Product Designer

Spate is a Y Combinator-backed trend intelligence platform helping consumer brands identify emerging trends in beauty, wellness, food, and beverages.

Founded by former Google Trendspotting leaders Yarden Horwitz and Olivier Zimmer, the company analyzes aggregated consumer data to help businesses make smarter product and marketing decisions.

More than 200 brands use Spate, including Sephora, L'Oréal Paris, Estée Lauder Companies, Unilever, P&G, and e.l.f.

About the Role

Spate is hiring a part-time Product Designer to help shape its AI-powered analytics platform.

You'll design the dashboards, reports, and intelligent experiences that help brand teams understand consumer trends and make better decisions.

The platform already includes an AI Assistant, AI-generated reports, and automated insights. As Spate expands its LLM capabilities, you'll help determine how these features should work, not just how they should look.

You'll join a four-person Frontend & UX team and collaborate closely with engineers, taking ownership of design decisions from discovery through launch.

This is a fully remote contract position requiring approximately 20 hours per week.

What You'll Do

• Own product design initiatives from problem discovery to implementation.
• Identify user pain points through customer conversations, feedback, and usage data.
• Design intuitive dashboards, user flows, wireframes, and interactive prototypes.
• Shape AI-powered features, including conversational assistants, automated reports, and contextual insights.
• Design how the product communicates AI uncertainty, data sources, and potential errors.
• Maintain and improve the Figma design system in collaboration with frontend engineers.
• Translate complex data into accessible experiences for nontechnical users.
• Present product proposals and collaborate with engineers to bring features into production.

Requirements

• 2+ years of product design experience, with features shipped in real products.
• Strong UX/UI design skills and confidence working independently.
• A portfolio demonstrating problem-solving, including at least one project that began without clear requirements.
• Experience with, or interest in, dashboards, analytics, or data-intensive products.
• Understanding of design systems and reusable UI components.
• Interest in AI products, LLMs, and emerging interaction patterns.
• Excellent Figma skills and regular use of AI-assisted design tools.
• Strong written communication and experience managing freelance or contract deliverables.

Nice to Have

• Experience as the first or sole designer on a product team.
• Background in AI-powered products or evaluating LLM outputs.
• Strong data visualization skills.
• Experience building design systems or functional prototypes with AI tools.
• Familiarity with consumer brands, marketing analytics, or trend intelligence.

Compensation & Working Conditions

• Hourly rate: $75/hour.
• Schedule: Approximately 20 hours per week.
• Estimated annual earnings: $78,000, assuming 52 weeks at 20 paid hours per week.
• Contract: Independent contractor.
• Location: Remote, based in US Eastern or Central Time.
• Core collaboration hours: 9:00 AM–12:00 PM Eastern Time.

The role offers flexible working arrangements, significant autonomy, and direct involvement in product decisions.

During your first 90 days, you'll learn the platform, deliver initial UX improvements, design a meaningful feature, and collaborate with the team to launch it.

The recruitment process includes interviews, a short assessment, a design case study, and a conversation with the CEO.

A New Challenge for Product Designers: Making AI Insights Useful

Spate isn't simply adding a chatbot to a dashboard. It's rethinking how people interact with data through AI.

If this kind of product design interests you, take a look at Designlab's AI Product Design Certification (Affiliate link), which explores designing user experiences for AI-powered products.

Independent educational recommendation from UX Remote Talent. Not required for this position. Affiliate disclosure: we may earn a commission.