Lead Product Designer, Trust and Safety

About Hinge

Hinge is the dating app designed to be deleted, on a mission to inspire intimate connection to create a less lonely world. The company is obsessed with understanding user behaviors to help them find love, measuring success by setting up great dates. With millions of global users, Hinge has become the most trusted way to find a relationship for all.

About the Lead Product Designer, Trust and Safety Role

Join Hinge's Trust & Safety Group as a Lead Product Designer to drive impactful work across Hinge’s most strategic product areas. This role seeks a highly experienced design leader who thrives on navigating complex, nuanced, and ambiguous problem spaces, with a passion for creating elegant, user-centered experiences that empower people to make meaningful connections with confidence. You will lead design for multi-quarter initiatives, mentor peers, prototype bold ideas, and work closely with partners in Product, Engineering, and User Research. Define the future of safe dating, owning the design strategy for user-facing safety—from solutions for vulnerable daters to systems facilitating user-to-user trust. As the design lead, you will guide peers and help Hinge set the standard for safe, human-centered dating experiences.

Responsibilities

• Design Leadership and Execution: Lead end-to-end design for safety and trusted connection, transforming ambiguous problems into thoughtful user flows, prototypes, and high-quality UI.
• Craft and Systems Thinking: Maintain a high bar for visual, interaction, and motion design while evolving design systems and visual language for cohesive, scalable safety experiences.
• Mentorship and Influence: Mentor designers, lead critiques, elevate design quality, model strong collaboration, and foster curiosity, experimentation, and emotional intelligence.
• Strategic Collaboration and Impact: Partner with Product, Engineering, Research, Data Science, Operations, and Policy to define vision, align stakeholders, present to leadership, and deliver outcomes.
• Innovation and Forward Thinking: Drive experimentation through advanced prototyping and emerging technologies, championing design-led innovation for emotionally complex spaces.

What We’re Looking For

• 8+ years in product design, including 3+ years leading design for mobile consumer products.
• Experience designing for Trust & Safety, integrity, privacy, identity, or risk-related problem spaces strongly preferred.
• Proven track record of driving end-to-end design across complex, multi-surface experiences in fast-paced environments.
• A portfolio demonstrating exceptional product thinking, craft excellence, and the ability to translate user insights into elegant, impactful solutions.
• Expertise in Figma, prototyping, and design systems; ability to work fluently across iOS and Android.
• Experience leading design through ambiguity and influencing strategy through storytelling and systems thinking.
• Strength in research collaboration, synthesis, and hypothesis-driven iteration.
• Skilled in workshop facilitation, stakeholder management, and executive communication.
• Deep understanding of accessibility, inclusivity, ethical design principles, and safety-by-design methodologies.

Bonus Experience

• Experience designing for Trust & Safety, community health, marketplace integrity, identity, or privacy.
• Familiarity with experimentation, behavioral frameworks, or machine learning signals used to detect or prevent harmful interactions.
• Active participation in the design or Trust & Safety community through writing, speaking, or mentorship.

Benefits & Perks

As a member of our team, you’ll enjoy:

• 401(k) Matching: 100% match of the first 10% of pre-tax 401(k) contributions, up to $10,000/year.
• Professional Growth: Annual Learning & Development stipend and free access to Udemy (6000+ courses) from day one.
• Parental Leave & Planning: 100% paid parental leave (20 weeks) for both birth and non-birth parents.
• Fertility Support: Easy access to fertility care through Carrot, including a stipend for fertility preservation for employees and spouses/domestic partners.
• Date Stipend: $100 monthly stipend for dates and free Hinge Premium for employees and their loved ones.
• ERGs: Eight Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) fostering diversity, support, and community.

Our Core Values

• Authenticity: Share, never hide, words, actions, and intentions.
• Courage: Embrace lofty goals and tough challenges.
• Empathy: Deeply consider the perspective of others.

Diversity & Inclusion

Hinge is an equal-opportunity employer that values diversity and does not discriminate. Success is created by a diverse workforce with different ideas, strengths, interests, and cultural backgrounds. Reasonable accommodation is available for job applications, testing, or interviews; contact your Talent Acquisition partner.

Key skills/competency

• Product Design Leadership
• Trust and Safety Design
• Mobile Consumer Products
• User-Centered Design
• Figma & Prototyping
• Design Systems
• iOS & Android Design
• Strategic Thinking
• Stakeholder Management
• Ethical Design Principles