Exceptional AI-pilled designers,
ready to move

Match with vetted product designers screened for skill, availability, sponsorship, and salary fit

Designers in our network have shipped at

Coinbase
Dropbox
Figma
Reve
Ramp
Meta
Roblox
Amazon
Coinbase
Dropbox
Figma
Reve
Ramp
Meta
Roblox
Amazon

Why Riffle

A talent database that doesn't go stale.

Profiles with a pulse

LinkedIn tells you where someone worked three years ago. Every profile in our network is live: availability, openness to move, location and sponsorship needs refresh continuously — never a résumé that went stale the day it was uploaded.

Matched on hireability

Qualified is table stakes. We rank every match by how likely the designer is to accept your offer — timing, availability, and preferences you can't see from the outside — so you interview people who are ready to move.

Vetted on the work

We review portfolios and shipped work — not keywords. Starting with product, motion, and brand designers, every candidate joins through a portfolio review before they can be matched.

Our process

How we work

From open role to accepted offer, in three moves.

01

Share your open role

Send a job description or a short brief. We map what the role actually needs — craft, seniority, domain, and location.

02

We match on two axes

Qualification: we score designers against your role on their actual portfolio work, not keywords. Hireability: availability, timing, sponsorship and location signals rank who's most likely to accept.

03

Meet designers ready to move

Review your matches in the Riffle directory, pick who you want to meet, and we make the warm intro — no job posts, no cold outreach.

Who it's for

Anyone hiring designers.
However you hire.

Startup founders

Hiring your first or second designer

You can't afford a bad hire or a two-month search. Get matched with designers who are vetted, startup-ready, and open to an offer right now.

Design & talent leads

Filling specialised design roles

Product, motion, or brand — skip the sourcing grind. Search a live directory of reviewed portfolios instead of a pile of cold applications.

Agencies & recruiters

Placing designers for clients

Plug into a living, vetted bench instead of maintaining your own. Fresh availability signal on every candidate means fewer dead-end outreaches.

Are you a designer? Join the network — one portfolio review, then matched roles come to you.

Pricing

Simple fees.
No surprises.

Intro

Matches from the live network, delivered as warm intros. You run the process from there.

$999/mo

No placement fee

What's included

  • 2–3 matched designer intros per week
  • Dedicated Slack channel
  • Renews monthly at the same price
  • You handle screening & interviews
Recommended

Partner

Intros plus screening calls, so you only meet candidates worth your time.

$499/mo

+ 10% of first-year compensation on hire

What's included

  • Everything in Intro
  • Screening calls by Riffle
  • Share your booking link — we handle the rest
  • Shortlist of pre-screened candidates
  • 10% placement fee on successful hire

Full Service

End-to-end recruiting support. We run the process so you don't have to.

$499/mo

+ 20% of first-year compensation on hire

What's included

  • Everything in Partner
  • Multi-round coordination & admin
  • Offer negotiation support
  • Single point of contact throughout
  • 20% placement fee on successful hire

30-day money-back guarantee on all plans, no questions asked.

FAQ

Common questions

Riffle is a living database of vetted designers — product, motion, and brand to start. Every designer joins through a portfolio review, and their profile stays live after that: availability, openness to move, location and sponsorship needs are kept fresh. When you bring us a role, we match against that network and hand you designers who fit the brief and are ready to talk.

Sourcing tools search static profiles — a snapshot of where someone worked, taken whenever they last updated it. Riffle's network is alive: we know who's actually open, when they can start, and what they're looking for next. So instead of ranking people by how qualified they look on paper, we can rank them by how likely they are to accept your offer. That's the difference between a long list and a hire.

Two axes. Qualification: we score designers against your role using their actual portfolio work — craft, industry depth, seniority — not keyword matching on résumés. Hireability: live signals like availability, timing, preferred cities, and sponsorship needs rank who is most likely to say yes. You only meet people who clear both bars.

All three. Most of our clients are startup founders hiring their first or second design role, where a miss is expensive. Design leaders at scaling companies use us to fill specialised roles without weeks of sourcing, and agencies and recruiters plug into the network as a live, vetted bench. If you hire designers, it's for you.

We offer a 30-day money-back guarantee on all plans, no questions asked. If you're not satisfied with the matches you receive in the first 30 days, we'll refund your subscription fee in full. The guarantee applies to the base subscription on all three plans. Placement fees are not refundable once a hire has been made.

Feel free to reach out at founders@hiriffle.com or book a call. We're here to help.

Meet your next designer this week.

Tell us about your role and get matches from the live network — designers who fit the brief and are ready to say yes.