Head of Product Design

Kindred

2d • $230,000 - $285,000 • Remote

About The Position

Kindred is looking for a Head of Product Design to lead our product design team through its next phase of growth. You'll own the end-to-end member experience across web and mobile, lead and grow the design and research team (currently a team of five), and work directly with cross-functional leaders to shape where the product goes next. This is a hands-on design leadership role reporting to the Co-founder & President. You'll set the vision, direct the team, and raise the bar. We’re looking for an AI-native leader to spend time prototyping and building alongside your team on the projects that matter most.

Requirements

• 12+ years in product design, including 5+ years leading and managing design teams
• Managed cross-functionally across product design, research, and content/writing, and know how to make those disciplines stronger together
• Proven track record partnering with marketing and brand
• Deep experience with design systems: building them, scaling them, and using them to raise both quality and velocity
• Designed for trust between people (marketplaces, communities, or products where members take real-world leaps of faith)
• AI-native and you have a point of view on how AI changes what a design team is and how it works
• Strong operator: you run tight rituals, give sharp feedback, and build teams people want to stay on
• True player-coach, you still love the craft, and you ship work yourself when it counts

Nice To Haves

• Been the most senior design leader at a company, owning the function end-to-end (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 (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, or similar)
• Taken products from 0→1 and from 1→10 and know how the playbooks differ

Responsibilities

• 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

Benefits

• Competitive cash compensation and equity
• Comprehensive health benefits
• Flexible time off, plus 12 paid holidays per year
• 21 credits per year to stay in Kindred homes
• $4,000 annual travel stipend to help offset travel-related costs
• Remote-first and remote-flexible work environment, with opportunities to work from anywhere and gather in person, including at Kindred HQ in San Francisco
• Regular team and company offsites to connect, collaborate, and build together
• A vibrant, inclusive, and highly skilled team that ferociously protects team chemistry
• A culture of high standards, feedback, and continual growth

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed