A product designer owns how the product works, not only how it looks: the research that frames the problem, the interaction design that solves it, and the system that keeps the twentieth screen consistent with the first. This is the default design hire for a software team, and the one that pays back fastest when the product has real users.
What it costs
US product designers bill roughly $50 to $140 per hour on vetted marketplaces, or $90,000 to $160,000 as a full-time base salary.
When this is the wrong hire
If you need a logo, a brochure, or campaign assets, hire a graphic designer instead. Product designers cost more and the skills only partly overlap.
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In the US market the titles have largely merged into product designer. Splitting UX and UI across two hires only makes sense on larger teams with a mature design system.
Usually two to four weeks of a senior designer. Beyond that, most teams learn more from shipping and watching real users than from another round of screens.
Yes, and it is common at two to three days a week. What does not work is part-time design on a team shipping daily, because the handoffs stall.
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