What is your definition of this role? Product designer could be anything from a web designer to mechanical engineer to business development focused. What’s the key thing you need this role to do?<p>In general if you care about your product hiring based on lowest cost bidder isn’t smart. I get cost is always a factor but race to the bottom sites like upwork are generally not the place to start. With some exceptions.<p>Last point if you don’t have super solid and thorough requirements documentation already then avoid using someone in too different a time zone or culturally so you don’t lose time in translation or time zone waiting. There are awesome people all over the world it isn’t a talent situation but a communication one to avoid a learning curve on what can be such an important role.<p>Edit: contractor is totally fine and very common.