Skill Radar — Helping Employers Discover 1B+ Professionals Faster

Year

2026

Platform

Web App

My Role

Product Design

Company

Skillgigs

Overview

Skillgigs wanted to move from a traditional hiring model to a subscription-based platform where employers could discover, contact, and hire talent directly.

We designed Skill Radar, a global talent search platform that gives employers access to 1B+ professional profiles, with tools to invite, communicate, and hire talent through the platform.

This is how the marketplace looked before the subscription model was introduced. At that time, all talent profiles came from our internal database, which had roughly 250K profiles.

The Business Goal

Shift from a service-heavy hiring model to a scalable subscription product.

Employers needed a faster way to:

• Search global talent profiles
• Extract verified contact information
• Invite talent to Skillgigs
• Communicate directly on the platform

The revenue model included:

• Monthly subscription plans
• Credit-based profile/contact unlocks
• Top-up credits for additional searches

User Profile Before Redesign and subscription modal

Research

Employers wanted access to a large talent pool, but existing platforms had major trust issues.

During research, we found that competitors like Loxo often showed:

Irrelevant search results
Duplicate profiles
Inaccurate or outdated data
False contact information
Too much noise in the search experience

This created a clear opportunity: build a smarter, cleaner, and more reliable talent search experience.

Our Approach

We focused on making the search experience simple, fast, and trustworthy.

Key focus areas:

Clean and focused search flow
Better profile visibility
Clear credit usage
Easy contact unlock experience

Simple invite and communication flow
Reduced duplicate and irrelevant profiles
Subscription-first access model

Employers can search for any talent using keywords, and the system displays relevant profiles using data fetched through the ContactOut API.

The Solution

We created Skill Radar, a talent search platform that allows employers to search from 1B+ global profiles, unlock contact details using credits, invite talent to Skillgigs,and communicate directly through the platform.

Core features included: