Julia Edlinger is a product designer who turns ambiguous 0→1 ideas into thoughtful products.

Recruiting dashboard interface preview
Remote
Staff product designer
2021—2026

As the Staff Product Designer on Recruit, I shaped a 0→1 product opportunity into a connected hiring system: helping companies discover, evaluate, and move candidates toward hire within Remote’s global employment platform.

Through research with recruiting teams, we found that hiring work was spread across disconnected tools, creating duplicate effort, inconsistent candidate data, and slow handoffs between sourcing, screening, and hiring.
Remote Recruit dashboard in use
I helped define where AI could create meaningful product value: reducing manual work, highlighting patterns, and supporting recruiter judgment without replacing it.
A key design challenge was connecting both sides of hiring: the candidate experience of discovering roles and the employer workflow of sourcing, evaluating, and moving people toward hire. Designing Recruit meant creating one interconnected hiring system, not another isolated recruiting tool.

Feedback from peers

“After spending decades in hiring, it's really hard to surprise me but Julia has set a really high bar. I'm really impressed by Julia's focus on innovation, excellence, and intensity.”

Anastasia Pshegodskaya
Anastasia Pshegodskaya
Director, Talent Acquisition

“Julia has been the backbone of the Recruit area since its creation. Recruit could not be where they are currently without her work.”

Malte Sellmer
Malte Sellmer
Senior Frontend Engineer

“What stands out most is her curiosity. She’s genuinely open to trying new approaches, which in product design is rarer than it sounds.”

André Alberto
André Alberto
Brand Design Manager

“You are one of my most favorite designers I've worked with, ever. Please keep spreading your knowledge, kindness and efficiency.”

Sandrina Pereira
Sandrina Pereira
Staff Frontend Engineer II

Side projects

Bowlo

Spring 2026

Bowlo brings the ease of a hotel menu into everyday healthy eating: one day, two meals, and enough flexibility to make it feel personal.

Bowlo meal planning interface
PostClub

Autumn 2025

PostClub explores a calmer way to follow the internet: one place to save, revisit, and organize meaningful content that would otherwise disappear across blogs, newsletters, social posts, and random links.

Sweatmaps

Autumn 2022

Sweatmaps turns Strava activity data into a personal yearly artifact: transforming runs and rides from raw metrics into something people can keep, share, and feel proud of.

Julia Edlinger

As a designer,
I've worn many hats.

I bring structure to complex product spaces.
I work best in ambiguous environments where the challenge is not just designing screens, but shaping the product, workflows, and mental models behind them.

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