Senior Product Designer (Contract)

andgosystems; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

andesystems is seeking an experienced Senior Product Designer to lead the design of workforce software, with a focus on AI-enabled experiences and complex scheduling workflows. The role spans discovery through launch, collaborating closely with product and engineering to deliver reliable, scalable solutions.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years in enterprise product design, strong interaction design, and hands-on experience shaping AI features within design systems.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in product design for complex B2B/enterprise software.
• Portfolio showing discovery through launch.
• Strong design systems, multi-step workflows, and dense interfaces.
• Ability to influence product and engineering teams with clear reasoning.

Responsibilities

• Take over ongoing design work and maintain delivery momentum.
• Lead end-to-end design for new AI-focused experiences.
• Design clear controls for AI decisions, including review/override.
• Create connected flows and contribute to design system components.
• Use prototypes and evidence to align teams on design choices.
• Plan and run customer discovery sessions and synthesize findings.

Skills

Interaction design

Systems thinking

Design systems

Research facilitation

AI features

Prototyping

Communication

Job description

Role overview

Lead product design for workforce software used to coordinate time-critical staffing, with a focus on making complex scheduling work faster and more reliable. The contract spans new AI-enabled product areas and an established platform, combining end-to-end design, customer research, and close delivery work with product and engineering colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Take over design work already in progress, learn prior decisions quickly, and keep delivery moving.
• Lead end-to-end design for new AI-focused experiences while refining existing product workflows.
• Design clear user controls and states for AI decisions, including confidence, errors, and ways for users to review or override outcomes.
• Create connected flows, interaction patterns, and visual interfaces, and contribute components to a design system.
• Use prototypes, evidence, and clear rationale to align product, engineering, and stakeholders on design decisions.
• Plan and facilitate customer discovery sessions, synthesize findings with the team, and prepare follow-up summaries.

Requirements

• 7+ years in product design, primarily on complex B2B or enterprise software, with a portfolio showing work from discovery through launch.
• Strong interaction design and systems thinking for multi-step workflows, plus polished visual design for information-dense interfaces.
• Good judgment about design quality and delivery constraints, with the ability to explain tradeoffs.
• A record of influencing product and engineering teams through clear reasoning and of joining ongoing work to make progress quickly.
• Strong research and facilitation skills, including work with frontline or operational users in person.
• Hands‑on experience designing AI features and working in AI‑assisted design and development workflows.
• Experience building design system components and clear written communication.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with workforce management, scheduling, healthcare operations, or other rule‑heavy systems.
• Experience with unionized, healthcare, or manufacturing workforces, or with high‑volume mobile products for frontline staff.

Benefits and work setup

• Independent contract for 4–6 months initially, at 4–5 days per week, with an option to extend; monthly invoicing against agreed deliverables.
• Remote in Canada, with overlap in Central or Mountain time and occasional travel for customer discovery.
• Use personal equipment; access to design tools, development workflow, and relevant repositories is provided. Weekly product leadership check-ins and regular design reviews are part of the engagement.