Freelance Senior Product Designer (Fractional)

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.