UX Fractional Leadership
Core Promise: Rapidly elevate your product’s UX and team capability with an embedded, part-time UX leader—without the cost or risk of a full-time hire.
Design Leadership—without the full-time hire
We embed an experienced UX Director into your product team 1–3 days per week to level up your product experience, guide your designers, and drive results—fast.
What We Do
Your UX is holding back growth—and your team knows it.
You’re seeing churn, onboarding drop-offs, inconsistent experiences, or stalled delivery. You’ve got good designers, but no one steering the vision or making UX a strategic priority.
Hiring a full-time UX lead feels risky, expensive, or premature. Meanwhile, the UX debt keeps piling up.
That’s where we come in.
How We Help
Torii’s Fractional UX Leadership model plugs an experienced UX Director directly into your product and design team—1 to 3 days per week.
We work alongside your team to:
🧭 Define and prioritise your UX roadmap
🧪 Plan and synthesize user research
🔍 Audit usability issues and design quality
🧑🏫 Mentor your designers and guide hiring
🔄 Implement UX processes that stick
🤝 Align design with product, dev, and leadership
⚡ Provide async support and rapid reviews via Slack
Everything’s flexible. Start with a trial or sprint. Scale as needed. No long-term commitment.
Why It Matters
Without clear UX leadership, product debt builds, and momentum fades.
Your team ends up guessing.
Designers lack direction.
And every customer touchpoint suffers.
With a fractional UX leader, you get:
✅ A product that feels effortless to use
✅ Faster delivery with less rework
✅ A confident, cohesive design process
✅ UX that earns trust—from users, stakeholders, and investors
You don’t need to hire a full-time Head of Design to lead with quality.
You just need someone who knows how to move fast and make UX a team strength—not a bottleneck.
Common Questions
Yes. Most startups have designers. What they’re missing is strategic UX leadership. We don’t replace your team—we make them better. Our UX lead brings structure, clarity, and evidence-based direction to support your designers and align them with business goals.
Absolutely. Our leads are senior UX operators who parachute in with speed. They’ve led design at top tech companies and know how to deliver impact in a few days a week. Expect tangible improvements—fast.
Good news: you don’t have to. Our model is fully flexible—month-to-month, easy to scale or pause. You can even start with a 2-week trial or short UX sprint to test fit and value.
We embed like an internal leader. You’ll see us in your Slack, your stand-ups, your roadmap meetings. Our clients say it feels like we’re just another member of the team—with less overhead and more experience.