Freelance Product Designer for AI recruiting marketplace

Clera is an AI-powered talent agent that connects 55,000+ tech professionals with VC-backed startups — not through job boards, but through intelligent, personalized outreach via email, iMessage, and WhatsApp. We've grown from $0 to over $1M ARR in six months, backed by 1984 Ventures, Deel Ventures, and angels from OpenAI, Sequoia, a16z, and LinkedIn. Our product is the agent itself — and the surfaces where talent and companies interact with it. That's what you'd be designing. What you'd work on This is a product design role, not a marketing one. Expect projects like:

• Designing new flows for how candidates experience AI-driven job matching (onboarding, preference setting, opportunity review)
• Evolving the company-facing dashboard where startups manage pipeline, review talent, and track agent activity
• Defining interaction patterns for a product where the AI is the primary actor and the UI supports oversight, not manual input
• Translating complex data (match scores, engagement signals, funnel metrics) into interfaces that are clear without being dumbed down
• Occasionally shaping net-new product concepts from zero — we move fast and test ideas quickly

How the work happens: This is flexible and project-based — not a fixed weekly retainer. We'll scope work together in chunks, typically with async briefs and feedback via Slack/Figma. You'd work directly with our CTO and founding team. Some weeks might be 15+ hours during an intense sprint; others might be quiet. We're looking for someone who's comfortable with that rhythm and doesn't need a standing meeting to stay aligned. What Makes Someone Great At This

• You've designed product UI/UX for software companies — ideally B2B SaaS, marketplaces, or tools with meaningful complexity. You're not just making things pretty; you're making systems legible.
• You think in flows and states, not just screens. You naturally consider empty states, error cases, loading, edge cases.
• You can work from a rough brief or a conversation and produce something that moves the product forward — not a pixel-perfect mockup that took two weeks.
• You're fluent in Figma. Bonus if you have opinions about design systems and component architecture.
• You've freelanced before and know how to manage your own time, ask the right questions early, and flag blockers without being chased.

What we offer

• Competitive project-based compensation (we'll discuss rate and scope together)
• Real product ownership — your work ships to tens of thousands of users, not a backlog
• A small, sharp team that doesn't do design-by-committee
• Potential to grow into a larger role as Clera scales