# Principal Product Designer. Brand and Experience (Contract, Hands-On)

**Company**: OfferUp
**Location**: Bellevue, WA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: contract
**Salary**: $140-$165/hr
**Category**: Design
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

OfferUp is evolving from a highly transactional local marketplace into a broader platform connecting people with valuable opportunities around them. We are looking for a senior, hands-on product design leader to help us determine how a more distinctive, locally relevant and brand-informed experience can improve user comprehension, activation, trust and return behavior.

## The Role

The Fractional Principal Product Designer will be personally designing and building this work. This is an individual-contributor, hands-on-keyboard role, not a direction-setting or oversight-only position.

Key responsibilities include:

- Translating OfferUp's brand strategy into practical product-experience principles

- Identifying high-value opportunities to make the product more comprehensible, locally relevant, trustworthy and recognizably OfferUp

- Designing user experiences in Figma from concept through engineering-ready hand-off

- Developing testable hypotheses and building prototypes to test them

- Partnering closely with UX Design and Consumer Product teams to prototype, validate, ship and measure the work

- Building reusable interaction, visual and content patterns

- Assessing the design operating model and recommending long-term capability

## Expected deliverables

By the end of the engagement, the designer will have produced:

- An audit of the current experience and its strategic gaps

- A concise set of product-experience principles

- Clearly articulated user and business hypotheses

- Validated prototypes for two strategically significant areas

- At least one experience advanced into a live experiment or engineering implementation

- Implementation-ready designs and specifications

- Reusable product design patterns and recommendations

- A measurement readout covering qualitative findings and behavioral results

## Measures of success

Success will be evaluated based on:

- Faster time to first meaningful value

- Improved comprehension of OfferUp's value and use cases

- Increased completion of activation behaviors

- Greater engagement with locally relevant content

- Improved comprehension and use of identity and trust signals

- Improved return behavior

- Strong qualitative improvements in perceived usefulness, ease, trust, relevance and visual appeal

- Adoption of reusable experience principles and patterns

## Ideal background

We are looking for someone with:

- Significant experience designing consumer mobile products at scale

- A portfolio showing strong interaction design and visual judgment

- Demonstrated ability to translate brand strategy into digital experience

- Experience improving discovery, marketplace, commerce or local products

- Fluency in experimentation, behavioral metrics and qualitative research

- Experience creating or evolving product design systems

- Executive communication skills to influence senior leaders

## Compensation

The role is offered as an hourly contract rate: $140-$165/hr for 1099 Independent Contractor or $100-$130/hr for W-2 Contract Employee.

## Skills

### Required
- interaction design
- visual design
- brand strategy
- product design systems
- experimentation
- qualitative research

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