Product Designer

Calculated Hire; United States; On-site; USD 82,000 - 137,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Weekly pay

Benefits

Potential extension to full-time

Job summary

Calculated Hire is seeking a Product Designer for the Mobile App team within a global athletic footwear and apparel retailer. You will shape experiences for high-engagement mobile users, leading native iOS and Android design from concept to launch.

You’ll collaborate with product, engineering, and research, leverage the design system, and ensure accessible, high-quality app features. This 6‑month contract includes weekly pay and benefits, with potential to extend or convert to full-time.

Qualifications

• 1–2+ years of product design experience with a focus on native mobile apps.
• Strong portfolio featuring shipped iOS and/or Android work.
• Familiarity with Human Interface Guidelines and Material Design; understanding of native vs responsive patterns.
• Proficiency in Figma, including components, variants, variables, and design tokens.
• Awareness of accessibility standards and applying them on mobile.
• Experience designing within and contributing to a design system.
• Curiosity about AI-assisted design workflows and using emerging tools for exploration and handoff.

Responsibilities

• Design native iOS and Android experiences from concept to execution for high-traffic app features.
• Partner with product, engineering, and research to translate user needs into intuitive experiences.
• Design for app-specific moments and capabilities.
• Follow a user-centered, data-driven process from sketches to prototypes.
• Contribute to and align with the design system across app surfaces.
• Build accessible experiences by default across devices, OS versions, and screen sizes.
• Collaborate with mobile engineering to ensure design specs are implemented accurately.
• Own work from discovery through release and communicate status clearly.
• Participate in design critiques to raise quality.

Skills

Mobile app design

Team collaboration

User-centered design

Communication skills

Tools

Figma

Job description

6-month contract (W2, Weekly Pay, Benefits, potential to extend or convert to full-time)

Overview

The Experience Design team at a global athletic footwear and apparel retailer is a group of designers, researchers, and writers rethinking how customers experience the brand across mobile app, responsive web, and in-store touchpoints. As a Product Designer on the Mobile App team, you'll shape the experience for the most loyal, highest-engagement customers — the app is where sneaker culture shows up first, from launches to loyalty.

Responsibilities

• Design native iOS and Android experiences from concept to execution for high-traffic, high-visibility app features that solve customer needs and drive the business forward.
• Partner with multi-disciplinary teams — product, engineering, research — to translate user needs, business requirements, and platform constraints into intuitive, engaging experiences.
• Design for app‑specific moments and capabilities.
• Follow a user‑centered, data‑driven design process to conceptualize and iterate on solutions, from sketches to wireframes to interactive prototypes.
• Design with the company's enterprise design system, and contribute mobile components, patterns, and documentation back to it as the system expands to app surfaces.
• Build accessible experiences by default, applying ADA, WCAG, and native platform accessibility standards throughout your work.
• Collaborate closely with mobile engineering through design‑to‑code workflows, reviewing builds against design specs and conducting QA across devices, OS versions, and screen sizes.
• Take ownership of assigned work from discovery through release, communicating status and rationale clearly to teammates and stakeholders.
• Participate actively in design critiques, giving and receiving constructive feedback to raise the bar on quality.

Qualifications

• 1-2+ years of product design experience with a focus on native mobile apps, preferably in e-commerce or retail.
• Strong portfolio featuring shipped iOS and/or Android work, showing several projects and your direct contributions.
• Familiarity with Human Interface Guidelines and Material Design, and an understanding of how native patterns differ from responsive web.
• Proficiency in Figma (including components, variants, variables, and design tokens).
• Working knowledge of accessibility standards and how to apply them on mobile.
• Experience designing within and contributing to a design system.
• Curiosity about AI‑assisted design workflows and an interest in using emerging tools to accelerate exploration, prototyping, and design‑to‑code handoff.
• Comfortable working with mobile engineers and understanding how design decisions translate into implementation and release cycles.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills.