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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-e6e73f98-cdad-4b29-bfb5-a5e746f42f5b"
apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/7726d574-3d9e-46f9-ae79-b6478a133de1"
workplace: onsite
location: "San Francisco"
employment_type: full-time
seniority: mid
role: design
region: united-states
skills: ["figma"]
date_posted: 2026-09-15T17:12:48.690Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-15T17:50:31.424Z
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# Freelance Product Designer (Fractional)

**Clera** · San Francisco

Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/7726d574-3d9e-46f9-ae79-b6478a133de1

## About Clera

Stop applying to startups. Start getting introduced. Clera connects you directly with hiring managers at the companies you want to work for.

## About the role

##### About the Role

This is a fractional product design role at an early-stage AI-powered talent marketplace, working directly with the founding team and engineering to shape the full design surface of a product that changes how people find jobs. You will be the design voice in the room, with real ownership and no layers of approval slowing you down.

##### What You'll Do

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

- Turn ambiguous problems into clean, intuitive end-to-end flows while maintaining a high bar for craft.

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

- Run lightweight user research by conducting interviews, watching sessions, and identifying friction points with both candidates and companies.

- Partner directly with founders and engineering to ship product quickly and iteratively.

- Contribute to product direction beyond pixels, offering input on strategy and priorities alongside the founding team.

##### 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 work.

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

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

- Comfortable conducting lightweight user research and translating findings into product decisions.

- Able to work autonomously with minimal direction in an async, distributed team.

- Currently active in product design work, not returning after a long gap.

- Nice to have: experience designing marketplaces, platforms, or multi-sided networks.

- Nice to have: experience designing AI-powered products or conversational interfaces.

- Nice to have: background in recruiting, HR tech, or talent marketplace products.

##### Compensation & Benefits

Competitive compensation in the range of **$100,000 to $120,000 USD annually**, structured as a fractional freelance or contractor engagement. Visa sponsorship is not available.

##### Location

Fully remote, open to candidates worldwide.

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