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.

Open to VP or Head of Design roles across the U.S. and selected advisory work.

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 and operating systems needed to deliver them 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.

Family ExperienceProvider Experience
Indeed hiring automation experience

AI Automation Platform

May 2024 — Apr 2026
Led the team building an end-to-end hiring automation experience for employers and job seekers, accelerating hiring from apply to personal connection.
Interview NowAI Screening
Indeed integrations marketplace illustration

Integration Marketplace, Developer Experience and Partnerships

Aug 2021 — May 2024
Led the vision for Indeed Integrations, Developer Experience, Recruiter Extension, and ATS plugins—supporting enterprise growth across design, research, content, and design engineering.
Employer MarketplaceDeveloper Experience
Indeed sourcing product interfaceIndeed sourcing projects interface

Smart Sourcing

Aug 2017 — Aug 2021
For Indeed’s premier sourcing platform, I led the design pivot to a subscription model and shipped improvements across growth, core, and strategic initiatives.
Indeed Smart Sourcing
Booking.com traveler imagery
Booking.com destination and accommodation collage

Booking.com

May 2014 — Jul 2017
I worked across both sides of the travel marketplace—from localized traveler experiences to tools that helped property owners build their brand and manage availability.
Booker ExperiencePartner Experience
SkillAcademy learning platform

SkillAcademy

Jun 2013 — May 2014
As a founding designer, I shipped the initial platform design and frontend implementation for core learning flows across desktop and mobile.
Sunset in 2016

Toolbox

Ethos

Keep it simple—focused on the core of user needs, there’s beauty in finding the simplest form to serve function.

Process

I believe in an adaptive mindset. I spend time understanding an organization’s capabilities and appetite, then adapt to it. My process is rooted in research, continuous iteration, collaboration, data, and delivery.

Focus

I find core user needs in the midst of ambiguity, align teams and stakeholders, and create simple solutions for complex problems. I partner with leaders to turn business needs into product strategy, design vision, and executable roadmaps.

Software

Cursor, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Lovable, Figma, Photoshop, Sheets, Slides, Sticky Notes

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