Product Designer – Part-time, Contract

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Shape Spate's primary product dashboard, enabling brand teams to analyze trends, generate reports, and engage with an AI assistant.

• Contribute to decision-making on product development from initial discussions to launch.

• Collaborate with the frontend lead to determine suitable deliverables, including written proposals, user flows, prototypes, or Figma specifications.

• Identify user pain points through customer interactions, feedback, and usage analytics.

• Frame challenges, explore potential solutions, and suggest product directions.

• Design AI experiences, including chats, reports, inline summaries, insight provenance, loading states, uncertainty, incorrect answers, and AI-generated text.

• Take ownership of design-system principles and the Figma library, working alongside frontend engineers to ensure alignment with the React component library.

• Assist in defining quality standards for AI responses and assess LLM features through user feedback.

• Familiarize yourself with the product and user base, review feedback and usage data, and implement UX enhancements.

• Design and deploy a feature that addresses a significant user pain point within the first 90 days.

• Note that the role does not involve writing production code, brand or marketing design, client reports, API design, or MCP server design.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 2 years of product design experience with tangible work delivered in a real product context.

• Strong product opinions with the capability to advocate for and refine ideas.

• A portfolio showcasing problem framing, including at least one case study that begins with an ambiguous problem and lacks a specification.

• Experience with, or a keen interest in, data-rich products such as dashboards, analytics, or reporting tools.

• Background in contributing to a design system and an understanding of how components and patterns can scale.

• A curiosity for AI products, ideally with practical exploration experience.

• Excellent written communication skills.

• Experience working as a freelancer or contractor, with the ability to manage time and deliverables effectively.

• Proficiency in Figma and the use of AI tools in daily workflows.

• Must reside in US Central Time or US Eastern Time.

• Availability for core collaboration hours from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM Eastern.

• Independent contractor status is required.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible work arrangement.

• Fully remote work opportunity.

• Part-time schedule of approximately 20 hours per week.

• Minimal meetings and considerable autonomy.

• Genuine influence over the direction of work.