Product Designer (PT Contract Position)

Inside Real Estate is seeking a part-time contract Product Designer to support its product design team. The role owns end-to-end interface design for core products, including interaction design, prototyping, component design, design system evolution, and quality oversight. The designer will collaborate with product managers and engineers, refine AI-generated design outputs, and contribute to AI-native product experiences and customer research.

Responsibilities:

• Drive product design for the Inside Real Estate family of products: interface design, interaction patterns, prototyping, and design quality as features move from concept to ship
• Design within and extend the design system, using our component library as the source of truth, and helping evolve it as new patterns emerge
• Partner closely with PMs and engineers on standard feature work (briefed requests, clear scope, fast turnaround) and on larger zero-to-one initiatives (early, exploratory, iterative)
• Review and refine AI-generated design output: our design generation agent produces first-pass, library-compliant mockups for BAU work; you'll review, refine, and approve before handoff
• Bring craft to AI-native product experiences, designing conversational UI patterns, trust-building details, and progressive disclosure that make AI feel like a knowledgeable advisor
• Participate in customer listening, sitting in on customer calls, running usability checks on prototypes, and feeding signals back into design decisions
• Help maintain design system documentation and flag component gaps as you encounter them

Requirements:

• 3–5+ years of product design experience, ideally in B2B SaaS or a fast-moving product org
• A strong portfolio showing end-to-end craft: interaction design, prototyping, and shipped, real-world work
• Comfort designing within (and contributing to) an established design system on a day-to-day basis
• Experience with modern design tooling (Figma or equivalent); openness to working alongside AI design agents as part of the workflow
• Ability to work with both tight, well-scoped briefs and ambiguous, early-stage problems, and to know which mode a given request calls for
• Strong prototyping skills: comfortable making ideas tangible quickly for reviews and user testing
• A collaborative, low-ego approach to working with PMs, engineers, and design leadership on a small team where everyone's working closely together
• This is a part time contract position that will be around 20 hours per week
• Experience designing conversational or AI-assisted interfaces
• Experience in real estate, proptech, or another vertical SaaS space
• Familiarity with design QA/audit workflows (reviewing shipped work against a design system)