Freelance Senior Product Designer (Fractional)
At a glance
Senior Product Design role at Clera. Remote · full-time.
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What you'll do
- Design complete experiences for candidate journeys, company dashboards and AI interactions
- Turn unclear product problems into user flows and interaction patterns people can follow
- Create and refine the product’s design system from its early stages
- Interview users and observe sessions to find friction, then improve the experience
- Help shape product direction and coordinate design work with engineering asynchronously
What you bring
- At least five years of digital product design, including serving as a startup’s main or only designer
- A portfolio showing launched web app products, strong visual craft and clear problem-solving
- Strong Figma skills across product design and design systems
- You’ve designed full user journeys for products serving multiple audiences and built an early-stage design system
Who this fits
This fractional role suits a senior designer comfortable working independently with limited direction and collaborating with distributed teams. It is remote worldwide, and visa sponsorship is unavailable.
From the employer
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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