Karim Naguib

Leading teams
to success

Currently Head of Product Design & Research at A Place for Mom

Design executive with 15+ years leading teams through new product bets, mature platforms, and global growth. My work spans consumer, B2B, and enterprise products, with deep experience in marketplaces, personalization, internationalization, and AI-enabled workflows.

A Place for Mom
Families and older adults represented in A Place for Mom photography

Head of Product Design & Research

April 2026 — Present

Designing clarity for life’s most important decisions.

Turning complex marketplace strategy into connected, intelligent experiences—then evolving the brand, design foundations, research, and delivery practices needed to move with clarity, care, and scale.

Brand

Reframing a high-stakes care search as a trusted, continuous relationship—using context, clarity, and a more human product expression to help families move forward with confidence.

Vision

Building connected, agentic experiences across family, provider, and advisor journeys—pairing intelligent guidance with human expertise so every handoff advances the same care decision.

Systems

Leading the AI transformation behind the experience: unifying design foundations, research, and delivery practices so teams can responsibly prototype, evaluate, and scale AI-enabled products.

Indeed hiring automation experience

AI Automation Platform

May 2024 — Oct 2025
Unified fragmented AI screening and automation into a shared employer and job-seeker platform. Led 10+ designers, researchers, and content designers while establishing a RITE research cadence, AI evaluation templates, launch-readiness reviews, and a self-serve prototyping stack.
Indeed sourcing product interfaceIndeed sourcing projects interface

Smart Sourcing

Aug 2017 — Aug 2021
Led a six-person design and research team through the subscription-model pivot and long-term product vision across SMB and enterprise experiences, contributing to 16× ARR growth.
Booking.com traveler imagery
Booking.com destination and accommodation collage

Booking.com

May 2014 — Jul 2017
Led international research and hundreds of experiments across traveler and partner journeys, delivering 90 successful tests to millions of visitors and reusable components implemented in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
SkillAcademy learning platform

SkillAcademy

Jun 2013 — May 2014
As a founding designer, I led online user research and designed and implemented the responsive platform from acquisition and onboarding through core learning flows.