Freelance Senior Product Designer (Fractional)

Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote · Worldwide
Experience
Senior · 5+ years

Job description

A fractional product designer role at Clera, working with the founding and engineering teams to design an AI-powered recruiting product. The designer will shape candidate journeys, company dashboards, and AI interactions.

At a glance

Work mode
Remote · Worldwide
Pay
USD 100,000 – 120,000 / year

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

Nice to have

  • Experience with marketplaces or platforms
  • Work on AI-powered products, conversational interfaces, recruiting, HR technology, or talent marketplaces

Benefits

  • Base compensation is $100,000 to $120,000 annually
  • Flexible fractional arrangement

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About Clera

Building an AI-powered recruiting product that helps candidates and companies find strong matches.

Key facts

  • Visa sponsorship is not available