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Lead Product Designer - Web
Somethings 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead the design of the Mentor Operations Platform to create a world-class web experience for mentors and staff. Own the entire design process from research and prototyping to shipping polished, human-centered tools for teen mental health support.
Responsibilities
- Take full ownership of core missions tied directly to our 2026 strategy
- Elevate our Mentor Operations Platform from functional to world-class
- Lead design of the web experience that mentors and ops staff rely on every day
- Elevate the web experience from 'functional and fragmented' to cohesive, elegant, and industry-leading
- Design for reliability, clarity, and calm — experiences that help mentors focus on their teens, not wrestle with their tools
- Sweat every detail: typography, empty states, motion, micro-interactions
- Design tools that safely scale our mentor operation
- Create mentor-facing tools that increase connection, clarity, and confidence
- Build safety surfaces that help identify risk without feeling clinical or cold
- Simplify complex workflows into elegant, calm product experiences
- Ensure mentors feel empowered by our tools, not burdened by them
- Make our teen × mentor experiences magical
- Design experiences that feel warm, safe, fast, and deeply human
- Infuse emotional intelligence into every interaction — designing for belonging, confidence, and care, not just usability
- Define the future of teen-centered mental healthcare tools for mentors and clinical partners — simple, ethical, and trusted
- Own the design process end to end
- Lead UX research with teens, mentors, and parents
- Turn messy problem spaces into clear direction and beautiful product
- Design flows, prototypes, design systems, and polished UI
- Partner closely with product, engineering, clinical ops, and growth
- Work directly with engineers through delivery to ensure craft survives shipping
Requirements
- 5+ years of product design experience shipping real products
- A portfolio that shows end-to-end thinking: insight → UX → beautiful UI
- Deep experience designing complex web products — you understand responsive systems, interaction states, accessibility, and what it takes to make web experiences feel as polished as the best consumer apps
- You love designing with AI tools like claude/cursor/other vibe coding tools
- Mobile design experience is a plus
- You care about craft — typography, microcopy, motion, states, feel
- You are research-minded and excited to talk with real users
- You're a clear, thoughtful, direct communicator
- You operate autonomously and create clarity for others with incomplete information
Benefits
- The annual salary range for this position is $160,000 - $220,000
- Significant equity compensation, reflecting your foundational role and impact
- Comprehensive health insurance coverage
- Significant work ownership and autonomy
- Unlimited days off
Key Skills
About Somethings
Somethings is a social wellness platform for teens, backed by General Catalyst and world-class healthcare + consumer investors. They're growing rapidly and looking for a Lead Product Designer to own the design of their Mentor Operations Platform.
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