Viget

Product Designer

• Ensure design quality and consistency
• Help uphold Viget’s design standards across client engagements staffed with contract designers.
• Step in thoughtfully when issues arise by clarifying expectations, mediating concerns, and helping all parties move forward.
• Review design work and provide feedback when alignment is needed.
• Act as a thought partner to Client Strategy on design quality, risks, and opportunities within active accounts.
• Support contractors’ success
• Be involved in onboarding new contract designers, providing context, expectations, and guidance so they can contribute effectively from the start.
• Build relationships with contractors that go beyond logistics. Understand what motivates them, where they’re growing, and what kinds of work excite them.
• Offer occasional coaching, feedback, or collaboration when requested or when client feedback calls for it.
• Help create a strong sense of connection to Viget, even for contractors who work with us intermittently.
• Support sourcing and evaluation
• Partner closely with our Director of Talent Strategy on contractor sourcing, evaluation, and long-term network planning.
• Review portfolios and backgrounds; participate in interviews as needed.
• Help match designers to opportunities based on skills, experience, and client context.
• Partner with Client Strategy and Business Development
• Collaborate with Client Strategy to support account health and growth.
• Advise on design staffing approaches during sales conversations and early engagements.
• Develop an understanding of client design expectations, maturity, and ways of working to inform guidance and contractor support.
• Build professional, trusted relationships with client-side design leaders, without owning the account relationship.
• Collaborate internally
• Work closely with Client Strategy, Talent Strategy, and design leadership to strengthen how Viget supports, delivers, and evolves contract-based design work.
• Contribute to improving systems, processes, and best practices in this growing area of the business.
• Navigate the realities of a distributed role
• This role is primarily relationship-based with independent contractors rather than full-time Viget staff.
• You’ll need to be proactive about connection, communication, and visibility to avoid isolation and to build influence without formal authority.

Design Manager