Fractional Product Designer – Remote

About the role

This is a fractional product design role at an early‑stage AI‑powered talent marketplace, working directly with the founding team and engineering to shape the full design surface of a product that changes how people find jobs. You’ll be the design voice in the room with real ownership and no layers of approval slowing you down.

Key responsibilities

• Own the entire design surface, including product UI, candidate‑facing experiences, company dashboards, and the AI interaction layer.
• Turn ambiguous problems into clean, intuitive end‑to‑end flows while maintaining a high bar for craft.
• Build and evolve the design system from the ground up as the product grows.
• Run lightweight user research by conducting interviews, watching sessions, and identifying friction points with both candidates and companies.
• Partner directly with founders and engineering to ship product quickly and iteratively.
• Contribute to product direction beyond pixels, offering input on strategy and priorities alongside the founding team.

Required profile

• 5+ years designing digital products, with significant startup experience as the primary or sole designer.
• Deep fluency in Figma for product design and design‑system work.
• Portfolio demonstrating taste, clarity, and thoughtfulness through shipped work.
• Experience designing end‑to‑end flows and interaction models for multi‑stakeholder products.
• Experience building design systems from scratch or at an early stage.
• Comfortable conducting lightweight user research and translating findings into product decisions.
• Ability to work autonomously with minimal direction in an async, distributed team.
• Currently active in product design work, not returning after a long gap.

Required skills

• Figma

What we offer

• Competitive annual compensation ranging from $100,000 to $120,000 USD, structured as a fractional freelance or contractor engagement.
• Fully remote work, open to candidates worldwide (visa sponsorship not available).