Head of Product Design

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🕒 July 30

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $230k - $285k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🎨 Product Designer (UI/UX)

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Kindred

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1 - 10 employees

Founded 2016

🏨 Hospitality

🏪 Marketplace

✈️ Travel

Hospitality • Marketplace • Travel

Kindred is a members-only home exchange community where people can swap homes and travel freely. The platform allows members to stay up to five nights in a partner's home before they reciprocate hosting. The service is open to both renters and homeowners who have well-cared-for homes in cities like New York, London, Paris, and many others across North America and Europe. Members earn travel credits by hosting others or referring friends, and they pay only a cleaning and service fee per trip, with no nightly fees or membership fees required. Kindred provides a community-driven approach to travel, offering a lower-cost alternative to traditional hotels or vacation rentals, while fostering connections among homeowners and travelers.

📋 Description

• 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 • 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 • 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 • Partner deeply with marketing and brand to ensure product and brand operate as one system, from acquisition through the in-product experience

🎯 Requirements

• Have 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

🏖️ 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