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.