Job leads — 10 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 257), fractionaljobs.io (full live list), We Work Remotely (Design + Contract categories), web3.career (Design), plus WebSearch passes across Wellfound / YC / Toptal / design-engineer terms. 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: the CORE dry spell continues — 0 new CORE leads today. The fractional/contract design market is still thin and heavily recycled: Go Fractional’s Design board is dominated by graphic / creative-director / agency / onsite roles, and its Product board is CPO/onsite/FT-leaning. Two “new-looking” hits both failed on inspection: Nettle (Fractional Principal PM on fractionaljobs) is marked Closed — already filled — and also data-infra-heavy, not a design/PM-bridge fit; and a Gusto “Fractional Product Systems Designer” URL surfaced in search but is not in the 14 live Go Fractional design listings and its page returns empty → treat as expired. One genuinely new contract design role appeared on WWR (Basis — Strategy-Focused Product Designer, part-time) but Basis is a design & strategy studio (agency-type), so it fails the direct-company filter → noted, not shortlisted. Web3 design is the one active lane, but 100% full-time salaried — including a new design-systems role at Bitpanda that’s a real edge for foogy (flagged under Stretch).

CORE — new leads

None new today. Re-flagging the 3 best still-open CORE roles (all confirmed live on today’s fetch):

• 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.
• 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.

Stretch (full-time) — notable

Web3 / fintech design keeps producing the strongest signal — all full-time, but a real edge given foogy’s crypto background (he has a Solana Foundation pitch on file). Design-systems roles especially map to his strengths.

• Senior Design System Designer — Bitpanda · Remote, ~$96–110k · crypto/fintech; owns the design system end-to-end — direct hit on foogy’s design-systems strength. https://web3.career/senior-design-system-designer-bitpanda/147831
• Senior Product Designer (Websites) — Bitpanda · Remote, ~$96–110k · web/marketing-surface product design at a crypto exchange; pairs with the design→code edge. https://web3.career/senior-product-designer-websites-bitpanda/147829
• Principal Product Designer (Sr UI / design systems) — Figure · Remote/hybrid, ~$105–132k · blockchain fintech unicorn, design-system-heavy UI role. https://web3.career/principal-product-designer-figure/58473
• Senior Product Designer, Growth Onboarding — Kraken · Remote (US), ~$110–220k · crypto exchange, growth-focused product design. https://web3.career/senior-product-designer-growth-onboarding-kraken/148327

Checked & skipped (why):

• Go Fractional – Design (14 live) — no new CORE. PaceMate + inquirED re-flagged above (still live). Bounce (UX/Product Researcher), Firstup (Sr Mobile UX), all seen. Clio / KPMG NZ / Luminos / OGeez / RateGain / Bodily → graphic / creative-director / brand, not product. VSA Partners → agency (Director UX, freelance). SD Solutions → staffing (PL/GE). JANSON → 3D industrial. Cambrick Yard → YouTube video editing.
• Go Fractional – Product (13 live) — no new CORE. CPO (DE), Rural Events monetization, AI Education Project, Parsley (Growth PM), FE fundinfo, Fresh Tri, StarCompliance (all seen). New this week but out of scope: Beacon Software (onsite NYC PM), Amazon (onsite France), DemandPDX (Salesforce BA), dunnhumby (onsite London), MonetizeMore (Singapore FT), Clarivate (Munich hybrid FT).
• Go Fractional – all-jobs feed (257) — newest are Field CTO, Payroll/Ops Director, Outbound Sales Builder, Fractional CTO ×2, Growth Marketer, webAI UX Writer (seen, out of core). No new design/product-design/PM.
• fractionaljobs.io (full live list) — only Design/Product role is A Mental Health Marketplace — Product Lead (re-flagged). Nettle — Fractional Principal PM = CLOSED (filled) + data-infra fit, skip. Everything else live is Eng/Finance/Marketing/Sales/ Ops/People/Legal (CTOs, CFOs, controllers, growth/marketing leads, HR).
• We Work Remotely – Design + Contract — Contract category has NO design/product except already-seen garden3d Design Engineer (Part-Time); rest is data-entry / sales / writing / AI-training / dev. Design category new hits: Basis Strategy-Focused Product Designer (part-time contract, but a design studio → agency, skip), Sanctuary Computer (agency, 40hr FT-contract), XXIX (studio, senior/director), Growth Factory (venture studio, FT-path) — all fail direct-company/agency filter. A.Team = evergreen talent-network signup, skip.
• web3.career (Design, 3,077) — all full-time salaried: Bitpanda ×5 (incl. new Design System Designer + Websites, flagged as stretch), Figure (Principal/Sr UI — stretch), Kraken ×4 (Sr/Staff Product Designer growth — one stretch), Falconx/Alchemy/Crypto.com/Sorare (brand/graphic — skip), Render Foundation (LA onsite), Metana (bootcamp ad, skip). No direct-company part-time/contract product-design role.

Sources: gofractional.com, fractionaljobs.io, weworkremotely.com, web3.career.