Job leads — 9 Jul 2026
Filter: designer/PM · remote · part-time/fractional/contract · direct with company (no agencies/staffing) · no motion.
Market pulse
Boards checked: Go Fractional (Design 14 live / Product 13 live / all-jobs feed), fractionaljobs.io, We Work Remotely (Design + Contract), UX Jobs Board (Freelance), web3.career (Design/Remote), plus WebSearch passes on Wellfound/Contra/CryptoJobsList. Claude in Chrome was NOT connected today, so JS-only boards (Wellfound, Contra, Otta/WTTJ, Toptal) couldn’t be read directly — coverage there is via search only, which understates them. Server-rendered boards were read in full.
Trend: still the same dry spell for the CORE filter — the fractional/contract design market is thin and mostly recycled. 0 new CORE leads today. Design boards are dominated by agency/staffing/graphic/ creative-director/onsite roles; web3 design is plentiful but all full-time salaried. One genuinely new contract listing appeared (webAI UX Writer), but it’s UX writing, not product/UX-UI design or PM — noted, not shortlisted. Per protocol, re-flagging the best still-open CORE roles below so there’s always something live.
CORE — new leads
None new today. Re-flagging the 3 best still-open CORE roles (confirmed live on today’s fetch):
- Product Lead — A Mental Health Marketplace · fractional PM, ~10 hrs, $5K/mo, Remote (USA/Canada) · https://www.fractionaljobs.io/jobs/product-lead-at-a-mental-health-marketplace · Marketplace + PM = squarely foogy’s bridge role. Angle: lead on lean team, discovery→ship; marketplace background.
- Freelance Senior SaaS Web Designer — PaceMate · freelance, 10–30 hrs, $115–165/hr, Remote · https://www.gofractional.com/job/pacemate-freelance-senior-saas-web-designer-fully-remote · SaaS web design, direct-with-company, hourly contract. Angle: full-scope design + front-end implementation (design→code).
- Fractional UX/UI Designer — inquirED · fractional, 10–30 hrs, $90–135/hr, Remote (US) · https://www.gofractional.com/job/inquired-ux-ui-design-contractor · Direct ed-tech company, clean UX/UI fractional scope. Angle: end-to-end UX/UI + design systems.
Stretch (full-time) — notable
Web3 design is the strongest signal again this week — all full-time, but a real edge for foogy (crypto background; he already has a Solana Foundation pitch on file). A few worth knowing:
- Principal Product Designer — Bitpanda · Remote, ~$117–165k · fintech/crypto, owns website/experience design, design-systems-heavy. https://web3.career/principal-product-designer-bitpanda/150682
- Senior Product Designer — Solana Foundation · Remote, ~$105–150k · crypto, direct fit for the Solana pitch foogy drafted. https://web3.career/senior-product-designer-solanafoundation/150560
- Product Designer (Mid–Senior) — Jupiter · Remote, ~$105–150k · Solana DEX; product design in DeFi. https://web3.career/product-designer-mid-senior-jupiter/149418
- Staff Product Designer — Alpaca · Remote · trading/fintech infra, product-design-led. https://web3.career/staff-product-designer-alpaca/149643
Checked & skipped (why):
- Go Fractional – Design (14 live) — all seen or fail: Bounce (UX/Product Researcher), Firstup (Sr Mobile UX), PaceMate, inquirED (seen; PaceMate + inquirED re-flagged above); Clio / KPMG NZ / Luminos / OGeez / RateGain / Bodily → graphic / creative-director / brand, not product; VSA Partners → agency; SD Solutions → staffing (PL/GE); JANSON → 3D industrial; Cambrick Yard → YouTube video editing.
- Go Fractional – Product (13 live) — all seen or fail: Industrial Software CPO, Rural Events monetization, AI Education Project, Parsley (Growth PM), FE fundinfo, Fresh Tri, StarCompliance (all seen); Beacon (onsite NYC), Amazon (onsite France), dunnhumby (onsite London), DemandPDX (Salesforce BA), MonetizeMore (Singapore ~FT), Clarivate (Munich hybrid ~FT).
- Go Fractional – all-jobs feed — newest (≈21h): webAI UX Writer (Remote, Contract-to-Hire, $80–125/hr, 4-mo) = UX writing, out of core scope → noted, not shortlisted; Producer/Director, Field CTO, Recruiting Sourcer → out of scope.
- fractionaljobs.io — only live Design/Product role is A Mental Health Marketplace — Product Lead (re-flagged). Everything else live is Eng/Finance/Marketing/Sales/Ops/People/Legal.
- We Work Remotely – Design + Contract — Design category all full-time except already-seen garden3d Design Engineer (Part-Time); notable FT: Assemble Lead Product Designer, Hospitable Staff UI/UX (seen). Contract category has no design/product — data-entry/sales/writing/dev only. A.Team = evergreen talent-network signup ad, skip.
- UX Jobs Board (Freelance) — newest adds all fail: Maker Lab (agency, Bengaluru onsite), Wordwall (UK remote, FT despite “Contract” tag), Libsys (Foster City onsite), AlgaeCal (Vancouver onsite), Friends From The City (agency + research, $187k, seen), Purchasing Platform (Chicago onsite), Spike IT (staffing, seen). Blink/Blink UX = agency; Lattice Partners / Rockstar = recruiting. Everything else already seen.
- web3.career (Design/Remote, 1,515) — all full-time salaried senior: Bitpanda ×4 (hybrid FT — Principal re-flagged as stretch), Blockchain ×2, Solana Foundation, Tonkeeper, Tether (UX research), Alpaca, Jupiter (mid-senior + freelance visual seen), Bitfinex; Taxbit = brand motion, skip. No direct-company part-time/contract product-design role.
Sources: gofractional.com, fractionaljobs.io, weworkremotely.com, uiuxjobsboard.com, web3.career.