Fractional Senior Product Designer

About the Role

We’re looking for a mid-to-senior level Product Designer to join us on a 6-month contract and help carry forward critical design work during a planned team transition. This role is intentionally timed to allow overlap with two senior designers before they roll off, ensuring continuity, context transfer, and momentum.

You’ll work hands-on across product and UX design, partnering closely with Product Management and Engineering to design thoughtful, usable experiences for complex workflows. This role is ideal for a designer who is comfortable operating independently, thrives in fast-moving environments, and brings both systems thinking and craft.

Bay Area candidates are preferred to enable close collaboration, though we’re open to flexibility for the right person.

• Own end-to-end product and UX design for key product areas during a transition period.
• Translate complex product requirements and technical concepts into intuitive user experiences.
• Design user flows, interaction models, wireframes, and high-fidelity mockups.
• Collaborate closely with Product and Engineering to scope, iterate, and deliver solutions.
• Contribute to discovery work, including research synthesis, journey mapping, and usability testing.
• Maintain and evolve existing design patterns and systems.
• Ensure smooth handoff and continuity through structured overlap with outgoing designers.

4–7+ years of experience as a Product Designer, UX Designer, or Interaction Designer.

Experience working across a mix of startup and mid-to-large tech environments.

Strong foundation in user-centered design, interaction design, and systems thinking.

• Proven ability to design for complex, workflow-heavy or enterprise products.
• Strong communication skills and comfort working cross-functionally.
• Ability to ramp quickly, work independently, and deliver impact in a contract role.

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in HCI, Interaction Design, Cognitive Science, or a related field.

Experience designing technical products, developer tools, AI-powered products, or internal platforms.

• Comfort working onsite or hybrid in the Bay Area.
• Experience stepping into teams midstream and maintaining design quality and velocity.

• Clear scope with meaningful ownership.
• Strong onboarding and overlap before team members roll off.
• High-impact work during an important transition window.
• Opportunity to work on complex product challenges with a collaborative, experienced team.

If you’re a seasoned designer who enjoys bringing clarity to complexity and delivering high-quality UX in fast-moving environments, we’d love to connect.