Lead, Product Designer

MyFitnessPal; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401(k) plan and match

Annual performance bonus

Remote work flexibility

Monthly wellness allowance

Job summary

A health and wellness company is seeking a Lead Product Designer to enhance user experiences through collaborative design and strategy. The ideal candidate will lead the reimagining of key product interactions, mentor design teams, and drive research-informed decisions. Required are 6-8 years in digital product design and a strong portfolio. This role offers a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package.

Qualifications

• 6-8+ years in consumer-facing digital product design (mobile + web).
• Portfolio shows key ownership, impactful designs, and improved metrics.
• Experience designing and running learning plans and experimenting.

Responsibilities

• Lead the reimagining of the product’s front door experience.
• Design strategy aligning with multiple teams for optimal outcomes.
• Facilitate alignment across teams through decision forums.

Skills

Consumer-facing digital product design

Systems and interaction design

Excellent communication

Mentorship

Figma

Education

Degree in Design, HCI, or related field

Tools

Modern prototyping tools

Job description

Lead, Product Designer

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At MyFitnessPal, we believe good health starts with what you eat. We provide tools, resources and support to enable users to reach their health goals.

The MyFitnessPal Design Team fosters an experience‑first culture, crafting intuitive user journeys that empower healthier lives. Collaborating across teams, we transform user insights into innovative, impactful designs for mobile and web platforms. We advocate for our users to shape meaningful experiences that make health and fitness more accessible and rewarding.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead the reimagining of MyFitnessPal’s front door—the daily starting point that ties our most critical experiences together.
• Influence the vision and design strategy for the entry experience, aligning outcomes and success signals with Product, Engineering, Research, Data Science, and Content Design.
• Turn that direction into staged designs and phased experiments, shaping the hypotheses and success metrics while balancing speed and quality.
• Explore widely, then converge with narrative prototypes and lightweight experiments; pressure‑test assumptions and synthesize learnings into a clear direction.
• Connect the ecosystem: design how guidance, logging, insights, and motivation come together so members feel progress from first touch.
• Lead with research and data: shape learning plans, run qualitative and quantitative studies, and instrument experiments that move engagement, retention, and subscriptions.
• Create scalable frameworks and patterns that raise consistency and quality across iOS, Android, and web while advancing our design system and accessibility.
• Anticipate dependencies and risks across squads; make trade‑offs transparent and adjust plans as evidence emerges.
• Facilitate alignment at scale: drive critiques, working sessions, and decision forums that keep multiple teams moving in the same direction.
• Mentor designers through coaching and modeling strong craft and storytelling; help establish rituals that improve collaboration and speed.

Qualifications To Be Successful In This Role

• 6‑8+ years in consumer‑facing digital product design (mobile + web) with deep systems and interaction design expertise.
• Portfolio shows domain‑level ownership, cross‑team impact, scalable frameworks, and shipped work that improved business metrics at scale.
• Demonstrated ability to design and run learning plans (qual + quant), instrument experiments, and connect decisions to measurable outcomes (engagement, retention, subscriptions).
• Proven track record of shaping cross‑functional strategy, influencing roadmaps, and resolving ambiguous problems with clear, evidence‑based direction.
• Excellent communicator: clear narratives, strong documentation, and the ability to guide leaders through complex decisions.
• Mentorship experience: leveling up designers through critique, coaching, and modeling best‑in‑class craft and storytelling.
• Fluent in Figma and modern prototyping tools with strong collaboration and file hygiene practices.
• Experience designing for iOS, Android, and responsive web; accessibility‑minded.
• Comfortable in agile development with Product and Engineering; has partnered deeply with Content Design, Research, Data Science, and Legal/Compliance.
• Degree in Design, HCI, or related field—or equivalent practical experience.

Bonus points

• Practice using AI in the design process (e.g., research synthesis, ideation, prototyping, content, QA).
• Experience in health, wellness, or behavior‑change products.

Values you’ll model

• Be Kind and Care — build with empathy; assume positive intent; support teammates and members.
• Live Good Health — champion healthy habits and balance in how we work and what we ship.
• Be Data‑Inspired — ground decisions in research and data; measure what matters.
• Champion Change — lean into ambiguity; iterate, learn, and improve continuously.
• Leave it Better than You Found It — raise quality, clarify systems, and document as you go.
• Make It Happen — bias to action; deliver impact with craft and accountability.

Note

To be considered, you must provide a link to an online portfolio (please include password).

Salary

Estimated salary for this role at MyFitnessPal ranges from $140,000 - $195,000. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate’s skills, qualifications, and experience.

Benefits and Perks

MyFitnessPal offers a wide range of comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits including healthcare, parental planning, mental health benefits, annual performance bonus, a 401(k) plan and match, responsible time off, monthly wellness and technology allowances, and others. Face‑to‑face connections, flexibility with responsible time off, give‑back days, mentorship program, family‑friendly support, monthly wellness allowance, reward and recognition platform, access to MyFitnessPal Premium, virtual learning library, DEI initiatives, medical/dental/vision benefits, and retirement savings program.

At MyFitnessPal, our mission is to enable people to make healthy choices. We celebrate the diverse perspectives each person brings and foster a collaborative and inclusive environment. As an equal‑opportunity employer, we prohibit any unlawful discrimination on the basis of race, religion, military or veteran status, sex, gender, marital status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, or disability. These guiding ideologies apply across all aspects of employment.

MyFitnessPal participates in E-Verify.