Job leads — 29 Jul 2026
Market pulse
Chrome connected ✓ — read the JS boards directly (Fractional Jobs, Go Fractional design + product, web3.career design, UX Jobs Board freelance). Plus ~8 WebSearch passes across fractional/contract design + PM, design-engineer, web3/AI, and remote-general sources.
Rough counts: Fractional Jobs 63 live (0 new design/product that fit — the only design slots are still Cro Metrics, Elemental, 223, all logged); Go Fractional design 14 / product 8 (all already seen — Connected Product Design Co, Cambly, Teal, EGAMI, Ad Tech VP, Gesture, Omnidian — or agency/hybrid/geo-locked London/Paris/NYC); web3.career design 15 (all STRETCH full-time, all already logged — Bitpanda ×5, Taxbit, Blockchain, Alpaca, Shakepay ×2, Tastylive ×2, Stokr); UX Jobs Board freelance ~95 (top of feed refreshed with 2 new remote-Canada contract roles; the rest is research / on-site / geo-locked or already logged). WebSearch surfaced a few listings (A.Team on WWR, Floe Labs on Wellfound) that were already expired (410) when verified — no longer live.
Trend: another quiet day — 1 marginal new CORE lead, no new stretch. Same shape as 28 Jul: the boards haven’t refreshed much on the part-time/fractional side. Rather than a bare “0 new,” I’ve flagged the one borderline-new role plus re-flagged the strongest still-open CORE roles below so there’s always something actionable.
CORE — new leads (part-time / fractional / contract, direct, remote)
- UX/UI Designer — AlgaeCal · contract, Remote (Canada) · https://uiuxjobsboard.com/design-jobs/freelance
- Borderline-new. Direct-with-company (health / supplements product co, not an agency), remote contract UI/UX. Fit is decent — full-scope UI/UX. Caveats to verify: typically Vancouver-based, may prefer Canada tz/residency, and hours aren’t stated (could be full-time-ish contract, not fractional). Angle: full-scope design + design→code (ship the build) as a solo-contractor advantage.
Near-miss logged, not shortlisted: Kanopi — Contract Senior UX/UI Designer (Remote Canada, $104–146k, posted ~20h ago) — reads as a web agency / client-services studio (Kanopi Studios), which fails the “direct with a company” filter. Skip unless you want agency work.
Nothing else genuinely new today. Re-flagging the strongest still-open CORE roles (all verified live on the boards this week):
- Web3 Product Designer, Network — Nova Labs (Helium) · contract, part-time ~20h,
Remote (US), $75–100/hr · https://web3.career/product-designer-network-contract-pt-novalabs/100493
- The tightest match to foogy’s edge: web3 + contract + part-time + US-tz. Angle: crypto background + design→code; lead with foogy.xyz web3 work + a Helium-ecosystem prototype.
- Fractional Senior Product Designer — Uprise · contract, ~20h, Remote (US), fintech
· https://www.fractionaljobs.io/jobs/senior-product-designer-at-uprise
- fintech + fractional + US-tz. Angle: fintech/e-comm portfolio + systems thinking; foogy.xyz plus a fintech flow teardown.
- Fractional Senior Product Designer (Staff Level) — Connected Product Design Company
· contract, 5–20h, Remote (Minnesota, US), $75–155/hr · https://www.gofractional.com/jobs/design
- Staff-level, low-hours, direct-with-company, verified still live (posted 15d). Angle: full-scope design-systems + design→code; a small systems case study lands well.
Also still open and worth a look: Yaysay (Fractional Product Design Lead, fully remote 10–20h — https://www.fractionaljobs.io/jobs/product-design-lead-at-yaysay) and Bringg (UX/Product Design Lead, contract, Remote Anywhere, SaaS — on the UX Jobs Board freelance feed). Both logged last week, both still listed today.
Stretch (full-time)
No new full-time roles — the web3.career design board is unchanged from the 27–28 Jul sweeps. The freshest still-open stretch roles (design→code / web3 edge):
- UI Engineer — Taxbit · Remote, $110–170k · https://web3.career/design+remote-jobs — pure design→code (foogy’s front-of-the-front-end strength); the strongest stretch fit.
- Principal Product Designer — Bitpanda · Remote, $117–165k · https://web3.career/design+remote-jobs — web3/fintech, senior IC.
- Senior Product Designer, Consumer — Blockchain · Remote, $98–120k · https://web3.career/design+remote-jobs — consumer web3.
Notes
- Appended 2 rows to
_seen.md(AlgaeCal, Kanopi). - Coverage was good (Chrome worked); the low yield is the market, not a blind spot. Two WebSearch “hits” (A.Team, Floe Labs) were already expired on click — a reminder that search-engine caches lag the boards.
- If quiet days keep recurring, worth adding Contra / Pangea filtered listings and a Lenny’s Job Board pass to the daily Chrome sweep for fresh PM roles.