Principal Product Designer. Brand and Experience (Contract, Hands-On) (Marketplace)

Location: Bellevue, Washington, United States

Compensation: $140–$165/hour for 1099 independent contractors or $100–$130/hour for W-2 contract employees

Company

A local marketplace platform connecting people and businesses with deals, secondhand goods, services, rentals, jobs, and other opportunities.

What you will do

• Translate brand strategy into practical product-experience principles and reusable design artifacts.
• Identify opportunities to improve comprehension, local relevance, trust, activation, and return behavior.
• Design strategically important mobile experiences in Figma from concept through engineering-ready handoff.
• Create hypotheses, prototypes, and experiments connecting design decisions to user and business outcomes.
• Build reusable interaction, visual, and content patterns for the product design system.
• Partner with Product, Marketing, Brand, UX, and Engineering to validate, ship, and measure improvements.

Requirements

• Significant experience designing consumer mobile products at scale.
• Portfolio demonstrating strong interaction design and sophisticated visual judgment.
• Experience translating brand or product strategy into an end-to-end digital experience.
• Experience with discovery, marketplace, commerce, social, community, or local products.
• Fluency in experimentation, behavioral metrics, qualitative research, and product design systems.
• Principal Designer, Design Director, Head of Product Design, or equivalent hands-on leadership experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on individual-contributor contract engagement with direct ownership of core design deliverables.
• Opportunity to improve a large local marketplace and establish durable product design practices.
• Contract role is not eligible for health benefits, paid time off, retirement contributions, bonus, commission, or equity.
• Available engagement structures include 1099 independent contractor and W-2 contract employee arrangements.