Freelance Senior Product Designer (Fractional)

Department: Engineering

Location: remote

Employment Type: FullTime

About the Role

Join a small team building an AI-powered recruiting product that helps candidates and companies find strong matches. As a fractional product designer, you will work directly with the founding and engineering teams to shape the product and ship useful, thoughtful experiences.

What You'll Do

• Design end-to-end experiences across candidate journeys, company dashboards, and AI interactions.

• Turn ambiguous product challenges into clear, intuitive user flows and interaction models.

• Build and evolve the product design system from an early stage.

• Conduct lightweight research through interviews and session observation, then identify and address user friction.

• Contribute to product direction and collaborate closely with engineering in a distributed, async environment.

What We're Looking For

• At least 5 years of digital product design experience, including work as a primary or sole designer at a startup.

• A portfolio showcasing shipped web app product work, strong craft, clarity, and thoughtful problem-solving.

• Deep Figma fluency, including product design and design system work.

• Experience designing end-to-end flows for products serving multiple audiences, and building design systems from scratch or at an early stage.

• Ability to work autonomously with minimal direction and communicate effectively with distributed teams.

• Experience with marketplaces or platforms is valuable, as is work on AI-powered products, conversational interfaces, recruiting, HR technology, or talent marketplaces.

Compensation & Benefits

Base compensation is $100,000 to $120,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

Remote worldwide. The role offers a flexible fractional arrangement.