Staff designers don't apply. They get called.
frax places fractional and interim product designers, senior to staff, with European B2B software teams. I'm Michał, a staff designer myself. I pick every person on this list, and I pick who you meet.
Personal reply within 24 hours.
Michał Krztoń, founder of frax.
The list.
The people on this list have shipped at TIER, Uber, Deel, Flink, Blinkist, Instacart and Stripe. Fewer than fifty of them. I know each one.
Four of the fifty. The rest I introduce when the brief calls for them.
Brief on Monday. Someone starts within two weeks.
25 minutes. The role, the stage, the timeline.
A shortlist of three from the frax list, matched by me personally.
Embedded in your team, autonomous from day one, within one to two weeks.
"Being able to quickly and reliably pull in design support for projects, parental or sick leaves ensures we keep our momentum and ship."
Tarek Sadi, VP of Design at Blinkist
Know a team that needs a designer? €3,000. Flat.
Introduce me to a company that ends up hiring through frax and I pay you €3,000 within 14 days of their first invoice. Not a percentage, not a share of something you can't see. Three thousand euro, every time.
Applies to placements of one month or longer. One referral per company, first intro wins.
Why I do this
I built frax because I know what a bad design hire costs, in time, in culture, in product momentum.
Portfolios show craft. What they rarely show is how someone thinks when the brief is vague, the timeline is short, and the product is still being defined. That's what I look for when I vet someone for this list.
Michał Krztoń. LinkedIn