Design and ship distinctive AI-driven recruiting experiences, taking ambiguous 0→1 concepts from exploration through production while raising visual quality, usability, trust, and delight.
Freelance Senior Product Designer (Fractional)
📜 Description
- Design candidate journeys, company dashboards, and AI interactions end to end.
- Turn ambiguous product challenges into clear user flows and interaction models.
- Build and evolve the product design system from an early stage.
- Conduct interviews and observe sessions to identify and address user friction.
- Contribute to product direction and collaborate with engineering in a distributed, async environment.
🛠️ Requirements
- 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.
✨ Benefits
- Base compensation is $100,000 to $120,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.
Full job description
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.
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