Senior Product Designer

Responsibilities:

• Lead product design across active product streams, partnering with Product Management to refine problem spaces, navigate ambiguity, and propose design trade-offs early in the product cycle.
• Audit existing clinical and operational workflows using user research, product data, and design reviews, then translate what you find into changes that improve clinical efficiency and patient outcomes.
• Propose, document, and maintain scalable components and dynamic patterns within InStride’s Figma-based design system, keeping libraries organized for cross-functional production.
• Design system architectures that cleanly handle complex data, dynamic error states, and the range of environments our users work in.
• Build prototypes at the fidelity each moment calls for, from low-fidelity wireframes through interactive high-fidelity flows in Figma, matched to the needs of user tests, stakeholder reviews, or the relevant Software Development Lifecycle phase.
• Integrate AI tools into the design workflow, including generative layout tools, AI-assisted content generation, and automated interaction generation, to accelerate exploration and shorten discovery cycles.
• Independently lead user research and discovery for major initiatives, scoping and executing the minimum viable amount of research needed to efficiently mitigate risk before investing in a build.
• Ensure clinical safety and accessibility standards (WCAG) are met across all designs, and conduct competitive audits to bring best-in-class UX patterns into the product.
• Evaluate technical trade-offs alongside Engineering and Data partners, weighing speed against complexity and communicating design rationale, logic, and component dependencies clearly.
• Participate fully in your sprint team’s ceremonies, design team reviews, and regular check-ins with your manager and cross-functional partners, managing project timelines and keeping the engineering pipeline stocked with validated, technically feasible design work.
• Deliver early, actionable critique in design reviews and mentor design team members on best practices, tips, and modern AI-enhanced design workflows.
• Document active streams, design system changes, and open decisions so that work in progress transitions cleanly at the close of the assignment.

What You Need to Succeed in the Role:

• 5+ years of end-to-end product design experience, ideally in health tech, digital health, or complex enterprise SaaS applications.
• Master-level proficiency in Figma, including auto-layout, advanced component variables, dynamic states, and modern plugin ecosystems.
• Demonstrated experience with design system management, tokenization, and scaling design libraries for enterprise applications.
• Hands-on experience integrating AI-driven prototyping or generative design tools to speed up discovery and validation workflows.
• Proven track record using research, data, and competitive auditing to de-risk projects and drive product strategy.
• Strong knowledge of web and mobile accessibility standards (WCAG) and clinical or data safety guidelines.
• A portfolio that demonstrates complex workflow design, systems thinking, and measurable product outcomes.
• Ability to build context quickly and contribute meaningfully inside an established product organization within the first few weeks.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to convey design rationale clearly to both technical and non-technical partners.
• Comfort navigating ambiguity and setting direction on complex problems with general guidance rather than detailed instruction.
• Availability to work standard business hours with sufficient overlap across US time zones for sprint ceremonies, design reviews, and cross-functional collaboration.