Part-Time Mid-Level Product Designer

We’re looking for a curious, hands-on Product Designer to join Appricot, a boutique product design and consulting studio helping technology companies turn complex AI, SaaS, cybersecurity, and fintech products into clear, useful, and scalable experiences.

This is not a role focused only on producing polished screens.

We’re looking for a designer who can go deep into a product, understand users, business goals, technical constraints, and complex systems, and translate them into thoughtful product experiences.

The right person is genuinely interested in AI and modern product-building workflows. You should be comfortable experimenting, prototyping, and working closer to the technology—not simply handing off a Figma file and moving on.

What you’ll do

• Work on product design projects for technology companies and startups
• Research and define user problems, journeys, flows, and product concepts
• Design complex workflows, wireframes, prototypes, and polished interfaces
• Use AI tools to accelerate research, ideation, prototyping, and execution
• Help design AI-powered experiences, agents, assistants, and workflows
• Create and refine prompts, instructions, skills, and structured AI interactions
• Create, maintain, and work with design systems and reusable components
• Collaborate closely with founders, product teams, and developers
• Present your thinking and clearly explain your design decisions
• Contribute throughout the full product design process, from early strategy to execution

What we’re looking for

• 3–5 years of product design experience
• A portfolio that demonstrates strong product thinking and an end-to-end process—not only polished visuals
• Experience designing complex products, preferably B2B, SaaS, or developer-facing platforms
• Strong UX skills combined with solid visual and UI design abilities
• Hands-on experience using AI tools as part of the design and product-development process
• Experience creating prompts, AI workflows, agents, skills, or functional prototypes
• Technical curiosity and the ability to read and understand basic front-end code
• Familiarity with tools such as GitHub, Claude Code, Cursor, or similar AI-assisted development environments
• Confidence navigating a codebase, making small changes, or collaborating closely with engineers
• Independence, reliability, attention to detail, and strong time-management skills
• Excellent communication skills in English
• Based in Texas and authorized to work in the United States

Nice to have

• Experience building functional prototypes beyond Figma
• Familiarity with React, HTML, CSS, or JavaScript
• Experience designing conversational interfaces or AI-native products
• Experience working in a consultancy, agency, or fast-moving startup environment

Role details

This is a part-time, hourly position of approximately 15 hours per week, with the potential to grow based on project needs.

This role is a strong fit for a designer who wants to work on meaningful and varied product challenges, contribute to strategic and technical decisions, and develop new ways of designing and building products with AI.

To apply, please send us a direct message with a short introduction, your resume, a link to your portfolio to: [email protected]

Appricot is an equal-opportunity employer. Applicants of all backgrounds and identities are encouraged to apply.