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Job leads — 17 Jul 2026

Market pulse

Chrome half-connected, then dropped — the tab context came back but every navigate returned “not connected,” so the JS-only boards (Wellfound, Contra, LinkedIn listings, Toptal) couldn’t be read directly today. Fell back to web_fetch + WebSearch, which reads the server-rendered boards cleanly. Boards actually read this run: Go Fractional (all-jobs, design, product, remote — read in full), fractionaljobs.io (live board + individual listings), web3.career (design+remote), plus WebSearch passes across uiuxjobsboard, Lenny’s, WeWorkRemotely, YC, and “design engineer” terms. Reminder from prior runs: Wellfound/Contra are login-gated, WTTJ/Otta killed its public board, Toptal is a closed network — so those stay dark without Chrome.

Thin-but-honest day: ~1 genuinely new CORE (Elemental — with a caveat), 1 near-miss (agency), 0 new Stretch. Go Fractional’s design shelf is unchanged (the one fresh role, the anonymized “Fractional Senior Product Designer, Staff Level,” is still live but already logged 07-16; the Gusto Product Systems Designer that surfaced in search is closed). web3.career is fully deduped — same Bitpanda/Solana/Blockchain/Tonkeeper/Alpaca/Jupiter/Bitfinex set as all last week. fractionaljobs.io added two July-13 design posts, but both show a “Role is Closed” flag on FJ — they’re syndicated (Elemental from Dribbble, Cro Metrics from LinkedIn), so the original posts may still be open; treat with caution.

CORE — new leads

Ranked by fit.

  1. Product Designer (Fractional / Contract) — Elemental (The Loophole) · contract, hourly, Remote (EU timezones), 10–20 hrs/wk · https://www.fractionaljobs.io/jobs/product-designer-at-elemental · apply direct (Dribbble): https://dribbble.com/jobs/308327-Product-Designer-Freelance-Contract The best-fit role in a while on paper: bootstrapped, profitable edtech (Ellen Cassidy’s LSAT “Loophole” method → Loophole Online subscription app, hundreds of paying users, launching in weeks). They want a designer who works within an existing design system and extends it, turns “concepts into buildable screens in days, not weeks,” partners directly with founders + engineers, and is explicitly “AI-native — actively uses AI tools to move faster and ship more.” That’s foogy’s design-systems + design→code + AI-leverage edge almost line-for-line, and EU timezone is the requirement, not a barrier (Zagreb overlaps perfectly). Angle: lead with “I own the system and ship the front-end with AI, so you get shipped screens each week, not handoffs.” Caveat: fractionaljobs.io marks this “closed” — but it’s syndicated from Dribbble, so check the Dribbble link directly before assuming it’s gone; if live, this is the one to move on today.

CORE — near-misses (new but filtered)

  • UX/UI Designer — Cro Metrics · fractional contract, Remote (USA, excl. CA/WA/OR/NY/NJ/AK/HI) · https://www.fractionaljobs.io/jobs/ux-ui-designer-at-cro-metrics · Skip per filters: Cro Metrics is a growth-marketing agency (industry field literally reads “Marketing Agency”) — the work is CRO/experiment production across their clients’ brands, which is exactly the agency/client-services pattern the hard filter excludes. Well-written and AI-forward, and it does reward design→code (HTML/CSS, WCAG), but it’s agency execution work, not direct product ownership. Also shows “closed” on FJ. Logged so it isn’t re-surfaced as new.

CORE — best still-open (re-flag)

Nothing new cleared cleanly today, so the strongest recent still-open roles:

  • Fractional Senior Product Designer (Staff Level) — via Go Fractional · fractional, Remote (US/MN company), 5–20 hrs · $75–155/hr · https://www.gofractional.com/job/fractional-senior-product-designer-staff-level-cmqympo4 Confirmed still live on the board today. Clean hit on every hard filter; staff-level fractional = they want senior judgment a few hours/week. Angle: own the design system + design→code speed as the reason they don’t need a full-timer. (seen 07-16)
  • Product Designer (Part-Time 1099 Contract) — Parsley Health · part-time contract, Remote (US) · $75–200/hr · https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/parsleyhealth/jobs/7712555003 Direct-with-company on Greenhouse; design partner to the founding team, codifying a design POV into systems/guardrails for AI-assisted engineers. Near-bullseye for the design→code + AI edge. (seen 07-16 — confirm still open)
  • UX/Product Design Lead — Bringg · part-time (~92 hrs/mo), contract, Remote (Anywhere) · https://uiuxjobsboard.com/job/1521726-remote-anywhere-ux-product-design-lead Owns the design system + writes the AI-prompting guides Bringg’s PMs use to generate UI — a near-bespoke match. (seen 07-11)

Stretch (full-time)

No new Stretch — web3.career is fully deduped against the last week. The two strongest still-open, re-flagged for breadth:

Sources: gofractional.com/jobs + /jobs/design + /jobs/product + /jobs/remote (web_fetch), fractionaljobs.io live board + Elemental/Cro Metrics/Coworked listings (web_fetch), web3.career/design+remote-jobs (web_fetch), plus WebSearch across uiuxjobsboard, Lenny’s, WeWorkRemotely, YC, “design engineer” terms. Chrome tab-context connected but navigation failed → JS-only boards (Wellfound/Contra/LinkedIn/Toptal) not read directly today.