Senior Product Designer / UX (Contract)

The Role:

We’re looking for a product designer with an exceptional craft bar to help shape a complex software product.
The hard part of this role isn’t handling complexity — it’s making complexity disappear. We want someone who can take a genuinely thorny problem space and ship something that feels obvious, fast, and well-made. Think the way a Ramp, Linear, or Attio treats an equally complicated domain.
This is a product design role, not a traditional enterprise UX role. If your instinct is to start with a requirements doc and a stakeholder matrix, this isn’t the fit.

Key Responsibilities:

• Help shape product direction alongside product and engineering — not wait to be handed specs
• Prototype fast and often; put something in front of people in days, not sprints
• Design core surfaces end to end, with real interaction depth — empty states, loading, errors, keyboard behavior, motion
• Bring a strong point of view on craft and hold the quality bar
• Establish the visual and systemic foundation the product grows on
• Operate with ambiguity: figure out what’s needed, then go build it

Required Skills:

• Craft and taste, first. Your portfolio should make us want to use the thing. We’re looking for evidence you’ve made something complicated feel simple — clear hierarchy, considered interaction detail, restraint. Show us the polish.
• Product design instincts. You’ve shaped direction, not just executed tickets.
• Startup pace. You’ve worked somewhere small and fast, where the answer wasn’t known in advance and you figured it out by building.
• Depth on complex interfaces. Data-dense views, filtering, multi-step flows, role-based experiences — ideally in a product where users were demanding and the UI still felt great.
• Expert Figma, high-fidelity prototyping, and the ability to defend design decisions to non-designers.

Nice to have:

• Front-end fluency or coded prototyping
• Design systems built for scale
• A track record at a venture-backed product company

What We’re Not Optimizing For

• We’d rather get the caliber and type of designer right than match industry background.
  • Domain or industry experience is not required
  • Years of experience is not a filter — a five-year designer with an outstanding portfolio beats a fifteen-year designer with a process deck
  • Deep enterprise or Fortune 500 UX tenure is not an advantage, and can be a liability if it came with heavy process and a low visual bar

Employment type:

• Contract
• Fully remote in the USA

*Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time