Your roadmap is full. Your design seat is empty
No product designer and a roadmap that won't wait? Work directly with a senior product designer, from decisions to shipped code, without a full-time hire.
The roadmap keeps growing, engineers are ready to build, and nobody owns how the product should work. So decisions get made in tickets, screens get designed in code, and the product slowly drifts.
Hiring a senior product designer takes time, and the roadmap won’t wait for it.
When a fractional product designer makes sense
- You need senior judgment now, not at the end of a hiring process.
- You’re not sure yet what a full-time design role should look like.
- Your team can build, but needs someone to decide what’s worth building and how it should work.
An example: stepping into an empty seat at Blinkist
At Blinkist I covered for the Director of Design, then led product design with 5 direct reports. In that role I shipped a fast MVP of AI-powered learning pathways for enterprise customers.
The beta launched with 12 external customers. We pivoted toward user-curated pathways, where AI suggests but the human decides. Two new long-term contracts were signed shortly after launch.
Before that, I joined TIER as the second designer at a Berlin hyper-growth startup, and went on to build and lead a team of 5 designers.
What working together looks like
- You work with me directly. No account managers, and no senior designer who disappears after kickoff.
- From product decisions to shipped code. I design and build, where it makes sense. I ship in your stack; scope says how far.
- Clear terms. A fixed price per defined result, or monthly with a 3-month minimum.
- CET hours, async by default. Remote teams in other time zones work fine.
Questions founders ask
Is this a full-time role?
No. You get a senior product designer for a defined result or a monthly partnership, without a full-time hire.
Who does the work?
I do. If someone else joins, you’ll know before they do.