# Head of Product Design

**Company:** [Kindred](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/kindred)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Product Design
**Salary:** $230k – $285k/yr
**Experience:** 12+ years
**Skills:** Product Design, Design Systems, User Research, ux writing, ai prototyping, design leadership, growth design, marketplace design, brand design, Figma, Claude, Cursor
**Posted:** 2026-07-30

> Lead and grow Kindred's product design, research, and UX writing team as a hands-on Head of Product Design. Set design vision and strategy for the home-swapping marketplace, raise the quality bar, champion member-centric and AI-native practices, and partner closely with marketing, product, and engineering leadership.

## Job Description

## What you'll do

### People & team leader
- 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

### Strategy leader
- 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

### Craft bar raiser
- 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

### Brand & trust steward
- Partner deeply with marketing and brand to ensure product and brand operate as one system, from acquisition through the in-product experience

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

## Nice-to-haves
- Have been the most senior design leader at a company, owning the function end-to-end (Head of Design, Director+, or equivalent)
- You have experience with marketplace or community-driven consumer products
- You've built or led both consumer and brand/marketing design work
- You've shipped production features or internal tools built primarily with AI (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, or similar)
- You've taken products from 0→1 and from 1→10 and know how the playbooks differ

## 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

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