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Lead Product Designer

Role overview

Qualifications

  • 5+ years as a UI/UX or Product Designer at consumer-focused companies
  • Portfolio showcasing shipped products that drove meaningful business results
  • Experience with user research, prototyping, UI/UX design, and usability testing
  • Startup experience preferred

Responsibilities

  • Own the end-to-end user experience for your product area, from discovery to launch
  • Design beautiful, intuitive interfaces that delight and drive results
  • Lead user research to uncover real needs and pain points
  • Work closely with product managers to align design with business goals

Key facts

Other skills

  • Collaboration
  • Creative Design
  • Empathy
  • Detail Oriented
  • Problem Solving

About the company

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Ladder

Health, Wellness & Fitness

Ladder is a fitness app dedicated to providing the world's best strength training plan from the world's best coaches, every single day. Get movement videos, in-ear coaching, and precise pacing for every workout, so you can workout more consistently, get stronger and never have to plan your workouts ever again.

Company details

Company typeStartup
IndustryHealth, Wellness & Fitness
Company size11 - 50

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Job description

Join Ladder’s mission to redefine strength training and help millions get stronger with our top-ranked iOS app. Remote-friendly (US time zones) with HQ in Austin, TX.

We are growing rapidly - $60M ARR ($3M in 2023), 4.9 stars (100k+ ratings) for our iOS app, which was Apple's 2025 App of the Year finalist. As we scale, we're looking to bring on a Product Design leader to join our team. Product Design at Ladder means crafting an experience that raises the bar for what people can expect from an app, and transforming millions of people's relationship with fitness. This isn't about making things look pretty. It's about building an interface and journey members can't live without.

πŸͺœ About Ladder

  • Ladder is the #1 iOS strength & conditioning app. We deliver custom weekly workout plans with in-workout coaching, progress tracking, and a tight-knit fitness community.

  • We’ve scaled fast β€” thanks to strong retention, smart unit economics, and a product people love. With fresh capital, momentum, and a bold vision to expand beyond fitness, we’re building something your kids will brag about.

  • Tier 1 Investors - 2024 Series B led by Point72, plus a $100M growth capital commitment from General Catalyst; early investors include Jorge Mazal (former CPO @ Duolingo), Gina Gotthilf (former VP Growth @ Duolingo), Conner Zwick (CEO @ Speak AI), Des Traynor (Cofounder @ Intercom), Bill Shufelt (CEO @ Athletic Brew Co.), Patrick O'Shaughnessy (Invest Like The Best), and more.

  • 100% remote friendly β€” but if you're local, you're welcome to work out of our Austin HQ.

πŸ§‘β€πŸš€ What you’ll do

Vision & Craft

  • Own the end-to-end user experience for your product area, from discovery to launch

  • Design beautiful, intuitive interfaces that delight and drive results

  • Turn complex problems into simple, elegant solutions

  • Set and uphold the highest standards for usability and visual design

Research & Discovery

  • Lead user research to uncover real needs and pain points

  • Rapidly prototype and test concepts with real users

  • Analyze usage and feedback to inform design decisions and iterate

Collaboration & Execution

  • Work closely with product managers to align design with business goals

  • Partner with engineers to ensure pixel-perfect implementation

  • Champion design thinking across the organization

  • Move fast without sacrificing quality

🧬 Who you are

You're a 10x Designer - a rare blend of creative vision, technical skill, user empathy, and a relentless drive for excellence. You see the big picture and sweat every detail. You can ship quickly but never cut corners. You make decisions with conviction - and back them up with user insights and craft.

The Foundation

  • 5+ years as a UI/UX or Product Designer at consumer-focused companies

  • Portfolio showcasing shipped products that drove meaningful business results

  • Experience with user research, prototyping, UI/UX design, and usability testing

  • Startup experience preferred - you thrive in fast-paced, high-agency environments

The Mindset

  • Member obsessed - you lose sleep over anything less than 5-star reviews

  • Design-driven intuition - strong gut backed by user feedback and data

  • Relentless simplification - you cut clutter, sweat the pixels, and fight for clarity

  • High agency - you don't wait for permission to solve problems

Bonus Points

  • Fitness/wellness industry experience or passion

  • iOS app design background

  • Experience designing for growth and engagement

🎯 Why join Ladder?

The Business

  • Well Capitalized (Series B); join before our Series C!

  • Profitable unit economics with disciplined growth

  • Big ambition: building a household name beyond fitness that our peers and children recognize in a decade

The Culture

  • High-performing team that wins the right way

  • β€œLet you cook if you have the chops” environment

  • Veteran team focused on customer problems and fast execution

The Benefits

  • Competitive salary + meaningful equity

  • Full health benefits (medical, dental, vision)

  • Unlimited PTO

  • Brand new equipment

  • Austin HQ with remote flexibility (US time zones)

  • Free Ladder membership for you and your family

  • Fully-stocked gym and studio access

πŸ’ͺ Ready to build the future of fitness?

If you're a 10x Designer who thrives in a high-agency environment and wants to help shape the future of fitness - we'd love to meet you.

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