Senior Product Designer at Everyday Health

📍 Job Overview

Job Title: Senior Product Designer

Company: Everyday Health - Consumer

Location: New York, New York, United States

Job Type: Full-Time

Category: Product Design / UX/UI

Date Posted: July 20, 2026

Experience Level: 5-10 Years

Remote Status: On-site

🚀 Role Summary

Strategic Design Ownership: Lead the end-to-end design process for a diverse portfolio of consumer brands, encompassing health and wellness content, lifestyle, and subscription products.
AI-Augmented Workflow: Leverage advanced AI design and research tools as an integral part of the daily workflow to accelerate ideation, prototyping, and user insights synthesis, while applying critical editorial judgment.
Systems Thinking & Design Leadership: Drive design strategy by thinking in interconnected systems rather than isolated screens, ensuring consistency and adaptability across multiple platforms and audience segments.
Problem Framing & User Advocacy: Proactively identify and frame design problems, translate business objectives into testable design questions, and champion user needs in cross-functional collaborations.

📝 Enhancement Note: This role is explicitly framed around leveraging AI as a core component of the design process, shifting the focus from asset production to strategic problem-solving and judgment. The candidate must demonstrate a sophisticated understanding of how to integrate AI tools to enhance, not replace, human-led design thinking and decision-making.

📈 Primary Responsibilities

Own the complete product design lifecycle for Everyday Health Group's portfolio of consumer-facing digital platforms, including web and mobile applications, from initial problem articulation and user research through to the delivery of polished user experiences.
Explore and present multiple design directions for complex problems, often looking beyond the immediate roadmap to propose innovative product or brand evolutions based on strategic insights.
Utilize AI tools for rapid generation of design options, wireframes, and prototypes, critically evaluating and refining AI-generated outputs to ensure they meet user needs and business objectives.
Employ AI-driven analysis of user testing sessions and qualitative data to identify patterns and derive actionable insights, translating these findings into informed design decisions.
Accelerate early-stage research activities, including requirements gathering, competitive analysis, and stakeholder feedback synthesis, using AI tools to efficiently surface key information for strategic evaluation.
Design responsive and adaptive user interfaces that perform optimally across various devices and screen sizes, with a strong emphasis on mobile-first principles.
Translate high-level business goals, such as improving user retention or reducing conversion drop-off, into concrete, measurable, and testable design hypotheses and solutions.
Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including Product Management, Engineering, Editorial, Analytics, and Sales/Ad Operations, to ensure a holistic understanding of project scope and user needs before commencing design work.
Apply systems thinking to understand and design for the interconnectedness of user flows, edge cases, and the impact of design changes across the entire product ecosystem and its downstream platforms.
Articulate and present design rationale clearly and persuasively to diverse stakeholder groups, including technical teams and senior leadership, tailoring communication to resonate with each audience.
Act as a strong advocate for the end-user, identifying potential disconnects between intended feature functionality and actual user impact and raising these concerns proactively.
Contribute to the development, maintenance, and evolution of design systems, ensuring visual and interactive consistency across multiple brands while enabling efficient iteration.
Directly manage and extend design system components, including working with shared variables and tokens to ensure seamless propagation of updates across all associated brands.
Engage in constructive design critique sessions, providing and receiving direct feedback within a senior-level design team environment.

📝 Enhancement Note: The responsibilities highlight a significant emphasis on strategic thinking, problem definition, and the judicious application of AI tools. The role requires a designer who can not only execute but also influence product direction and critically assess AI outputs, demonstrating strong editorial judgment.

🎓 Skills & Qualifications

Education: Bachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Experience:

Minimum of 5 years of professional experience as a Product Designer, with a proven track record in designing digital consumer platforms, including websites, mobile applications, and newsletters.
Demonstrated experience in a senior or lead design capacity, implying mentorship and strategic influence.
Experience working within agile development methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban. Required Skills:
Portfolio Excellence: A robust portfolio showcasing deep design thinking, problem-solving processes, and the reasoning behind design decisions, rather than just final polished mockups. Emphasis on demonstrating the journey from initial ambiguity to a well-reasoned solution.
Figma Proficiency: Strong command of Figma, including advanced capabilities such as working with variables, tokens, and maintaining/extending design systems.
AI Design & Research Tool Fluency: Daily, practical experience with AI tools for design generation (e.g., Figma Make), prototyping, user research analysis (e.g., Claude for synthesis), and competitive analysis. The expectation is that AI is a core workflow component, not an experimental addition.
Systems Thinking: Ability to conceptualize and design holistic user experiences that consider the interconnectedness of various product components and their impact across different brands and platforms.
User Research & Testing: Proven ability to conduct user research, analyze findings (including AI-assisted synthesis), and translate them into actionable product decisions under time pressure.
Problem Framing: Skill in defining ambiguous problems, asking critical questions, and translating business objectives into clear design challenges.
Cross-functional Collaboration: Experience partnering effectively with Product Managers, Engineers, Editorial teams, Analytics, and Sales/Ad Operations.
Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex design concepts and rationale to diverse audiences, including non-designers and senior leadership.
Mobile-First Design: Strong understanding and application of mobile-first design principles and responsive design techniques.
Accessibility Standards: Working knowledge of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and experience designing for diverse user abilities.

Preferred Skills:

Experience designing for multiple brands or products with distinct audiences within a unified design system.
Background in health, wellness, or other regulated/trust-sensitive consumer industries.
Experience designing for both editorial content and commerce/monetization surfaces.
Experience mentoring junior or mid-level designers.
Familiarity with advanced prototyping and motion design tools.

📝 Enhancement Note: The qualifications emphasize a forward-thinking approach, particularly regarding AI integration and systems thinking. The portfolio requirement is explicitly about process and rationale, not just aesthetics. The expectation for Figma proficiency extends to design system contribution.

📊 Process & Systems Portfolio Requirements

Portfolio Essentials:

Demonstrate Design Thinking: Showcase projects that clearly illustrate your problem-solving process, from initial understanding and research to ideation, iteration, and final solution. Highlight the challenges and trade-offs considered.
AI Tool Integration: Include case studies that detail how AI tools were used to accelerate research, ideation, or prototyping, and how you applied your judgment to refine or select AI-generated outputs.
Systems Design: Present projects that demonstrate an understanding of designing within or contributing to design systems, showing how consistency and scalability were achieved across different contexts or brands.
User-Centricity & Impact: Clearly articulate the user needs addressed and the business impact achieved by your design solutions, supported by data or user feedback where possible.

Process Documentation:

Problem Framing Approach: Show examples of how you break down complex or ambiguous problems, including stakeholder interviews, requirements gathering, and competitive analysis.
AI-Assisted Workflow: Illustrate how AI tools are integrated into your design and research workflows, demonstrating efficiency gains and how you maintain design quality and strategic direction.
Design System Contribution: If applicable, provide examples of how you have contributed to or maintained design systems, such as creating reusable components, defining variables, or managing tokens.
Iterative Design & Feedback: Present projects that show a clear iteration process, including how user feedback and critique were incorporated to refine the design.

📝 Enhancement Note: The portfolio requirements are heavily geared towards demonstrating strategic thinking, AI integration, and a systems-level approach, aligning with the core themes of the job description. Emphasis is placed on showing the "why" and "how" behind design decisions.

💵 Compensation & Benefits

Salary Range: $150,000 - $175,000 per year.

Benefits:

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
Life and disability insurance.
Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) for health and dependent care.
401(k) savings plan with a company match.
Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).
Generous Flexible Time Off (FTO) policy.
Paid Volunteer Time Off (VTO).
Paid holidays.
Support for family building and caregiving needs.
Generous Family Care and Parental Leave policies.
Fitness reimbursement program.
Access to comprehensive wellness programs.

Working Hours: Standard full-time hours (approximately 40 hours per week), with flexibility expected to meet project deadlines and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.

📝 Enhancement Note: The salary range is provided as stated in the job description. The listed