Principal Product Designer

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

Requirements:

• 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