Ryz Labs/Hire/Product & DesignHire senior product designers who work inside your product team
Senior product designers who turn research into shipped flows, own design systems in Figma and work daily with your engineers and PMs on US hours.
By the Ryz Labs team · Updated October 2026
Hiring product designers through Ryz gets you senior designers who own problems end to end: understanding users, shaping flows, designing in Figma and working with engineers until it ships. They are in the top 1% of the candidates we interview, they join your product rituals as embedded team members, and they work within ±1h of US time zones.
What our product designers work on
Our product designers work on software products, from complex B2B tools to consumer mobile apps. They are not decorators brought in at the end. They help decide what to build, test ideas before engineering commits, and sweat the details that make a product easy to use.
- End-to-end feature design: problem framing, user flows, wireframes, high-fidelity screens and interactive prototypes in Figma.
- Design systems: building or maturing component libraries with variables, tokens and documentation that engineers can map to code.
- Complex B2B workflows: dashboards, permissions, data-heavy tables and multi-step configuration that power users rely on.
- Mobile apps: iOS and Android patterns, gestures and platform conventions per the Human Interface Guidelines and Material Design.
- Onboarding and activation: redesigning sign-up and first-run experiences against product analytics.
- AI features in products: designing interfaces for assistants and AI-generated content, including uncertainty, review and correction states.
Skills we vet for
- Interaction design: clear flows, information architecture, states for empty, loading and error, and edge cases most people skip.
- Visual craft: typography, layout, hierarchy and spacing that hold up across screen sizes.
- Figma fluency: auto layout, components and variants, variables, prototyping and organized files that others can pick up.
- User research: planning and running interviews and usability tests, and turning findings into decisions.
- Product thinking: tying design choices to user problems and business goals, and working with metrics.
- Design systems: component APIs, tokens, contribution models and keeping design and code in sync.
- Accessibility: WCAG 2.2 basics, color contrast, focus order, screen reader behavior and inclusive patterns.
- Collaboration with engineering: specs and handoff, Dev Mode, reviewing builds and making smart trade-offs when time is short.
How we vet product designers
Our recruiters source product designers across Latin America, and our in-house ARC system ranks the pipeline. Candidates complete structured NTRVSTA AI interviews that cover how they frame problems, make decisions and work with engineers. Recruiters review each candidate before and after the interview, look closely at portfolios, and build a curated shortlist. AI scores are advisory. People make the decisions.
Sample interview topics
- Portfolio deep dive: walk through one shipped project from problem to launch. What did research change, what got cut, and what would you do differently now?
- Prioritizing feedback: usability tests show five problems in a new flow, and engineering can fix two before launch. How do you choose, and how do you make the case?
- Designing for complexity: an admin screen needs to manage roles and permissions for 500 users. How do you approach the layout and the bulk actions?
- Design system judgment: a product team keeps detaching components to meet deadlines. How do you respond without becoming a bottleneck?
- Measuring impact: how would you know if a redesigned onboarding flow worked, and what would you set up before launch to find out?
Ways to hire product designers
| Option | Best for | Trade-offs |
|---|
| Freelance marketplace | A defined deliverable like a landing page, an icon set or a quick concept. | Freelancers rarely stay through build and iteration. Product context is lost between projects. |
| Design or recruiting agency | A rebrand, a one-time redesign or filling a known role. | Agency work can be polished but detached from your roadmap and engineers. |
| In-house recruiting | Building a permanent design organization and leadership. | Long hiring cycles, and portfolio review takes real time from your design leads. |
| Ryz Labs staff augmentation | Adding senior product designers to existing product squads. | Custom quote, scoped per team. Works best when the designer has a clear product partner. |
| Ryz Labs dedicated team | A new product or major rebuild where design, product and engineering work as one team. | Requires a scoping conversation. Suited to multi-month work. |
If you need a brand identity, a marketing campaign or a one-off visual asset, a creative agency or freelancer is likely a better fit. Ryz places product designers who work on the product itself, day to day.
Why hire product designers from Latin America
Product design is collaborative work. The best design decisions come from quick conversations with engineers and PMs, live critiques and same-day iteration. A designer within an hour of your team's clock can join design reviews, sit in on customer calls and respond to engineering questions while the build is happening.
Latin America has a strong design community with active Figma and UX groups, design schools and years of experience working with US product companies. The designers we place present their work clearly in English, write concise rationale, and are comfortable defending a decision or changing course when the data says so.
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FAQ
Do your product designers do user research?
Yes. Our senior product designers plan and run interviews and usability tests. If you have a dedicated research team, they work with it. If you do not, they can cover lightweight research themselves.
Can they work in our existing Figma design system?
Yes. Most have worked within mature design systems and helped maintain them. They follow your conventions and contribute back rather than starting a parallel library.
How much does it cost to hire a product designer through Ryz?
We give a custom quote, scoped per team. Before you sign, you get a plan, a price and the names of the designers who would join you.
How are designers contracted, and what hours do they keep?
You sign one contract with Ryz. Our designers work with us as independent contractors, and we handle paying them. They work within ±1h of US time zones.
Can a product designer also handle UX writing or front-end code?
Some can write strong interface copy, and a few are comfortable in HTML, CSS or React. If either is a core need, tell us during scoping so we match for it.
Questions we didn't answer? Email info@ryzlabs.com.