Lead Product Designer

Ladder; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Ladder is seeking an experienced Product Design leader to shape the future of strength training through a highly polished mobile experience. You’ll own significant parts of the product, partner with engineering and product teams, and elevate design systems and research practices.

We are iOS-only, English-only, and fully remote for candidates in the US or Canada. The team values high agency, rapid iteration, and a strong focus on delivering real value to users who rely on our app daily.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product design on consumer mobile products.
• Experience shaping design systems and research practice.
• Strong mobile UX sensibility and ability to affect product strategy.

Responsibilities

• Own substantial parts of the product and drive design outcomes.
• Collaborate closely with engineering and product to elevate quality and consistency.
• Help evolve design systems and research practices to raise the bar for the product.

Skills

Product design

Mobile design

Design systems

Research

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

This role is 100% remote (as long as you're in US / Canada and can work PT - ET timezones).

We're hiring an experienced Product Design leader to help shape the future of strength training. As an app that the average user opens 3x a day and a finalist for Apple's App of the Year 2025, we feel deep responsibility to build intuitive, high-polish mobile experiences — not shiny UI for its own sake, but products people genuinely rely on to improve their real lives.

You'll own substantial parts of the product, partnering closely with engineering and product to elevate our design systems, research practice, and overall quality bar. We're looking for designers with deep mobile consumer experience, who are just as comfortable zooming out to help leadership solve big strategic questions "How do we make the app feel better the more it's used?" as they are delivering features that exceed user expectations. We're a team of 30, so there's no red tape — brilliant ideas come from every seat in the house and bringing them to life for our users quickly is our biggest secret weapon.

We're a profitable company with tens of millions in the bank, founders who are obsessive about unit economics, and a product philosophy grounded in delivering real value — not enshittified engagement loops or constant upsells. We're iOS-only, English-only, and relentlessly focused on experiences that redefine people's expectations for what an app on their phone can do.

• 100% remote friendly workplace (US / Canada, PT - ET timezones)
• 5+ years of product design on consumer mobile products preferred
• Passion for health & fitness is, of course, a plus
• High agency / start-up mindset is a must