Head of Product Design

Hi there! 👋

🐼 About us

WeWard is the app that rewards you for walking and turns everyday steps into real-life rewards, connections, & positive impact!

Our mission is to help people move more, feel better, and make movement meaningful.

Today, we are trusted by 25M+ users worldwide, with a fast-growing, international team and offices in Paris and New York.

Our ambition is to build the world’s leading movement-and-rewards platform, scaling globally while using technology, data, and smart incentives to drive lasting behavior change and wellbeing at scale.

🎯 About the role

We're looking for a Head of Product Design to shape a distinctive, delightful and emotionally engaging experience across WeWard.
Our ambition is to go beyond making our app more intuitive or visually appealing. We want to make every core interaction — from tracking steps and celebrating progress to earning rewards — feel intuitive, rewarding and unmistakably WeWard.
You'll define and champion a compelling UX vision, identify a small number of transformative experience opportunities, and turn them into meaningful design improvements that strengthen user preference for WeWard.
You'll combine exceptional UX/UI craft with strategic thinking, strong user empathy and the leadership required to influence product decisions and bring teams together around a shared design vision.

As Head of product Design, you’ll work on both strategy and execution managing our UX/UI designers Mélody (based in Boston) and Kasia in Paris and working closely with Adrien (our Art Director in Paris), and reporting directly to David (our Product Director in Paris).

👉 Your impact

• Define a compelling product design vision: Identify and champion a small number of transformative UX opportunities that make WeWard more distinctive, engaging and effective at motivating people to walk.

• Turn vision into actionable product bets: Translate strategic opportunities into clear concepts, prototypes, experiments and a prioritized design roadmap, balancing long-term innovation with short-term improvements.

• Collaborate across teams (Product, Tech, Marketing) and drive strategic alignement to make sure design adds value at every step- your goal is to ship features that users actually love.

• Design hands-on, end to end: own the design of key features from discovery to delivery (flows, wireframes, high-fidelity UI, interactive prototypes in Figma) to create innovative interfaces that feel seamless, coherent and alive.

• Combine qualitative research, behavioral data and product experimentation to uncover unmet user needs, challenge assumptions and identify opportunities to improve engagement, retention and walking motivation.

• Mentor and inspire the design team as it grows.

• Set quality standards and constantly push for better, bolder, cleaner UX/UI.

👉 What success looks like in the first year

• Establish a clear, shared design vision for WeWard, supported by a few bold, high-potential UX opportunities.

• Turn this vision into tangible product initiatives, with concepts and experiments that influence our roadmap.

• Defines how the designers measures the impact of its work on users, and influences WeWard’s strategic bets.

• Make meaningful progress toward a more coherent, distinctive and engaging experience across our core user journeys.

• Build a high-performing design team, with strong craft standards, clear priorities and effective cross-functional collaboration.

• Become a trusted and influential partner to Product, Business and company leadership.

Our commitments

• 🏆 SUCCEED — You’ll join a team of passionate people who share values of ambition and determination

• 🤝 TRUST — We give you real autonomy, trusting you to reach your goals in your own way

• ⛏️ EXPLORE — You’ll grow in a culture that’s constantly evolving and curious about what’s next

• 📈 PROGRESS — We’ll support you through challenges, learn from mistakes, and move forward together

• 😁 SMILE — And every day, you’ll be part of a fun and positive environment where humor is always welcome

Preferred experience

What we’re looking for

You’re the perfect match if you…

• Have 10+ years of experience in product/UX/UI design including 2 years in the role (consumer apps is your playground).

• A proven track record of influencing senior stakeholders and turning design convictions into shipped product changes.

• Demonstrated ability to connect design decisions to measurable user and business outcomes.

• You're AI-native in your design approach, actively leveraging AI tools to accelerate research, ideation, prototyping, and execution. You're curious about emerging capabilities and know how to turn them into better design outcomes and more effective team workflows.

• You are confident with Figma, Design System creation and maintenance, and prototyping tools.

• You are fluent in English & in French.

• Have a portfolio that makes us go “whoa” — show us your process, not just the pretty stuff.

• You like to link improvement and agility by coming up with new ideas! The spirit of WeWard has always been based on the Test & Learn approach, so we trust you to experiment with new things!

• You have a particular attraction for the start-up world and are looking to make a real impact in the adventure you’ll be joining.

• We’re now present in almost 30 countries worldwide… and you’re looking to develop in an international environment.

Soft skills that’ll make you thrive here

• You care deeply about users, teammates, and craft

• You can be a constructive design voice in strategic discussions, confidently challenging decisions, influencing senior stakeholders and building alignment around user-centered product opportunities.

• You’re autonomous and enjoy working as part of a team, because we build together

• You embrace feedback & iteration as fuel, and you value a friendly team culture

If this sounds like you, apply — we’d love to meet you. 🎉

🎁 What we offer

• ✈️ A global, mission-driven team with teammates in Paris, NY, London, Boston!

• 🧘‍♀️ A healthy work/life balance (we walk the talk)

• 💡 Annual learning & dev budget (you grow, we grow)

• 🏠 Hybrid work, with 2 days of remote work per week

• 🏢 (Really, really) Cool office in central Paris with snacks, a walking desk and a huge Wardy hanging around
  

Recruitment Timeline

1. A 30-min intro call with Valentine, our Talent Acquisition Lead — to discuss your background, expectations, and introduce you to WeWard

2. 30-min call with David, your future manager. Here you’ll go in detail about the role’s missions.

3. At-home case study followed by a 1 hour 15 min debrief with 3 collaborators (David, Adrien & Yves), including time for live case and mutual feedback.

4. Office tour to meet other team members.

And if it’s a match… Welcome to the adventure! 🐼