DesignStrategists

For companies

Hire with confidence.

Tell us the role and the commitment you need, full-time, fractional or contract. We hand-pick two to three vetted designers and introduce you within days.

Trusted from startups to enterprises

  • TELUS
  • Varicent
  • Software AG
  • Blueprint
  • Spirent
  • Ciena
  • Ruby
  • StarFish Medical

The bar

The designers we introduce.

We know designers who can handle complexity, are comfortable with ambiguity and ship with today's tools.

UX and Product Designers

End-to-end product work: research, interaction, visuals and stakeholder management.

Design Engineers

Design that survives the handoff, because they build it in your real stack.

AI Designers

Designing for non-deterministic output, for trust, and for the correction loop.

Design Researchers

Evidence instead of opinion, and a practice your team can keep running.

Conversational Designers

Chat, voice and agent flows that sound human and fail gracefully.

Design Leaders

Direction, the quality bar and hiring. Accountable for what the team ships.

Why us

We've been in your seat.

We've led design inside enterprises and startups, and we still build products.

Posting the role

  • Hundreds of applicants, most of them wrong
  • Portfolios that prove nothing about how someone thinks
  • Interview rounds that keep multiplying
  • Months to fill, and the good ones gone by then
  • You find out who they really are after they start

Partnering with us

  • Two to three designers, vetted by us
  • Read by a designer, not filtered by a keyword
  • Intro calls within days, not a screening funnel
  • We reach the designers who aren't applying anywhere
  • You know how they think before the first interview

How it works

From the first conversation to meeting people, in about a week.

  1. 01

    Tell us the role

    Twenty minutes on the team, the problem, and whether you need someone full-time, fractional or on contract.

  2. 02

    We go to the network

    We shortlist designers we already know, and reach the ones who aren't looking. No post, no pile of applications.

  3. 03

    You meet two or three

    Intro calls within days, with our read on each person. No fee to shortlist, no obligation to hire.

  4. 04

    We stay through the start

    Offer, onboarding, and the first month in the seat. We're accountable for whether it works, not just whether it closes.

Start with the role.

Two minutes now, a quick call, then a hand-picked shortlist in your inbox.