Founding designer

Lucis (YC X25); Paris; Sur place; EUR 60 000 - 80 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

A healthcare technology startup in Paris seeks a founding designer to shape product and brand strategy. You will lead design processes from user research to implementation, collaborating closely with teams. Ideal candidates have 5+ years of product design experience and expertise in design systems. The role offers equity, development budget, and quarterly retreats in Europe.

Prestations

Equity that matters

Budget for personal care and development

Quarterly in-person retreats

Modern dev-tool stack

Qualifications

• 5+ years product design experience required, with consumer products experience a plus.
• Strong understanding of the healthcare ecosystem and preventive health.
• Experience with design systems and component-based design.

Responsabilités

• Own the end-to-end design process from research to implementation.
• Create intuitive interfaces for health data.
• Conduct user testing to validate design decisions.

Connaissances

Product design experience

Master of Figma

Ability to translate complex data

Fluent in English

Description du poste

As our first founding designer, you'll shape both product and brand strategy, and design systems from the ground up, reporting directly to our CTO with significant input on the product roadmap.

On The Day-to-day, You’ll

• Own the end-to-end design process from user research and ideation to high-fidelity mockups and implementation.
• Create intuitive interfaces that transform complex health data into actionable insights.
• Design and develop our product design system, establishing patterns and components that can scale.
• Collaborate closely with engineering and product teams to ensure seamless implementation of designs.
• Conduct user testing to validate design decisions and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Build features that foster community engagement and support among users.
• Help define product strategy based on user needs and business objectives.
• Ensure our consumer brand remains consistent across the company materials and communication channels.
• Work with the GTM team on the website and marketing materials.
  
  

You’ll thrive here if you

• 5+ years product design experience. Consumer products experience is a plus.
• Master of Figma. Experience with design systems and component-based design.
• You have reinvented broken user experiences.
• Solid grasp of the healthcare ecosystem and preventive health space. Comfortable with data-heavy design. Ability to translate complex data into Apple-grade interfaces.
• Bias for shipping small, safe experiments fast.
• Entrepreneurial, low-ego mindset. You want to build a massive company with massive impact.
• Cautious about your health, actively doing sport. Care about health: you read PubMed abstracts for fun, or track your own biomarkers and metrics.
• Fluent in English. French is a bonus.
  
  

Our culture

We are building fast, for the long term.

• Rigor without ego: audits, science, and code deserve the same high bar.
• Default to action: small PRs, short feedback loops.
• Radical ownership: you break it, you fix it (and write the doc).
• Play long games: we’re building a 100-year company to help people live 100 healthy years.
  
  

What We Offer

• Equity that matters: real ownership at the inflection point. With top-tier salaries.
• Budget for personal care, personal development, and health stipends (we pay your own Lucis tests).
• Quarterly in-person retreats in Europe. We repeat the YC experience every 3 months.
• Hardware of your choice, modern dev-tool stack.
• The chance to directly improve thousands of lives, starting with your own, through smarter preventive care. We are the average of the person we spend our time with.