Head of Product Design

Lead, coach, and grow a cross-disciplinary design team spanning product design, research, and content/UX writing

Run the rituals, feedback culture, and career paths that make this a team people do their best work on

Set the design vision and strategy for Kindred, and align it tightly with company strategy as a key thought partner to product, engineering, marketing and operations

Champion member-centric thinking across the company, grounding decisions in both qualitative insight and quantitative data

Lean into strategic growth design: activation, conversion, and the loops that turn members into evangelists

Own the quality bar for the member experience, from big swings on new surfaces to the fit-and-finish details that make Kindred a design-forward and trusted platform

Build and scale the systems that let great design ship fast — design systems, tooling, rituals, and process that hold up as the team grows

Lead an AI-native design practice: set the standard for how the team uses AI across prototyping, research synthesis, and production, and evolve the workflow as the tools do

Partner deeply with marketing and brand to ensure product and brand operate as one system, from acquisition through the in-product experience

Have 12+ years in product design, including 5+ years leading and managing design teams

Have managed cross-functionally across product design, research, and content/writing, and know how to make those disciplines stronger together

Have a proven track record partnering with marketing and brand

Have deep experience with design systems: building them, scaling them, and using them to raise both quality and velocity

Have designed for trust between people (marketplaces, communities, or products where members take real-world leaps of faith)

Are AI-native and you have a point of view on how AI changes what a design team is and how it works

Are a strong operator: you run tight rituals, give sharp feedback, and build teams people want to stay on

Are a true player-coach, you still love the craft, and you ship work yourself when it counts

Have been the most senior design leader at a company, owning the function end-to-end (Head of Design, Director+, or equivalent)

You have experience with marketplace or community-driven consumer products

You've built or led both consumer and brand/marketing design work

You've shipped production features or internal tools built primarily with AI (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, or similar)

You've taken products from 0→1 and from 1→10 and know how the playbooks differ