Akbank Career Lehen Funtzioa: Kontratazio Plataforma by Akbank Design Studio Staff Channel

Akbank Career Lehen Funtzioa: Kontratazio Plataforma by Akbank Design Studio Staff Channel is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2026 Urrezko Saria A' Design Award in Software Diseinua Competition Category.

UrreSoftwarea· 2026

Akbank Career Lehen Funtzioa: Kontratazio Plataforma

by Akbank Design Studio Staff Channel

Client: Akbank T.a.Ş

Urrezko Saria A' Design Award Winner in Softwarea Category

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The Design

About Akbank Career Lehen Funtzioa: Kontratazio Plataforma

Book Testua: Akbank Career kontratazioa esperientzia digital bateratu bihurtzen duen erabateko kontratazio plataforma bat da. Hautagaiak, kontratatzaileak eta kontratazio arduradunak ekosistema bakar batean lotuz, esperientzia aktibo estrategiko gisa kokatzen du. Datuetan oinarritutako ikerketan oinarrituta, plataformak gardentasuna hobetzen du, prozesuak azkartzen ditu eta erabakiak hartzeko kalitatea hobetzen du. Soluzio eskalagarri gisa, kanpoko hornitzaileekiko mendekotasuna murrizten du, epe luzerako eraldaketa digitala bultzatzen duen bitartean.

The Recognition

About the Urrezko Saria A' Design Award

Akbank Career Lehen Funtzioa: Kontratazio Plataforma Urrezko Saria A' Design Award irabazlea da, lehen mailako, zoragarriak eta nabarmenak diren diseinuei ematen zaien aitorpen izugarri prestijiotsua. Urre-mailako irabazleak berrikuntzaz beteriko, ikuspegi handiko eta distiraz liluragarriak diren sorkuntzak dira, beren diseinatzaileen genioa, jakituria eta trebetasuna islatzen dutenak. Akbank Career Lehen Funtzioa: Kontratazio Plataforma oso goraipatua, joera-markatzailea eta monumentala den asmakizuna izatea espero da, balio aurrekaririk gabea eskaintzen duena. Urrezko Saria A' Design Award irabazi duen diseinu hau proiektu ikusgarri eta errespetatua da, artearen, zientziaren, diseinuaren eta teknologiaren mugak oso onuragarriro zabaltzen dituena. Akbank Career Lehen Funtzioa: Kontratazio Plataforma desira-sentimendu biziak sortzen dituen, grina pizten duen, sormena bultzatzen duen eta liluratzen gaituen lana da.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Akbank Career is an end to end recruitment platform that combines candidate journeys and HR operations within a unified ecosystem. Beyond job listings, Explore and Blog sections transparently present company culture, working models, and development opportunities. Candidates can create personalized CVs for broader career use, track applications in real time, and message recruiters throughout the process. Recruiters and managers oversee all processes through a centralized, data informed dashboard.
Dimensions & Packaging: This enterprise recruitment platform unifies candidate journeys, HR operations, document management, and data driven reporting within a scalable digital ecosystem. Developed with an end to end experience approach and a design-system foundation, it runs on OpenShift based backend services with an Angular frontend architecture. The platform works adaptively across web, tablet, and mobile devices.
Tags: Career Website, Candidate Experience, User Experience, User Interface, Human Resources Technologies, Talent Management
Production Technology: The Akbank Career was developed through an iterative product development methodology grounded in user research. Adopting a user experience design approach, the experiences of candidates, recruiters, and hiring managers were addressed holistically, with prototypes and user testing conducted at every phase to validate design decisions. Built using an agile workflow, the platform is designed on a scalable and sustainable architecture integrated with internal systems.
Design Challenge: The core challenge was designing a large-scale career platform that could balance speed, technical constraints, and meaningful user experience. Within tight timelines and evolving technical boundaries, the team needed to translate research insights into practical, scalable design decisions. Coordinating multiple stakeholders across HR, IT, and business units required prioritization and alignment, while ensuring that usability, clarity, and candidate confidence were never compromised.
Research: This project included a mixed-method design research approach to redesign Akbank’s career website throughout the entire design cycle. The objective was to understand candidates’, employees’ and hiring managers’ expectations and remove friction in job discovery and application flows. We combined interviews, workshops, usability tests, surveys, tree tests and benchmarks with over 400 participants. Insights reshaped information architecture, content tone, filters and navigation, resulting in clearer job discovery, improved application experience and a more inclusive, transparent hiring journey.
Inspiration: The Akbank Career was shaped by the observed need for transparency, clarity, and visibility throughout the candidate journey, alongside opportunities to streamline and accelerate internal recruitment operations while eliminating dependency on external development partners.
Project Duration: The project started in October 2023 in Istanbul and finished in March, 2026 in Istanbul and was exhibited in Istanbul, 2026.
Operation Flow: Candidates explore job opportunities at Akbank, review the company’s culture and benefits, and apply to the roles that best match them. They can easily create and download their resumes to use on other platforms. Applicants track their application status through their profile and stay informed throughout the process. HR teams and managers view all candidates and positions in a single dashboard, enabling fast and secure hiring decisions.
Patents: Copyrights belong to Akbank T.A.Ş, 2026.
Team Members: Akbank Design Studio Staff Channel
Image Credits: Image #1: Illustrator, Akbank Design Studio, 2026.
Image #2: Illustrator, Akbank Design Studio, 2026.
Image #3: Illustrator, Akbank Design Studio, 2026.
Image #4: Illustrator, Akbank Design Studio, 2026.
Image #5: Illustrator, Akbank Design Studio, 2026.
Video Credits: Videographer, Akbank Design Studio, 2026.