Lead Product Designer

Klaviyo Klaviyo · Enterprise · Boston, MA · Design

Lead Product Designer at Klaviyo, focusing on setting design direction, shaping product strategy, and driving user experiences. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, leading complex initiatives, creating design flows, facilitating critiques, and driving process improvements. A key aspect is transforming workflows by integrating AI to build smarter systems and ways of working, requiring the candidate to have experimented with AI and be eager to learn and apply new AI tools responsibly.

What you'd actually do

  1. Partner with cross-functional teams to get design projects prioritized, shipped, and delivering measurable results.
  2. Lead and coordinate multiple complex initiatives simultaneously.
  3. Create design flows, prototypes, sketches, and polished UI.
  4. Facilitate design critiques and provide constructive feedback as a design leader.
  5. Drive process improvements across the design lifecycle.

Skills

Required

  • 8+ years of professional product design experience.
  • A strong portfolio that demonstrates end-to-end design work — from defining problems and audiences through product adoption and iteration.
  • Experience driving product growth through experimentation, data-informed design, and continuous iteration.
  • Ability to collaborate effectively in a fast-paced environment and bring cross-functional teams together.
  • A systems-thinking mindset, able to identify and design for common components and scalable patterns.
  • Comfort taking a unique or even unpopular perspective and facilitating productive discussions toward alignment.
  • A growth mindset, adaptability, and strong problem-solving skills.

Nice to have

  • You’ve already experimented with AI in work or personal projects, and you’re excited to dive in and learn fast. You’re hungry to responsibly explore new AI tools and workflows, finding ways to make your work smarter and more efficient.

What the JD emphasized

  • AI fluency at Klaviyo includes responsible use of AI (including privacy, security, bias