Senior Product Designer (Contract)

Momentum is not a place for narrow specialists. We are a **true product design group**: our designers move fluidly across the entire process—from hands-on research and insight gathering, to framing experience strategies, leading client workshops, crafting UX/UI systems, and embedding AI-driven thinking into product and service ecosystems. As a **Senior Product Designer**, you will shape outcomes at the intersection of **business analysis, service design, and digital product experience**. This requires craft, confidence, and the ability to guide both teams and clients through complexity. We are a **global company**, with clients and team members distributed across time zones, so flexibility in how and when you collaborate is essential for our integrated approach to succeed. This position can be **hybrid or remote**, but candidates must be available during working hours aligned with our **Palo Alto, California office (PST time zone)**. Full-time work from the Palo Alto office is also an option. We welcome both full-time employees and contractors, and qualified international candidates within **reasonable time zones** are encouraged to apply. **Please provide a link to your portfolio in your resume or in your work experiences, including the password if applicable. Applications without a portfolio will not be considered.** **About us:** Momentum helps global brands, fast-moving startups, and category leaders solve **high-impact business challenges through product and service design**. Our work extends beyond digital interfaces. We design **multi-channel, multi-touch experiences** that integrate **brand, experience, and value** across physical, digital, and human interactions. We are **collaborators first**—partnering with clients in workshops, research, and prototyping to uncover opportunities, reduce risk, and drive innovation. Each engagement is unique, but all are grounded in the same belief: **design should create clarity, confidence, and transformation.** **What You'll Work On:** Designers at Momentum move across industries, problems, and horizons. As a Senior Product Designer at Momentum, you may help: * Shape the **future of mobility**, exploring how people, vehicles, and services connect in new ecosystems * Reimagine **neurosurgical planning** through 3D, VR, AR, and **AI-powered tools** that support both pre-operative planning and live surgical procedures * Architect **end-to-end telecom service experiences** across digital and physical touchpoints * Build **intelligent digital agents** to combat misinformation in global health * Visualize and model strategies for **billion-dollar venture portfolios**, with AI-augmented insights * Design **multi-channel healthcare journeys** for patients, providers, and caregivers—personalized through **AI orchestration and automation** * Shape **carbon-positive experiences** through climate and sustainability platforms * Explore the frontier of **AI-powered experiences**—from automation to augmentation and beyond **Requirements** **Who We’re Looking For:** We are seeking designers who thrive across the full spectrum of product design—hands-on and strategic, analytical and creative, global and collaborative. * **Experience** – 4+ years of applicable product design experience with a portfolio that demonstrates both interaction and visual design at a high level of fidelity * **Language** – Excellent written and spoken English; this is a 100% English-speaking role * **Fluency Across Stages** – Skilled in research, synthesis, strategy, and UX/UI delivery; comfortable facilitating workshops and leading client conversations * **AI IQ** – Strong understanding of AI as both material and method. If you’d rate yourself a 4 or 5 (on a 1–5 scale), we want to talk. Skills in **vibe coding, prompt engineering, agentic architectures, and rapid prototyping workflows** are highly valued * **Systems Thinking** – Ability to design for the whole: ecosystems, organizations, and interactions that span channels and services * **Business Acumen** – Skilled at framing trade-offs and linking design decisions to measurable outcomes * **Craft** – Proficient in Figma and other design tools; able to create modular, scalable design systems and prototypes that bring clarity to complex problems * **Collaboration** – Comfortable in distributed, multi-time-zone teams; eager to learn from peers and share knowledge; able to work across industries and contexts with clients as true partners * **Attributes** – Curious, adaptable, empathetic, critical thinker who can defend design decisions with clarity and conviction * **Mobility** – Willingness to travel occasionally for client engagements or team activities (less than 20%) **Additional Skills** * Creating and conducting User/Customer/Stakeholder interviews, Solution Validation Interviews, and Usability Testing * Conducting current state assessments inclusive of heuristic evaluations and your expert analysis. * Review and parse user research findings * Understand, conceptualize, create and communicate user mental models, personas, user flow diagrams, journey maps, and other information architecture deliverables. * Experimenting with motion, 3D, or emerging front-end technologies **Benefits** Designers at Momentum aren’t locked into roles—they are empowered to **shape outcomes across industries and touchpoints.** No year is the same. You’ll gain: * Opportunities to influence products and services used by millions worldwide * Experience across startups, scale-ups, and Fortune 500 companies * Exposure to industries ranging from health to climate to finance * Collaboration with colleagues and clients across continents * The chance to experiment at the forefront of AI, design, and technology **The Perks:** * **Create Impact** – Influence real-world products and services at scale * **Work Across Boundaries** – Expand your range with projects spanning industries and markets * **Collaborate Globally** – Learn how design operates across cultures and contexts * **Experiment with AI** – Push the edges of how AI transforms discovery, design, and delivery * **Grow Continuously** – Learn from peers in design, data, engineering, and business strategy Competitive salary and benefits, diverse projects, and opportunities for global collaboration are part of the package. More importantly, you’ll join a culture where **design is treated as a core driver of business value and human experience.** 👉 **If you’re a designer who thrives across the full arc of product design—and who brings both craft and systems thinking—we’d like to meet you.**