Principal Product Designer

At MyFitnessPal, our vision is to be the most trusted brand for improving your health through better food choices. We believe good health starts with what you eat. We provide the tools and resources to reach your weight management goals.

The MyFitnessPal Design Team fosters an experience-first culture, crafting intuitive user journeys that empower healthier lives. Collaborating across teams, we transform user insights into innovative, impactful designs. Driven by a deep understanding of our users, we advocate for their needs to shape meaningful experiences that make health and fitness more accessible and rewarding.

We are looking for a Principal Product Designer for our core experience.

What you’ll be doing:

You will be the highest level individual contributor responsible for driving design excellence, shaping strategy, and delivering high-impact work across complex product areas. As a Principal Product Designer, you’ll work closely with cross-functional partners to define the vision, connect experiences across the product ecosystem, and elevate quality through deep craft and strategic thinking. You’ll be a trusted thought partner, mentoring others and championing design as a key lever for customer and business impact.

• Transform ambiguity into clarity, leveraging your expertise and design process to establish structure. You proactively plan, anticipate challenges, and envision the next steps, even when they’re not immediately clear.
• Lead by example, setting a high bar for design quality, driving innovation, and cultivating a culture of curiosity, urgency, and continuous improvement.
• Think strategically, framing designs within the broader customer experience, while also being adept at diving into detailed execution.
• Share work with clarity and purpose by gathering feedback from stakeholders, facilitating alignment, and representing the user’s perspective in executive reviews.
• Collaborate across teams, ensuring a cohesive and consistent experiences, acting as a bridge between product areas and influencing the holistic user experience.

Qualifications to be successful in this role: 

• 10+ years of experience in Product Design, with a strong track record of delivering impactful, customer-facing experiences across native iOS and Android platforms
• Proven ability to lead complex design initiatives as a senior IC, influencing cross-functional strategy and product direction
• Experience working on high-velocity teams and shipping solutions that drive measurable business and user value
• Strong design systems and end-to-end product thinking, balancing iterative improvements with larger experiences
• A bias toward action, experimentation, and learning from outcomes, both wins and failures
• Comfortable using both qualitative and quantitative insights to inform design decisions and evaluate success
• Excellent communication skills with the able to clearly articulate rationale, vision, and tradeoffs to designers, engineers, and executives

Note: To be considered, you must provide a link to an online portfolio (please include password).

 

Please consider applying even if you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications. Research shows you can still be considered for a position if you meet some of the requirements. At MyFitnessPal, we’re building a fitness product for everyone and believe our team should reflect that. We encourage people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives to apply.

The reasonably estimated salary for this role at MyFitnessPal ranges from $150,000 - $230,000. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate’s skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, MyFitnessPal offers a wide range of comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, parental planning, mental health benefits, annual performance bonus, a 401(k) plan and match, responsible time off, monthly wellness and technology allowances, and others.

Exciting Full-Time Employee Benefits, Perks and Culture

Face-to-Face Connections: We value personal connections. Enjoy opportunities to meet and connect with your team members in person to help forge meaningful relationships that extend beyond the virtual realm. Teams meet as often as needed and all of MyFitnessPal gathers annually.

Flexibility At Its Best: Achieve the work-life balance you deserve. Enjoy a flexible time-off policy and work on your own terms with our Responsible Time Off benefit. 

Give Back: Use  your volunteer days off to support what matters most