Job leads — 2026-07-05
Filter: designer/PM · remote · part-time/fractional/contract · direct with company (no agencies/staffing) · no motion.
Honest read: thin day. Both primary boards were pure repeats — fractionaljobs.io’s live design/product roles (Mental Health Marketplace Product Lead, Carrot, AI Education Project PM, Parsley Growth PM) and every Go Fractional design + product listing are already in the seen log. The one fresh-looking Go Fractional hit — Gusto Fractional Product Systems Designer — is closed (filled ~1 month ago), so dropped. We Work Remotely and the UX Jobs Board are dominated by full-time roles mis-tagged “Contract,” plus agencies/staffing/onsite. web3 boards had only comms/security contract roles. Net: 1 real lead below — a part-time Design Engineer role that’s a bullseye on your design→code edge, flagged honestly as a stretch because the employer is a studio collective. Not padding the rest.
Worth a look (new)
Design Engineer (Part-Time) — garden3d · weworkremotely.com · Contract · Remote (Anywhere in the World) · $50–75k
- Title is a direct hit on your edge: design→code, not handoff. Part-time contract, worldwide-remote (EU-friendly), no motion. Caveat: garden3d is a network/collective of studios (Sanctuary Computer et al.), so it leans agency — verify whether this is in-house product work vs. client services, and confirm it’s still open (posted ~26 days ago).
- Angle: lead with a design-system + frontend-implementation case study (Samsung eShop / Sancta Domenica) — show you own the build, not just the Figma. Emphasize CSS/frontend fluency with AI tooling. https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/garden3d-design-engineer-part-time
Checked & skipped:
- Go Fractional – Gusto Fractional Product Systems Designer (web/iOS, Remote US) — appeared in search but closed/filled ~1 mo ago. Would’ve been a strong design-systems fit; dropped.
- fractionaljobs.io — all live design/product roles are seen (Mental Health Marketplace Product Lead, Carrot Content Designer, AI Education Project PM, Parsley Growth PM). Rest is Finance/Sales/Marketing/Eng/Ops/Legal → out of scope.
- Go Fractional – Design (16 live) — every role seen or fails filters: PaceMate / inquirED / Firstup / Bounce (all seen); Clio, KPMG, Luminos, OGeez, RateGain, Bodily, Stash, Ramp → graphic/creative-director/brand, not product; VSA Partners → agency; SD Solutions → staffing; JANSON → 3D industrial; Cambrick Yard → video editing.
- Go Fractional – Product — all seen or out of scope (Industrial Software CPO, Rural Events monetization, plus Sales/Finance/Eng/Ops leadership roles).
- We Work Remotely — Basis Strategy-Focused Product Designer (part-time contract, 20–30 hrs, remote, path-to-FT) is attractive on format but Basis is a product-design & strategy studio → agency, fails the direct-company filter. Growth Factory Venture Studio Product Designer → listing expired (redirects to WWR home). Everything else design-side is full-time (Jerry, Hospitable, BrowserStack, Lyncas) or agency.
- UX Jobs Board — “Contract” tags are misleading; the genuinely new adds are full-time (Judi Health, onX, LevelTen Energy, Modern Family Law, Cherry, Uplight), agencies/staffing (Maker Lab, Spike IT, Sand Cherry, Lattice Partners, Friends From The City, Libsys), or onsite (AlgaeCal, Purchasing Platform). Wordwall “Senior UX Designer” is full-time permanent despite the tag. Lab37, Cofertility, Samsara, Bounce, Blackbird, Lively, Oddin already seen.
- FerskTech Fractional PM (contract, remote) — must be based in Minnesota (you’re in Zagreb) + likely stale posting → dropped.
- web3 (CryptoJobsList / web3.career) — only comms + security contract roles (GSR, Binance, JPMorgan); no design/PM → skipped.
Sources: fractionaljobs.io, gofractional.com, weworkremotely.com, uiuxjobsboard.com, cryptojobslist.com.