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title: "Freelance Product Designer (Fractional)"
company: "Clera"
company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/clera"
url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/clera-freelance-product-designer-fractional-dc51df3a-c6a3-45e6-878e-46f1a985380a"
apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/58e9588c-9a0b-4924-91aa-8351c01f43a2"
workplace: onsite
location: "San Francisco"
employment_type: full-time
seniority: mid
role: design
region: united-states
date_posted: 2026-09-22T17:13:31.026Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-22T17:22:44.830Z
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# Freelance Product Designer (Fractional)

**Clera** · San Francisco

Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/58e9588c-9a0b-4924-91aa-8351c01f43a2

## About Clera

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## About the role

##### About the Role

This is a fractional, fully remote Product Designer role at an early-stage AI-powered talent marketplace startup. You will serve as the design voice working directly alongside the founding team and engineering, shaping everything from candidate-facing AI conversations to hiring manager dashboards. The work matters because great design here directly affects how people find their next career opportunity.

##### What You'll Do

- Own the entire design surface, including product UI, candidate-facing experiences, company dashboards, and the AI interaction layer.

- Turn ambiguous product problems into clean, intuitive flows and ship real product quickly with minimal layers.

- Build and evolve the design system from the ground up as the product scales.

- Run lightweight user research by conducting candidate and company interviews, observing sessions, and identifying points of friction.

- Contribute to product direction alongside the founding team, going beyond execution to influence strategy.

##### What We're Looking For

- 5+ years designing digital products, with meaningful time at a startup as the primary or sole designer.

- Deep fluency in Figma for product design and design system work.

- A portfolio that demonstrates taste, clarity, and thoughtfulness through shipped, current product design work.

- Experience designing end-to-end user flows and interaction models for multi-stakeholder products.

- Experience building and evolving design systems from scratch or at an early stage.

- Proven ability to conduct lightweight user research including interviews and session observation.

- Comfortable working autonomously with minimal direction and communicating async across a distributed team.

- Experience designing for marketplaces, platforms, or multi-sided networks is a strong plus.

- Experience designing AI-powered products or conversational interfaces is a strong plus.

- Background in recruiting, HR tech, or talent marketplace products is a bonus.

##### Compensation & Benefits

Compensation is **$100,000 to $120,000 USD annually** on a fractional freelance or contractor basis. Visa sponsorship is not available.

##### Location

Fully remote, open to candidates worldwide.

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