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— Robin Mathew
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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