SPATE

Product Designer – Part-time, Contract

SPATE
Posted 10/21/2026part-timeRemote • United StatesJuniorMid-Level💰 $75 per hourWebsite
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Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in product design with a focus on data-heavy products, AI experiences, and design systems. Proficient in Figma and skilled in user research and feedback analysis to drive UX improvements.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Product Design ExperienceFigma ProficiencyAI Product ExplorationDesign System ContributionStrong Written Communication

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
React

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Shape Spate's core product dashboard, where brand teams explore trends, build reports, and work with an AI assistant
  • Help decide what to build and why, from initial discussion through launch
  • Collaborate with the frontend lead to select appropriate deliverables, including written proposals, user flows, prototypes, or Figma specifications
  • Identify user pain points through customer calls, feedback, and usage data
  • Frame problems, explore options, and propose product directions
  • Design AI experiences, including chats, reports, inline summaries, insight provenance, loading states, uncertainty, wrong answers, and AI-generated language
  • Own design-system principles and the Figma library while partnering with frontend engineers to align it with the React component library
  • Help define quality standards for AI answers and evaluate LLM features using user feedback
  • Learn the product and users, review feedback and usage data, and ship UX improvements
  • Design and ship a feature addressing a major user pain point within the first 90 days
  • Does not include writing production code, brand or marketing design, client reports, API design, or MCP server design

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 2+ years of product design experience with work shipped in a real product
  • Strong product opinions and ability to defend and revise ideas
  • Portfolio demonstrating problem framing, including at least one case study starting from a fuzzy problem with no spec
  • Experience with or strong interest in data-heavy products such as dashboards, analytics, or reporting tools
  • Experience contributing to a design system and understanding how components and patterns scale
  • Curiosity about AI products, ideally with hands-on exploration
  • Strong written communication
  • Experience working as a freelancer or contractor and managing time and deliverables
  • Fluency in Figma and use of AI tools in everyday workflow
  • Must be based in US Central Time or US Eastern Time
  • Availability for core collaboration hours of 9:00 AM–12:00 PM Eastern
  • Independent contractor status

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Flexible work arrangement
  • Fully remote work
  • Part-time schedule of about 20 hours per week
  • Few meetings and significant autonomy
  • Real say over the direction of work

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Hard Skills
Product DesignUser ResearchProblem FramingData AnalysisUX ImprovementPrototypingUser Flow DesignAI Experience DesignDashboard DesignAnalytics Tools
Soft Skills
Strong Product OpinionsTime ManagementCollaborationCuriosity
Tools & Technologies
FigmaAI Tools
Industry Keywords
Data-Heavy ProductsDashboardsAnalyticsReporting ToolsDesign System