Senior Product Designer

Layer Health

$150K — $200K *
Healthcare
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of product design experience, especially in enterprise or healthcare software
  • Strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end product design with a focus on simplifying complex data
  • Empathy for non-technical user needs in healthcare
  • Proficiency in modern design tools, preferably Figma
  • Experience collaborating with engineers on design systems
  • Strong communication skills for articulating design choices
  • Understanding of accessibility standards
  • Experience with rapid prototyping and iterative processes
  • Experience in early-stage product environments
  • Proactive problem-solver with a sense of ownership

Responsibilities

  • Design and prototype user-friendly interfaces that translate complex healthcare data
  • Craft interactions to help users navigate and analyze clinical information effectively
  • Collaborate with a user-centered product manager for early feedback
  • Work with a skilled team of engineers with backgrounds in medicine and AI
  • Design impactful products that enhance healthcare systems and patient outcomes
  • Engage with cutting-edge AI/ML technologies
  • Influence the design culture and processes as a key team member

Benefits

  • Opportunity to be an early designer in a growing startup
  • Chance to shape the future of healthcare technology
  • Work with advanced AI and machine learning tools
  • Flexible PTO policy
  • Professional development opportunities
  • Competitive compensation and equity packages
  • Join a collaborative and enthusiastic team
Full Job Description
We're hiring an empathetic, fast-learning Product Designer to shape the future of how healthcare professionals interact with AI. In this role, you will own the end-to-end design process for our products, working closely within our Design team of one (with you, two!), engineering, product, and clinical teams to create intuitive and impactful experiences. You'll join our product design team as a critical hire, with a massive opportunity to shape the company and our products. Here's a collection of articles about our product, mission, recent funding round, etc. **Job Description** We're hiring an experienced Product Designer to shape the future of how healthcare professionals interact with AI. In this role, you will own the end-to-end design process for our products, working closely with our engineering, product, and clinical teams to create intuitive and impactful experiences. You'll join our product design team as a critical hire, with a massive opportunity to shape the company and our products, in conjunction with product managers and engineering. **You can expect to:** - Design and prototype interfaces that distill complex healthcare data into clear, intuitive experiences that users love. - Craft rich interactions that empower users to efficiently navigate, analyze, understand, and take action on clinical information. - Collaborate closely with user-focused product managers who deeply understand the product and collaborate side by side with designers, as equals. - Work alongside an awesome team of product-focused engineers, including a founding team from MIT with backgrounds in medicine, ML, and HCI. - Design a product that will have an immediate positive impact on healthcare systems, with the potential to improve patient outcomes and lives. - Engage with cutting-edge technologies, including LLMs and ML, to revolutionize healthcare. - Shape our design culture, processes, and best practices as the second member of the design team, establishing the foundation for exceptional product experiences **We look for:** - 5+ years of experience in product design, preferably in enterprise and/or healthcare software - Strong portfolio showcasing end-to-end product design, with a focus on interaction design and simplifying complexity in data-heavy applications - Empathy for understanding user needs, especially for non-technical users in healthcare or analogous experience - Experience becoming a designer that blurs the boundaries of disciplines using AI: if you've prototyped with Cursor/Windsurf/Figma Make, or if you've delved into Product with ChatPRD, you're probably a great fit for this role! - Strong communication skills to articulate design decisions in the context of business needs. - Understanding of accessibility standards and best practices - Experience working with early-stage products - A proactive problem-solver with a strong sense of ownership and independence - An adaptable team player eager to innovate in the healthcare industry **Location:** This role is hybrid, requiring two in-office days per week at either our Boston or NYC location. Candidates in the Greater Boston or NYC metro areas are encouraged to apply. **Why Join Us?** - Be an early designer at a rapidly growing startup - Shape the future of healthcare technology - Work with cutting-edge AI/ML technology, including LLMs - Competitive compensation, equity, and benefits packages - Flexible PTO policy - Professional development opportunities - Work with an awesome team! Expected compensation range for this role is $150,000-200,000, in addition to stock options. Compensation is dependent on experience, overall fit to our role, and candidate location. Expected compensation ranges for this role may change over time. If your compensation requirement is greater than our posted salary ranges, please still consider applying to our role. We will make a determination as to whether an exception can be made. If you are excited about this role, we encourage you to apply even if you don't feel that you meet every single requirement. We're eager to meet people that believe in our mission and can contribute to our team in a variety of ways. We welcome diverse perspectives, rigorous thinking, and fearlessness in challenging the status quo. Join us and help us transform healthcare with AI.

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