Fractional Founding Designer
About the Role
This is a fractional founding design role (10-20 hours per week) at an early-stage AI recruiting platform in the HR tech space. You would be the first designer, owning the look, feel, and quality standards of the product from the ground up rather than executing tickets handed down from others.
What You'll Do
Define and establish the visual and interaction design language for the product.
Build and maintain a design system and documentation that engineers and future designers can build against.
Create high-fidelity mockups and prototypes for key product surfaces.
Collaborate directly with engineering and product to implement designs and navigate technical constraints.
Conduct user research, usability testing, and gather qualitative feedback to continuously iterate on designs.
Make product strategy and design decisions confidently with limited information, refining based on real user input.
Support design-to-code handoff, with awareness of frontend implementation realities.
What We're Looking For
3 or more years of experience as a product de
