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Build your career as a Product Designer
Projects where product design is yours: what gets discovered, what gets prototyped and with which metric you know whether it worked. Shakers connects you with teams that arrive with a live product and a business question, not with a list of screens.
Going independent as a Product Designer in Spain has a measured oddity: employment signs the title in English (991 jobs on LinkedIn, from JetBrains to Mercadona Tech), but no Spanish-language marketplace serves the door. Behance, Toptal and company look for it, in English and in dollars.
This is not a study route: it is what gets delivered on a real engagement, what you must prove and where your territory ends.
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Join ShakersThe decisions a Product Designer makes every week
A Product Designer is the designer of the digital product who covers the complete cycle: they research users, define flows and wireframes, prototype in Figma, look after the interface and accessibility, maintain design systems and work with product metrics next to product managers and engineering. In Spain the market names them with their English title. Their boundary: the one-off experience of use belongs to the UX/UI Designer; the corporate website and identity belong to graphic and web design; the layout in production, to the frontend developer.
You decide what gets discovered before building, who to talk to and what to measure; which prototype goes to engineering and what gets discarded; and which rule of the design system gets defended when the business asks for an exception. You also decide with which metric you will know whether it worked. The product belongs to the business; the design that holds it up is yours.
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How Shakers works for talent
Create your profile
Tell us who you are, what you can do, the projects you want to work on and what your availability and rate are.
Get your certification
We certify your experience and your use of AI so companies understand and trust what you bring.
Match with projects
We connect you with well-paid projects that fit your expertise and your preferences.
Projects that live up to your expectations
Work on real projects, with teams that need your expertise, without wasting time looking for opportunities.
Projects that fit you
Work with companies that need your stack and experience to take their projects to production.
Opportunities that come to you
Our AI matching connects your profile with the projects that fit your preferences.
You build. Shakers handles the rest
Set your own terms based on your seniority. We manage contracts, payments and paperwork.
What a Product Designer delivers on a Shakers project
The engagement arrives with the metric
The activation that will not rise, the checkout that loses users or the design system that brakes the release: a product problem with a number, not a screen.
From discovery to handoff
Interviews and flows, wireframes, high-fidelity prototype in Figma and measurable success criteria: what engineering builds and the business can read.
Figma, systems and data
Figma and FigJam as the workshop, design systems with tokens, A/B testing and activation and retention metrics: design decided with data.
Counted cycles, not a pretty portfolio
Having carried discovery and delivery in product teams and knowing how to tell it: what got measured, what got discarded and what survived the first quarter.
What gets discovered and what gets decided
Separating what gets asked of the user from what gets answered with data, and defending the standard of the system against the exception.
Where your engagement ends
You design the product: the production layout is the frontend's, the web and the logo are another family, and the roadmap gets closed by the product manager.
Frequently asked questions
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What does a Product Designer do on a real project?
They discover, prototype and measure: interviews and flows, high-fidelity prototypes in Figma, design system and metrics review with product and engineering. One week touches the discovery of a feature, another the redesign of a complete flow.
Can you make a living from contract product design in Spain?
Yes, and employment sends the signal: 152 active ads in Spain mention product designer and LinkedIn counts 991 jobs, with more than eleven employers titling the role literally (Shakers market analysis, n=31,957, September 2026). The Spanish-language contract door is empty: that is where you come in.
How much does a contract Product Designer earn?
The mechanism marks it: seniority (the real offer asks for senior and staff), specialisation such as design systems, the sector of the product, the working model and the cycle of the engagement. At Shakers you agree the budget per project before accepting.
Why does no Spanish marketplace serve this category?
The Spanish-language marketplaces serve everything as 'diseñador UX': the product designer door is held by Behance, Toptal and Contra, in English and in dollars. The Spanish-language by-project route, with the correct title, is the alternative.
Is AI going to replace Product Designers?
The job offer already answers: there are titles asking for Figma next to Claude and Cursor. AI stays in the flow (prototyping, iterating, documenting) and the craft in the decision: what gets designed, for whom and with what it gets measured.
How do you join Shakers as a certified Product Designer?
You create your profile, pass the certification process and enter the collective: only 4 percent make it. Then you choose which digital products get your design.
The daily shape of the craft
The interview that discards three features, the prototype that gets tested before building, the design system engineering maintains and the metrics review with the product manager. Fewer showcase portfolios and more product the business measures every month.
The title is English and the market asks for it that way
152 active tech job ads in Spain mention product designer and 305 product design, with literal titles such as 'Senior Product Designer' at JetBrains, 'Product Designer (Confirmed/Senior) - Remote Europe' at Pennylane or 'Staff Product Designer - Design Systems' at Hostaway (Shakers market analysis, n=31,957, September 2026). On LinkedIn they are 991 jobs. And note: the Spanish 'diseñador de producto' is another craft (industrial design); this role is fought in English.
How people get here
They arrive from senior UX/UI design, from the frontend with design judgement or from product itself. The Spanish offer is senior and staff almost in its entirety: the junior enters through the talent route, with projects that add counted cycles to the portfolio.
What this role is not
You do not build the corporate website or the logo: that belongs to the graphic and web designer, another family. You do not lay out production: the code is the frontend's (reading it for the handoff, yes). And the last word on the roadmap belongs to the product manager, your daily counterpart. Your territory is the design of the complete product.
Who you share a digital product with
Product design holds up as a team: whoever builds it, whoever measures and whoever automates with AI cross your discovery every week.
Frontend Developer
You design the system, they build it: components, accessibility and performance. The clean handoff, with tokens and criteria, is the boundary you both sign.
AI Engineer
Claude and Cursor already travel in the title of design job offers: when the engagement includes automating the flow with agents, they share the project with you.
Data Analyst
Activation, retention and experimentation: the data that respects your design. The analyst prepares the question; you design the answer that can be measured.
Full Stack Developer
From your prototype to the product in production, logic and front in the same hands. You share the cycle: discovery, handoff and release.
Ecommerce Developer
When the product is a store: offer presentation, checkout and purchase experience next to whoever builds it on Shopify or PrestaShop.
Boundaries between these roles are agreed per project: the job title doesn't set them.
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Want to sign product that gets measured?
Pass Shakers certification and choose which digital products get your design.
