Staff Product Designer (Core)

Whoop • Boston, MA

2d • Onsite

About The Position

At WHOOP, we're on a mission to unlock human performance and extend healthspan. WHOOP empowers members to perform at a higher level through a deeper understanding of their bodies and daily lives. WHOOP is hiring a Staff Product Designer to lead high-impact product design work across complex, evolving areas of the product. The Core team focuses on foundational member experiences such as sleep, strain, recovery, and fitness, as well as adjacent opportunities that deepen members’ understanding of their health and performance. This is a senior individual contributor role focused on driving end-to-end design strategy and execution, shaping product direction, and elevating the quality of experiences across systems, including AI-powered capabilities.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in product design, with a strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end ownership of shipped work
• Deep expertise in UX and interaction design, with experience simplifying complex systems into clear, intuitive experiences
• Strong product thinking and decision-making skills, with the ability to evaluate tradeoffs and connect design work to user and business impact
• Experience collaborating cross-functionally with product, engineering, and research to deliver impactful product outcomes
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders and drive alignment
• Experience mentoring or supporting the growth of other designers through feedback, critique, or formal leadership
• Experience designing for data-rich or AI-driven products is preferred
• Passion for health, fitness, or helping people better understand and improve their bodies
• Strong commitment to embracing and leveraging AI tools in day-to-day tasks, ensuring AI-assisted work aligns with the same high-quality standards as personal contributions.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive design work across a product area or set of initiatives, leading projects from problem framing through execution and delivery
• Apply strong UX judgment to complex problem spaces, structuring ambiguity and making clear, principled decisions about flows, tradeoffs, and overall experience
• Translate complex systems, including AI-driven capabilities, into scalable interaction patterns, workflows, and intuitive user experiences
• Partner closely with product managers, engineers, researchers, and data scientists to deliver high-impact projects from concept through launch
• Work across teams and stakeholders to clearly communicate, advocate for, and align on design decisions and direction
• Contribute directly to design execution, with a focus on interaction design and overall experience quality, while maintaining a high bar for visual polish
• Provide structured, actionable feedback through critiques and day-to-day collaboration, and transition into managing and mentoring designers over time

Benefits

• meaningful equity
• competitive base salaries
• generous equity package

What This Job Offers

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