Head of Product Design

The role

You will lead the product design team and own the end-to-end member experience across web and mobile. You will set design vision, manage a cross-disciplinary team, and work with cross-functional leaders to shape product direction.

What you will do

• Lead, coach, and grow a cross-disciplinary design team
• Run rituals, feedback culture, and career paths
• Set the design vision and strategy for Kindred
• Align design with product, engineering, marketing and operations
• Champion member-centric thinking using qualitative and quantitative data
• Focus on strategic growth design including activation and conversion
• Own the quality bar for the member experience
• Build and scale design systems, tooling, rituals, and process
• Lead an AI-native design practice
• Partner with marketing and brand to ensure product and brand operate as one system

Required qualifications

• 12+ years in product design
• 5+ years leading and managing design teams
• Managed cross-functionally across product design, research, and content/writing
• Proven track record partnering with marketing and brand
• Deep experience with design systems
• Designed for trust between people
• AI-native with a point of view on how AI changes a design team
• Strong operator who runs tight rituals and gives sharp feedback
• Player-coach who ships work personally

Nice to have

• Been the most senior design leader at a company (Head of Design, Director+, or equivalent)
• Experience with marketplace or community-driven consumer products
• Built or led both consumer and brand/marketing design work
• Shipped production features or internal tools built primarily with AI
• Taken products from 0 to 1 and 1 to 10

Benefits

• Competitive cash compensation and equity
• Comprehensive health benefits
• Flexible time off
• 12 paid holidays per year
• 21 credits per year to stay in Kindred homes
• $4,000 annual travel stipend
• Remote-first and remote-flexible work environment
• Regular team and company offsites

About the company

Kindred is a members-only home swapping platform that unlocks the ability to live a travel-rich lifestyle through the power of community. The company has raised over $150M in capital from investors in Silicon Valley.