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Lead Product Designer - Mobile

Somethings πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ New York, New York, United States of America

Hybrid $160,000 - $220,000 Full-time Senior

Lead the end-to-end design of mobile experiences for teens and mentors on a social wellness platform. This player-coach role involves conducting UX research, building design systems, and creating AI-supported tools to scale mentorship.

Responsibilities

  • Take full ownership of core missions tied directly to our 2026 strategy
  • Make our teen Γ— mentor experiences magical
  • Design mobile experiences that feel warm, safe, fast, and deeply human
  • Own and elevate the native mobile experience β€” making it joyful, reliable, and a delight to use
  • Define the future of teen-centered mental healthcare tools for mentors and clinical partners β€” simple, ethical, and trusted
  • Infuse emotional intelligence into every interaction β€” designing for belonging, confidence, and care, not just usability
  • 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
  • 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 β†’ UX β†’ beautiful UI
  • Deep experience designing mobile consumer or social products β€” native iOS and/or Android
  • Experience with React Native, Swift UI, or mobile front-end development
  • You care about craft β€” typography, microcopy, motion, states, feel
  • You are research-minded and excited to talk with real users
  • You're a clear, thoughtful, direct communicator
  • You've lead a team of designers before and love being both an IC and also a leader

Benefits

  • The annual salary range for this position is $140,000 - $210,000
  • Significant equity compensation, reflecting your foundational role and impact
  • Comprehensive health insurance coverage
  • Significant work ownership and autonomy
  • Unlimited days off

Key Skills

Product design UX design UI design Mobile design Interaction design Native iOS Android React Native Swift UI Mobile front-end development Craft Typography Microcopy Motion States Feel Research-minded Communication Autonomy Clarity Emotional intelligence User experience User research Design systems Polished UI Collaboration Cross-functional collaboration Design thinking User-centered design Agile Scrum Design leadership

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 with a heavy mobile focus to join their small, high-ownership product team.

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