Product Designer

Product Designer (Contract)
Location: Remote
Duration: 3 months (possible extension)
Compensation: $3,000-5,000 USD/month

About the Role

Our client is a stealth-mode HR-tech startup on a mission to revolutionize how people managers and employees interact with talent data. They build clean, intuitive interfaces that turn complex HR workflows, like performance reviews, skills development, and workforce planning into delightful experiences.

Role Overview

You will be the lead designer on two fronts:

1. Audit & Modernize the existing HR platform, delivering production-ready, high-fidelity mockups.
2. Design & Launch v1.0 of a new product module, collaborating with product managers and engineers.

Youll own end-to-end UX/UI across web and mobile in a scrappy, fast-paced startup environment.

Key Responsibilities

• UX Research
  • Plan and run user interviews, surveys, and usability tests with HR stakeholders and end users
  • Synthesize insights into clear, actionable recommendations
• Design & Prototyping
  • Craft wireframes, interactive prototypes, and pixel-perfect mockups in Figma (or equivalent) for desktop and mobile
  • Iterate designs based on stakeholder and user feedback
• Design System
  • Create and maintain a scalable component library, style guide, and pattern library tailored for HR workflows
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Partner with engineers to ensure designs are implemented faithfully
  • Present design rationale, trade-offs, and roadmaps to Product and Engineering teams
  • Be flexible to hop on early-morning or evening calls with our India-based team

Must-Have Qualifications

• 3+ years of product design experience in HR-tech, B2B SaaS, or other data-driven applications
• Proven track record of auditing and modernizing existing products and designing new modules end-to-end
• Strong portfolio that clearly shows research ideation prototyping final UI delivery
• Expert-level proficiency in Figma, Sketch, or similar tools
• Solid grounding in interaction design principles, information architecture, and usability best practices
• Excellent communicator with the ability to articulate design decisions and trade-offs

Nice-to-Have

• Experience designing people-analytics or talent-management dashboards
• Prior work establishing or scaling a design system
• Early-stage startup mindset, comfortable moving fast with limited info

Contract Details

Start Date: Flexible (ideally within 24 weeks of offer)
Hours: 3040 hours/week (flexible schedule)
Reporting To: Head of Product