How a role gets onto this board
Every listing here has been read before you see it — by a program, and for anything an employer posts directly, by a person. This is exactly what that means, including the parts we get wrong.
We read company job boards directly
Roles come from companies' own hiring systems — Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby and a few others — read straight from the source several times a week. Employers can also post a role here themselves.
Nothing is reposted from another job board, and no agency listings are accepted. If a role is here, the company it names is the company hiring.
Then we throw most of them away
A company board carries every open role. We keep the design ones: product, brand, UX research, design systems, content design, motion, design engineering.
The hard cases are titles that borrow the word. "Solutions design" and "chip design" are not design roles, and a backend engineer whose description happens to mention a design system is not one either. Those are excluded by name, because letting them through is how a design board quietly turns into a general one.
Then we work out where you'd have to be sitting
This is the part other boards skip, and the reason this one exists. Every role gets read for one question: from which countries can someone actually take this job?
The answer comes from the location the employer set on their own listing, because that is the field they are accountable for. A job description's "we hire globally" paragraph is marketing copy, and it never overrides an explicit location. That distinction matters: without it, US-only roles get badged as open worldwide, which is exactly what we found when we checked.
Roles posted here are read by a person
When an employer posts directly, nothing publishes automatically. Someone reads it and checks one thing above all: whether the eligibility they chose matches what their own description actually says.
If it's turned down they're told why, in the reviewer's words, so they can fix it rather than guess. If the description contradicts the eligibility, we correct the label and record that we did.
Applying goes to them, never through a middleman
Every role we aggregate sends you to the employer's own site, and so does an employer-posted role unless that employer chose otherwise. Some do choose otherwise: they take applications here, and the listing says so before you start. Either way we take no fee from you or from them, and we never screen, score or rank anyone.
Where you apply on their site, we can't tell you what happened next — nobody who could is telling us either. Where you apply here, you can see the stage the employer has put you at, and withdraw whenever you like.
When we get it wrong
These are rules written by people, not a model that learned them, so they fail in ways you can see and describe. A role labelled open to Africa that turns you away at the first question is the failure that costs you most — tell us at hello@odana.design and we'll fix the rule, not just the listing.