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Lead Product Designer, Growth

Constant Contact • Waltham, United States of America 🇺🇸

Hybrid $127,600 - $159,500 Full-time Lead

A Lead Product Designer role at Constant Contact to drive new customer acquisition and build solutions for new customer groups, focusing on user experience and design strategy.

Responsibilities

  • Design for the full journey: Own critical flows like onboarding, activation, and trial-to-paid conversion, while ensuring experiences connect across marketing, product, and support
  • Drive experience strategy & vision: Partner with product, engineering, marketing, and business leaders to define and align on customer-centered growth strategies that balance user delight and business outcomes
  • Influence through strategy: Collaborate with cross-functional and senior leaders to advocate for customer-centered thinking, guiding decisions that drive acquisition, engagement, and retention
  • Lead co-creation: Facilitate workshops and co-creation sessions to define experience strategies, journey maps, and service blueprints that connect the customer experience end to end
  • Connect the ecosystem: Work closely with marketing, sales, and support to ensure seamless, cohesive experiences across every touchpoint—from first impression to long-term success
  • Leverage insights & experimentation: Use conversation data, behavioral analytics, and experimentation to uncover opportunities, measure impact, and continuously refine the user experience
  • Set and scale experience standards: Lead best practices in experience design across the organization, establishing systems, patterns, and principles that scale with us
  • Map and optimize experiences: Use journey mapping, service blueprinting, and systems thinking to identify opportunities, close gaps, and improve end-to-end consistency
  • Prototype & validate: Rapidly create and test concepts in Figma and other tools, leveraging AI where valuable
  • Validate solutions through user research, usability testing, and experimentation
  • Mentor & uplift: Provide coaching, feedback, and thought leadership to elevate the design team's craft and impact
  • Measure & refine: Partner with product and research to define success metrics, run post-launch evaluations, and iterate for impact
  • Shape the design culture: Help grow a supportive, curious, and ambitious team of designers who care deeply about our users
  • Envision AI Integration: Champion and integrate a vision for how AI can be infused into end-to-end experience design, exploring and leveraging AI tools to enhance design processes and customer outcomes

Requirements

  • 8+ years in product or UX design, with a portfolio that demonstrates impact on both digital product flows and multi-touchpoint experiences
  • End-to-End Thinker: Skilled at zooming out to see the system and zooming in to polish the details
  • Influential Partner: Confident in engaging senior leaders and cross-functional peers to drive alignment and advocate for design-led, customer-centered growth
  • Strategic & Analytical: Strong in problem framing, synthesizing complex research, and turning insights into clear opportunities
  • Research-Driven: Experienced with generative and evaluative methods, and adept at translating findings into design direction
  • Prototyping Expert: Highly proficient in Figma and prototyping platforms; comfortable exploring AI-enabled tools
  • Storyteller & Facilitator: Able to align executives, PMs, engineers, and marketers through clear storytelling and collaborative workshops
  • Mentor & Culture Builder: Experienced in coaching designers and raising the design bar across an organization
  • Collaborative & Empathetic: A strong partner who balances customer needs with business and technical constraints
  • Comfortable with Ambiguity: Brings clarity, cohesion, and momentum in complex, evolving environments
  • Experience in SaaS or product-led growth environments (nice to have)
  • Familiarity with experimentation frameworks (A/B testing, multivariate testing) (nice to have)
  • Contribution to or governance of a design system (nice to have)
  • Experience designing for retention, engagement, and lifecycle experiences (nice to have)

Key Skills

  • Product Design
  • UX Design
  • Design Thinking
  • User Research
  • Collaboration
  • Communication
  • Leadership
  • Strategic Thinking
  • Analytical Skills
  • Research Methods
  • Prototyping
  • Storytelling
  • Facilitation
  • Mentoring
  • Culture Building
  • Empathy
  • Ambiguity Management
  • SaaS
  • Product-Led Growth
  • Experimentation Frameworks
  • Design Systems
  • Retention
  • Engagement
  • Lifecycle Experiences
  • AI Integration

Benefits

  • Health and welfare benefits including paid leave
  • Generous paid time off policy
  • Competitive benefits package that supports the health and well-being of you and your family
  • Opportunities to grow your career
  • Diversity and inclusion culture
  • Educational opportunities for all employees
  • Work flexibility and hybrid work model

About Constant Contact

Constant Contact is a software company that provides tools and support to help business owners, entrepreneurs, non-profits, and individuals grow online, with a focus on design, product, and user experience.

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