Fractional jobs – part-time roles for engineers
I'm Taylor, I spent about a year as a Fractional Head of Product. It was my first time not in a full-time W2 role, and I quickly learned that the hardest part of the job wasn't doing the Product work (I was a PM for 10+ years), it was finding good clients to work with. So I built Fractional Jobs. The goal is to help more people break out of W2 life and into their own independent careers by helping them find great clients to work with. We find and vet the clients, and then engineers can request intros to any that seem like a good fit. We'll make the intro assuming the client opts in after…
Fractional jobs – part-time roles for engineers launched on August 18, 2025 with 281 votes, #116 of 8,530 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
In plain words
Fractional Jobs connects independent engineers with vetted part-time client roles. The platform helps engineers transition from full-time employment by handling client vetting and introductions. Engineers can browse available positions—including fractional CTO, AI, full-stack, frontend, and mobile roles—and request introductions to opportunities that match their skills. The service aims to simplify the client-finding process, which founder Taylor identified as the primary challenge when transitioning to independent work after a decade as a product manager.
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From the sources
Fractional Jobs helps startups hire fractional talent (part-time experts) across 10+ function areas including Marketing, Engineering, Design, Finance, etc. We've also got the Tools & Playbooks to help fractionals build their successful fractional practice
Find fractional work in your job function - Engineering | Marketing | Design | Sales | Finance | and more. We help senior talent become successful fractional operators, and we help companies reach and recruit that senior talent directly.
Fractional means part-time work, typically on a monthly retainer, performed by experts in theirfrom fractionaljobs.io
In the maker’s words, at launch
I'm Taylor, I spent about a year as a Fractional Head of Product. It was my first time not in a full-time W2 role, and I quickly learned that the hardest part of the job wasn't doing the Product work (I was a PM for 10+ years), it was finding good clients to work with. So I built Fractional Jobs. The goal is to help…
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