Lead Product Designer

This is a remote position.

• The visual and experiential design of all physical products setting and enforcing a design standard that is genuinely world-class. Every book every page every cover every insert should feel like it was made by a company that cares deeply about the person holding it.
  
• Product usability and information design making dense health information accessible scannable and actionable for an older demographic. This means smart use of typography hierarchy illustration color and layout to guide people through content without overwhelming them. You understand that design is not decoration it is communication.
  
• Design system and brand visual language building a cohesive design system across our product line so that every new product feels like it belongs to the same family. As we expand into new health conditions and product formats visual consistency and quality need to scale with us.
  
• Cover and packaging design the first impression matters enormously in our business. You own the visual impact of our products from the moment a customer sees an ad to the moment they open the package. Covers need to feel premium trustworthy and compelling.
  
• Illustration and visual asset direction whether working with illustrators AI tools or producing assets yourself you ensure that every visual element in the product serves a purpose. Illustrations should educate not just decorate. Diagrams should clarify not confuse.
  
• Collaboration with the content team working closely with writers and researchers to ensure that the content and design evolve together not in isolation. You push back when content is not structured in a way that supports good design and you adapt your design when the content demands it.
  
• Creative input on new product formats as we explore digital companions apps and new physical formats beyond books you bring a design perspective to what these products should feel and look like. You think about the full customer experience not just the page.
  
• Raising the standard of the entire team you are the person who sets the bar. Junior designers editors and contractors look to your work and your feedback to understand what great looks like here. You mentor review and elevate.
  

• You have a portfolio that demonstrates genuinely exceptional design work for physical or information products books magazines packaging editorial or consumer products. We want to see work that makes us stop and look twice.
  
• You deeply understand information design and typography. You know how to take complex content and make it feel simple inviting and easy to follow. You have designed for audiences who are not young not tech-native and not design-literate and you made it work beautifully.
  
• You obsess over details spacing alignment color relationships paper texture print quality. You care about things most people would not notice because you know that the sum of those details is what separates a good product from one people love.
  
• You understand that design must serve the customers problem not the designers ego. You can explain why every design choice helps the person use the product better trust the information more or take action more easily. Beautiful but impractical does not interest you.
  
• You have experience designing for print production you understand CMYK bleed binding constraints paper weight and how design translates from screen to physical product. You have shipped real physical products and dealt with the constraints that come with manufacturing.
  
• You are versatile across illustration layout typography and brand design. You may not be the worlds best illustrator but you can direct illustration work produce strong visual assets and integrate diverse visual elements into a cohesive product.
  
• You are comfortable with AI design tools and eager to push them further. We are an AI-forward company and expect senior team members to leverage these tools to move faster and explore more possibilities while maintaining the quality bar.
  
• You are a self-directed creative who thrives with high autonomy. You do not need to be told what good looks like you already know and you push the team toward it.
  

• Experience designing for health wellness or educational content you understand the balance between credibility and accessibility.
  
• Background in editorial design publishing or information-dense product design at scale.
  
• Experience designing for an older demographic (50) you understand readability visual hierarchy and trust signals that matter to this audience.
  
• Illustration skills hand-drawn digital or AI-assisted that can add warmth and clarity to health content.
  
• Experience with packaging design and unboxing experiences for physical consumer products.
  
• Familiarity with design for digital products (apps interactive guides) in addition to physical as we expand into these formats.
  
• Experience building and maintaining design systems across a growing product line.
  

• You complete a thorough audit of our current product design books covers packaging digital assets and present a clear honest assessment of where we are versus where we need to be with a prioritized roadmap for getting there.
  
• The next product release shows a visible step-change in design quality not a total overhaul but a clear signal that the standard has been raised. People inside the company and customers should notice the difference.
  
• You have established a strong working relationship with the content team design and content are being developed together rather than design being applied after the fact.
  
• A coherent design system is taking shape foundational decisions about typography color illustration style and layout patterns that will scale across future products.
  
• You have identified where AI tools new processes or additional resources can accelerate design quality and output and progress is underway on at least one of these.
  
• The product team and leadership feel the impact there is a new level of design thinking and intentionality in how we approach every product decision.
  

1. Your portfolio we want to see physical or information product design work that demonstrates exceptional craft and intentionality. Show us your best work and tell us why it worked.
   
2. How you approach designing for a non-technical older audience what principles guide you when the user is not a designer.
   
3. An example of a product where your design directly improved usability or customer outcomes not just aesthetics.
   
4. How you think about balancing beauty with practicality in information-dense products.
   
5. Compensation expectations.