The employer journey, end to end.

01

Create a job

Employers could define the role, location, shift time, requirements, and other relevant details.

02

Reuse templates

Companies could use existing templates to avoid repeatedly entering the same information for similar jobs.

03

Publish to the marketplace

The job could be made available to suitable short-term talent.

04

Review talent

Employers could review talent connected to the job and understand their status within the process.

05

Select preferred talent

Companies could identify favourite or preferred talent to support faster and more confident decisions.

06

Track the process

Employers and operational teams gained clearer visibility into the progress of the job and its associated talent.

Strategic Product Insight
"For employers, the product was not simply a job-posting form. It was an operational decision workflow that had to connect job creation, talent availability, selection, and fulfilment."
Product Visuals

The employer surface, illustrated.

Illustrative reconstruction based on my product work — not original Zenjob screenshots.

employer.zenjob.com / jobs / new
1Job details2Shift & location3Requirements4Choose template5Review & publish
Job titleWarehouse Associate
LocationBerlin · Tempelhof Logistics Hub
Shift date & timeMon 12 Aug · 08:00 – 16:00
Number of talents needed6
Required experienceForklift license · Warehouse (6+ months)
Template · Warehouse — Berlin (recurring)
Employer Job Creation
A structured workflow that helped companies create and publish short-term jobs while reusing templates for recurring demand.
employer.zenjob.com / jobs / #4821 / talent
Matched24To review8Favourites3Selected5Confirmed4
A
Anna W. 4.9New
Warehouse · 2 yrs · Forklift
Available: Mon–Fri · Berlin
J
Jonas K. 4.7Viewed
Logistics · 3 yrs
Available: Mon, Wed, Fri
M
Malika R. 4.8New
Warehouse · 1 yr
Available: Full week · flexible
T
Tariq A. 4.6Viewed
Warehouse · 4 yrs · Forklift
Available: Mon–Thu
Talent Review and Selection
A clearer way for employers to review matched talent, identify preferred candidates, and understand progress through the hiring process.
Multi-persona complexity

Three sides of the marketplace to balance.

Product decisions had to account for the full marketplace rather than optimising only one user experience.

Employers

Needed speed, visibility, suitable talent, and a simple workflow.

Short-term talent

Needed clear job information and a reliable application and selection experience.

Internal operations teams

Needed structured processes, status visibility, and fewer manual interventions.

Product Discovery

Finding where the process actually broke.

The aim was to understand where employers became blocked, which steps generated manual work, and where automation could improve the end-to-end process.

Employer interviews
Internal operations feedback
Process mapping
Product and operational data
User journey analysis
Validation loops
Cross-functional workshops
Operational Automation

Designing for scale, not manual intervention.

A major part of the work was identifying where recurring operational tasks could be replaced by clearer product workflows and automation.

By improving the underlying order-management journey, the team reduced avoidable operational effort and created a more scalable process for managing jobs and talent.

Contribution
600+
operational hours saved per month

Contributed to automation initiatives that reduced repeated manual work across the order-management lifecycle.

What this case study demonstrates

Evidence-based skills.

B2B workflow design

Turning a complex employer process into a structured product journey.

Marketplace product thinking

Balancing employer, talent, and operational-team needs.

Operational automation

Identifying repeated manual work and replacing it with scalable workflows.

Cross-functional leadership

Aligning engineering, design, and operations around measurable outcomes.

Product discovery

Using interviews, analytics, and process mapping to identify the highest-value problems.

Data-informed decisions

Combining product and operational data to guide roadmap and prioritisation.

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