UI/UX Designer– Flexible Title & Commitment

We're hiring a **UI/UX Designer** to own user experience and interface design for a product with a **massive total addressable market** — the flows and patterns you create will shape how hundreds of thousands of users interact with our platform. ### **Summary** **Flexible Title:** Can be tailored to reflect your skills & experience. **Flexible Time:** Can do full-time, part-time, side-gig (off-hours), or fractional (contract). **Flexible Commitment:** Can do short-term, long-term, or intermittent. **Why so flexible?** We're a FUNDED startup racing to launch end of Q2 2026. That gives us just 3 months to stack features while raising additional working capital. Feel free to jump in, help us ship, then bounce >> or stick around. A successful launch translates into lots of permanent jobs for those who want them. We're also interested in long-term "side gig" relationships, if that's what you're into — in our experience, a few expert hours often beat full-time learning-curve hours. ### **About Us** We're a credible, funded, remote-first startup led by a serial technical founder, backed by a 20-person team. The product is live in private alpha. Learn more at **list-lab.org**. We're currently operating in stealth under an existing brand and will gradually evolve into a new public-facing identity as we validate the right direction. ### **About The Role** You own how the product feels to use — user journeys, interaction patterns, responsive layouts, and component-level detail for a complex, multi-audience platform. You'll work within a visual brand system set by our Visual Design Director, but how that system comes to life inside the product is yours. Our devs build rapidly in **Cursor** with AI — you'll work alongside them, prototyping directly in that environment and defining the patterns and guardrails that keep AI-assisted output on-brand and usable. You bridge design and engineering in a workflow where the line between the two is intentionally blurred. ### **Compensation** Up to **$150,000** max total engagement in Tier 1 cities; cash and equity components to be negotiated (amount reflects combined cash and equity components). Rate or retainer based on scope and availability. We're open to equity components for the right long-term fractional fit. ### **What Success Looks Like in 30 Days** - Product experience audited — UX gaps, friction points, and quick wins identified and prioritized. - Meaningful UI/UX improvements shipped — design artifacts devs are building from in the current sprint cycle, with prototyping happening directly alongside engineering in Cursor. - Reusable Figma components and patterns in place, aligned to the visual brand system, with design tokens and guardrails documented for AI-assisted dev workflows. - Working rhythm established with the Visual Design Director and engineering for review, handoff, and iteration. - Proactively surfacing UX trade-offs and bringing recommendations — not waiting for direction on every screen. ### **What You'll Do** - **Design product UI/UX end-to-end** — take features from concept through wireframes, high-fidelity screens, and developer-ready specs; own the full path from user need to shipped product. - **Build the product design system** — create and document reusable Figma components and patterns so the product scales visually and devs can produce on-brand work without you in every loop. - **Prototype and ship alongside engineers in Cursor** — work directly in AI-assisted dev environments to create and refine prototypes; define design tokens, patterns, and guardrails so AI-generated output stays on-brand and usable without manual redlining. - **Surface and solve UX problems** — propose improvements grounded in user needs and business goals, not just visual polish; use available data and feedback to validate decisions. - **Lead with AI across your workflow** — use AI tools for exploration, prototyping, asset generation, and iteration as your primary engine. You should already be…