Babylist is looking to shape the long-term experience strategy across Product Design, User Research, UX Content Design, and Design System to ensure user insight, research, and product judgment meaningfully influence how Babylist sets priorities, builds products, and plans for the future, guiding the vision for usability, accessibility, clarity, and experience quality across platforms and surfaces, and setting the direction for how Babylist integrates AI into user workflows.
Requirements
- 12+ years in product design
- 5+ years managing and developing design teams in a user-centered, product-driven environment.
- Strong product and user experience thinker applying clear judgment grounded in usability, accessibility, research, and real user insight.
- Broad design generalist with exposure to research, content design, or design systems as an added strength.
- Strategic problem solver comfortable shaping direction across complex product areas and multiple platforms.
- Practical AI partner with a working understanding of how AI can support workflows and user-facing experiences.
- Systems-minded operator focused on clarity, outcomes, and building structures that help teams work effectively.
Responsibilities
- Set and champion a multi-year user experience direction for Babylist, create a clear, inspiring vision for how registry, health, shopping, and content should evolve, grounded in user insight, research, and design judgment.
- Shape company-level planning with user insight and evidence bringing research, data, and clear user needs into executive decisions to prioritize the problems that matter most.
- Lead Babylist’s approach to AI-supported experiences setting the direction for how AI supports user workflows and decision-making through simple and intuitive interfaces.
- Set clear standards for usability, accessibility, and quality establishing expectations that improve clarity, consistency, and experience quality across platforms.
- Develop the strategic plan for Product Design and Research defining team structure, capacity, and long-term goals that align with company priorities.
- Build systems that support effective planning and decision making evolving current processes to support clear priorities, consistent alignment, and strong execution across teams.
- Establish mechanisms that measure experience quality tracking usability, user satisfaction, research insights, and design system adoption to create clear visibility for leaders and teams.
Other
- Clear communicator who collaborates effectively with Product, Engineering, and Marketing.
- User-centered leader motivated by supporting parents, gift givers, and growing families.
- Executive-ready partner able to influence decisions with evidence, research, and product insight.
- We meet in person twice a year—once as a company and once by department to strengthen the relationships that power our work.
- We show up consistently, stay purpose-driven, leverage AI to amplify our impact, and achieve results—together, from anywhere.
