Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. WeightWatchers is a global digital health company and the world’s #1 doctor-recommended, clinically studied behavioral weight health program. As a Principal Product Designer at Weight Watchers, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the design direction of our products and services and ensuring that our user experiences are intuitive, engaging, and aligned with our business goals.
Responsibilities
- Drive the Vision: Lead and drive the design vision for major product areas, aligning closely with Product and Engineering leadership to influence product strategy and prioritization
- Drive 0→1 Initiatives: Lead early-stage, ambiguous problem spaces by framing opportunities, defining foundational systems, and shaping first iterations of new experiences
- Strategic Influence: Serve as a trusted partner to executive stakeholders, advocating for best product practices and ensuring alignment with long-term business objectives
- Design System: In partnership with the design org, define and evolve a unified design system, ensuring consistency, accessibility, and visual quality across all platforms and products
- Complex Problem Solving: Translate business requirements, member needs and market understanding into clear strategy and intuitive, elegant experiences. Deliver high-quality interaction designs, prototypes, and visual systems
- Prototyping & Validation: Lead the way with AI experimentation and advanced tools to bring concepts to life, iterating and validating solutions through research, data, and user feedback
- Cross-Functional Alignment: Partner across EPD, Clinical teams, Research, and Marketing to ensure design decisions are technically feasible and strategically aligned
- Elevate Design and Product Maturity: Partner with Design and Product leadership to establish frameworks, standards, and documentation that mature the design practice at Weight Watchers
- Communication & Storytelling: Articulate design decisions and narratives clearly to stakeholders at all levels, creating alignment and driving accountability across the organization
- Level-up the practice: Mentor and coach designers across all levels, providing guidance on product strategy, craft excellence, and professional growth
- Cultivate Excellence: Model exceptional design practice and foster a culture of continuous learning, curiosity, and high-quality execution
Skills
- 12+ years of professional product design experience, with a proven track record of leading end-to-end design for complex, multi-product ecosystems in regulated environments
- Deep expertise in UX/UI design, interaction design, information architecture, and systems thinking
- Proficiency with modern design and prototyping tools
- Demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguity, connect design decisions to commercial outcomes, and influence product roadmaps through data-driven insights
- Exceptional communication and storytelling skills, with the confidence to influence at the executive level and drive alignment without formal authority
- Bachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Annual bonus program
- Hybrid work environment to allow our employees to find the right work-life balance
- Eligible employees are covered by worker's compensation insurance for work-related injuries or illness
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