Sr. Product Designer - Contract

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Sr. Product Designer - Contract based in United States.

This is an opportunity for an experienced product designer to lead end-to-end design within a core product area at a fast-growing technology company.

You’ll shape digital experiences from early discovery and problem framing through polished, developer-ready execution.

The role combines deep user empathy, strong UX thinking, and a high standard for visual and interaction design.

You’ll work closely with product managers, engineers, and cross-functional partners to solve meaningful customer problems.

You’ll also contribute to scalable design systems, reusable patterns, accessibility, and overall product quality.

The environment values curiosity, autonomy, thoughtful collaboration, and designers who can balance craft with shipping.

As a remote contract role, it offers the opportunity to make a direct impact while working alongside an ambitious product and design organization.

Accountabilities

• Own end-to-end product design: Lead experiences from discovery, problem definition, and low-fidelity exploration through detailed, developer-ready designs.
• Champion user needs: Stay closely connected to customers through research, interviews, usability testing, and collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Translate insights into solutions: Turn user and business insights into intuitive, accessible, polished experiences that address core needs, edge cases, and multiple product states.
• Partner cross-functionally: Work closely with product managers and engineers to frame problems, evaluate tradeoffs, and identify effective solutions.
• Prototype and validate: Quickly develop prototypes at the appropriate level of fidelity and test concepts to refine experiences before implementation.
• Strengthen the design system: Contribute reusable, accessible, and well-documented components and patterns that improve consistency across the product.
• Elevate design quality: Share work early and often, actively participate in design critiques, incorporate feedback, and help raise the quality of the broader design organization.
• Balance craft and execution: Apply strong visual and interaction design judgment while knowing when additional refinement will meaningfully improve the customer experience and when it is time to ship.

Requirements

• 5+ years of product design experience, with a proven record of designing and shipping digital products in cross-functional environments.
• Strong portfolio: Demonstrated user-centered problem solving, sophisticated UX thinking, and high-quality visual and interaction design.
• Advanced Figma proficiency: Comfortable working with component libraries, prototyping workflows, design tokens, and modern design-system practices.
• End-to-end product expertise: Experience taking ambiguous problems through discovery, ideation, validation, iteration, and final implementation.
• Strong communication: Ability to clearly explain design decisions, user needs, priorities, and tradeoffs to product, engineering, and other stakeholders.
• User empathy and curiosity: Genuine interest in understanding how people think and work, identifying friction, and improving real-world outcomes through design.
• High design judgment: A strong eye for usability, interaction, visual quality, accessibility, and consistency, combined with the ability to prioritize effectively.
• Collaborative mindset: Comfortable giving and receiving feedback, participating in critiques, and partnering closely with multidisciplinary teams.
• Independent execution: Able to take ownership of a defined product area, manage priorities, and deliver high-quality work with limited oversight.
• Growth orientation: Motivated to expand influence across design craft, product thinking, and cross-functional collaboration in a fast-moving environment.

Benefits

• Competitive contract opportunity with a senior-level scope and the ability to own meaningful product experiences.
• Remote work within the United States.
• Opportunity to contribute to an AI-focused growth platform serving a large and established professional customer base.
• Work alongside experienced product, engineering, and design professionals in a collaborative environment.
• Strong emphasis on user-centered design, usability, accessibility, and design quality.
• Opportunities to influence design systems, product practices, and overall customer experience.
• Exposure to a rapidly evolving real estate technology and AI market.
• An environment that values curiosity, autonomy, collaboration, simplicity, and continuous improvement.
• Opportunity to make a visible impact on products used by thousands of real estate professionals and businesses.