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.
This is a senior IC role for a designer who thrives in complexity and ambiguity, owns large problem spaces end-to-end, and leads through influence, judgment, and considered product thinking. You will act as a strategic partner from product discovery and planning to execution and launch, helping to establish what excellence looks like for both the design organization and the wider enterprise systems.
ResponsibilitiesDesign Leadership & Strategy- 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 01 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.
Craft & Execution- 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.
Collaboration & Practice Building- 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.
Mentorship & Culture- 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.
What You Bring to the role:- Experience: 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
- Mastery of Craft: Deep expertise in UX/UI design, interaction design, information architecture, and systems thinking.
- Prototyping Skills: Proficiency with modern design and prototyping tools
- Strategic Mindset: Demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguity, connect design decisions to commercial outcomes, and influence product roadmaps through data-driven insights.
- Leadership Presence: Exceptional communication and storytelling skills, with the confidence to influence at the executive level and drive alignment without formal authority.
- Education: Bachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Base salary may vary depending on, but not limited to: skills, experience, and location. This role is also eligible for a comprehensive benefits package and annual bonus program.
US Pay Range
$180,000-$215,000 USD
At WeightWatchers, our mission is to build a worldwide community connected by healthy habits. If that resonates with you, then we would love to talk. WeightWatchers values developing community within our employee population as well. We have a hybrid work environment to allow our employees to find the right work-life balance.
