Sometimes the outcome of an audit or a build
Senior design leadership, without the executive search.
Signal UX embeds senior design leadership directly in your team, part-time. It’s not something we pitch upfront — most often it’s a next step once we already know your product from an audit or a build.
What a fractional lead does
Strategic clarity
Align design with business goals and product roadmaps.
Team velocity
Unblock your designers and ship high-quality products faster.
Design quality
Raise the bar on craft and consistency across your product suite.
Who it suits
Teams that already have designers or a product roadmap, but no senior design voice steering it — usually because a full-time head of design isn’t justified yet, or the search would take too long. This fills that gap on a fixed, part-time cadence.
- For
- Product teams with an existing design function that needs senior direction, not more hands.
- You get
- A senior designer embedded in your team and rituals on a fixed weekly/monthly cadence.
- Typical timeline
- Ongoing, for as long as the arrangement is useful — reviewed regularly, not locked into a long contract.
- How it's priced
- A fixed monthly rate for a set number of hours. Ask us for current figures.