Embedded Product Design Retainer — Monthly by Mykola PopovEmbedded Product Design Retainer — Monthly by Mykola Popov
Embedded Product Design Retainer — MonthlyMykola Popov
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Your senior product designer, without the hire.
For teams shipping continuously who need design as an ongoing capability rather than a one-off project. I work as part of your team — in your Slack, in your sprint rituals, in the roadmap conversations — not as a vendor you brief and wait on.

What a month typically includes

Design for whatever's in the sprint · discovery and research on what's next · design system maintenance as the product grows · dev support during build · reviewing what shipped against what was designed.
Roughly 60–70 hours a month, flexed to your sprint rhythm. Some weeks are heads-down design, some are research or handoff support — that's the point of a retainer rather than a fixed scope.

How I work inside a team

Comfortable as the only designer in the room and equally at home with PMs and engineers. I bring research footage to disagreements rather than opinions, I'll tell you when a feature isn't the problem, and I'll back cutting my own work when it doesn't serve the metric the company needs to move.
At Veltrix AI I did exactly this for 12 months as the sole designer — brand, marketing site, product, and design system, week after week.

Terms

Monthly, rolling. 30 days notice either way. Two-week minimum trial available if you'd rather start smaller — message me and we'll set it up.

Best for

Seed to Series A AI and B2B SaaS teams shipping every one or two weeks, who've outgrown one-off projects but aren't ready to hire a full-time senior designer.
FAQs

Starting at$5,000 /mo
Tags
Figma
AI
B2B SaaS
Design Systems Specialist
Product Designer
UX Designer
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Mykola Popov Warsaw, Poland
Embedded Product Design Retainer — MonthlyMykola Popov
Starting at$5,000 /mo
Tags
Figma
AI
B2B SaaS
Design Systems Specialist
Product Designer
UX Designer
Cover image for Embedded Product Design Retainer — Monthly
Your senior product designer, without the hire.
For teams shipping continuously who need design as an ongoing capability rather than a one-off project. I work as part of your team — in your Slack, in your sprint rituals, in the roadmap conversations — not as a vendor you brief and wait on.

What a month typically includes

Design for whatever's in the sprint · discovery and research on what's next · design system maintenance as the product grows · dev support during build · reviewing what shipped against what was designed.
Roughly 60–70 hours a month, flexed to your sprint rhythm. Some weeks are heads-down design, some are research or handoff support — that's the point of a retainer rather than a fixed scope.

How I work inside a team

Comfortable as the only designer in the room and equally at home with PMs and engineers. I bring research footage to disagreements rather than opinions, I'll tell you when a feature isn't the problem, and I'll back cutting my own work when it doesn't serve the metric the company needs to move.
At Veltrix AI I did exactly this for 12 months as the sole designer — brand, marketing site, product, and design system, week after week.

Terms

Monthly, rolling. 30 days notice either way. Two-week minimum trial available if you'd rather start smaller — message me and we'll set it up.

Best for

Seed to Series A AI and B2B SaaS teams shipping every one or two weeks, who've outgrown one-off projects but aren't ready to hire a full-time senior designer.
FAQs

$5,000 /mo