Pitch — Senior Product Designer (UX/UI), OIO / Korrus
Role: Remote (Pacific overlap) · $100–140/hr · 10–30 hrs/wk · contract, open-ended · reports to VP Engineering Link: https://www.gofractional.com/job/korrus-senior-product-designer-ux-ui-korrus-apps-ai-first-design Company: OIO is the consumer brand of Korrus, a lighting-tech company (500+ patents, co-founded by the Nobel laureate who invented the blue LED). Biologically-aligned light; the apps control the hardware. Apps are live; they’re rebuilding them on a stronger foundation.
Why this is a top-3 fit
Their differentiator IS your differentiator. They explicitly don’t want “static design files passed downstream” — they want a designer who co-builds with engineering inside AI-assisted/agentic workflows. That’s your current practice: full-scope UX + UI and you ship the front-end with AI. Most applicants will pitch Figma craft; you can pitch design-to-working-app.
Other direct hits:
- Consumer mobile + connected hardware: Zevo (P2P EV sharing) = consumer mobile app with contactless unlock — device pairing / connected-product flows for physical hardware. Matches their “companion apps for consumer hardware” plus.
- Redesign of a live product: they require at least one. You’ve rebuilt shipping products (Samsung eShop, Haas, Sancta Domenica) — audit-first, fix what’s broken without breaking what works.
- Calm interfaces from complex inputs: translating circadian science into something “simple, calm, trustworthy” is your kind of problem.
- Discovery-first engagement: they want someone who scopes properly over rushing — plays to how you work.
The one gap to close before you apply (important)
Their #1 stated ask: “case studies that show how you diagnosed problems and made decisions, not just the final screens.” Your site is intentionally signal-first / one-screen-per-project — beautiful, but light on process. Before (or right as) you apply, prep 2–3 deeper walkthroughs that show the thinking:
- Zevo — mobile + connected hardware, end-to-end (their strongest-matching case).
- One live-product redesign — Samsung eShop or Haas; lead with the audit → decisions → outcome.
- Optional: one where you designed and shipped the build with AI — this is your wedge; even a small recent example proves the claim. These don’t need to be long; they need to show diagnosis and trade-offs.
Timezone (address it head-on)
You’re in Zagreb (CET); they want meaningful Pacific overlap. That’s your late afternoon/evening. You’ve worked mostly with US teams, so frame it as a solved problem, not a caveat.
Ready-to-send cover note
Hi [name / OIO team],
Your post describes the way I already work, so I’ll be direct about the fit.
I’m a product designer who owns UX and UI end to end — flows, information architecture, and the visual system — and I don’t stop at Figma. With AI tooling I take designs into working front-end myself and co-build with engineering, instead of handing static files downstream. The “ideas to working application” loop you’re describing is my day-to-day now, and I want to go deeper into it, not less.
A few things that line up with OIO specifically:
- Consumer mobile + connected hardware. I led end-to-end design on Zevo, the first P2P EV-sharing platform: a consumer mobile app with contactless unlock — device pairing and connected-product flows for real hardware. Close cousin to a companion app for OIO’s lights.
- Redesigning live products. I’ve come into shipping products, audited how people actually use them, and rebuilt the IA and core flows without breaking what existing users rely on. I’d want to start exactly where you scoped it — a focused discovery and audit phase before touching the interface.
- Calm interfaces from technical domains. Turning circadian science into something that feels simple and trustworthy is the kind of problem I enjoy: make the hard part quiet.
I’m in Zagreb and have worked mostly with US teams, so I can hold a real Pacific overlap in my afternoons and evenings.
Portfolio and case studies: foogy.xyz. Happy to do the paid design exercise — it’s the best way for both of us to see how I work.
Best, Mihael “foogy” Fugaj foogy.xyz · mihael.fugaj@gmail.com
Tip: when you apply, attach the 2–3 case studies above directly (or link straight to them), since “share 2–3 relevant case studies, ideally a redesign of a live product” is their explicit gate.