At MyFitnessPal, our vision is to be the most trusted brand for improving your health through better food choices. We believe good health starts with what you eat. We provide the tools and resources to reach your weight management goals.

We are looking for a Director of Product Design to lead core strategic areas of the product and growth!

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. Driven by a deep understanding of our users, we advocate for their needs to shape meaningful experiences that make health and fitness more accessible and rewarding.

What you’ll be doing:

You will be responsible for providing leadership, strategic direction, and driving design quality for a team of talented Product Designers. In this role, you will be a key member of a cross-functional leadership team, working together with your counterparts in Product Management and Engineering to guide the team to build products that address real customer needs. You will serve as a thought leader and partner, both internally and externally, championing design as a catalyst for strategic growth.

• Transform ambiguity into clarity, leveraging your expertise and design process to establish structure. You proactively plan, anticipate challenges, and envision the next steps, even when they’re not immediately clear.
• Inspire and lead, driving innovation, exploration, and a high-performance mindset while fostering continuous learning, curiosity, and a sense of urgency in delivering transformative results
• Think strategically, framing designs within the broader customer experience, while also being adept at diving into detailed execution.
• Gain alignment bysharingwork to stakeholders and executive leaders, facilitating review and gathering feedback. 
• Act as a strategic partner, collaborating across departments to ensure design aligns seamlessly across the holistic user experience

Qualifications to be successful in this role: 

• 10+ years of experience in Product Design with at least 5+ years of leadership experience with direct reports under your guidance and leadership, including hiring and developing talent
• Demonstrated experience leading high-velocity Design teams to have meaningful impact on the customer and the business
• Extensive experience leading consumer-facing Product Design design teams focused on native iOS and Android apps
• Ability to create design direction and processes that balance small design iterations with larger experience changes to improve the end-to-end experience and achieve goals
• A strong bias-to-action to address challenges, build and test products, and learn from failures and successes
• Analytical approach to Design work, incorporating qualitative and quantitative insights to inform decision making and measure outcomes
• Strong written, verbal, and visual communication skills

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

Please consider applying even if you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications. Research shows you can still be considered for a position if you meet some of the requirements. At MyFitnessPal, we’re building a fitness product for everyone and believe our team should reflect that. We encourage people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives to apply.

The reasonably estimated salary for this role at MyFitnessPal ranges from $180,000 - $230,000. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate’s skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, MyFitnessPal offers a wide range of comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role 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.