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

Location: California, United States

Compensation: $140–$165/hour for 1099 independent contractors; $100–$130/hour for W-2 contract employees. The role is fractional and not benefits-eligible.

Company

hirify.global operates a local marketplace that helps people buy, sell, and connect through local goods, services, rentals, jobs, and other opportunities.

What you will do

• Translate hirify.global’s brand strategy into product-experience principles, frameworks, and practical design artifacts.
• Identify high-value opportunities to make the marketplace more comprehensible, locally relevant, trustworthy, and distinctive.
• Design strategically important mobile experiences in Figma from concept through engineering-ready handoff.
• Create prototypes and testable hypotheses connecting design decisions to user and business outcomes.
• Partner with Product, Marketing, Brand, UX, and Engineering to prototype, validate, ship, and measure improvements.
• Build reusable interaction, visual, and content patterns for the product design system.

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 end-to-end digital experiences.
• Experience with discovery, marketplace, commerce, social, community, or local products.
• Fluency in experimentation, behavioral metrics, qualitative research, and product design systems.
• Experience as a Principal Designer, Design Director, Head of Product Design, or equivalent hands-on design leader.

Nice to have

• Experience working within established products with legacy behavior, technical constraints, and closely monitored performance metrics.
• Executive communication skills for influencing senior Product and business leaders.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on individual-contributor role with direct ownership of core design deliverables.
• Fractional contract engagement focused on creating measurable product value.
• Opportunity to improve product experiences and leave behind reusable design principles and systems.
• No health benefits, paid time off, retirement contributions, bonus, commission, or equity.