Product Design Leader & Player‑Coach (Remote)

Roo; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 155,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Home office stipend

Continuing education stipend

Wellness stipend

Health benefits

401K

Unlimited PTO

Parental leave

Gifts on birthday & anniversary

Domestic travel opportunities

Job summary

Roo, a remote-first veterinary staffing platform, seeks a design lead to mentor a 5-person Product Design team and drive end-to-end design work across squads. You’ll define design excellence, scale systems, and push craft while staying close to users’ needs and business goals.

You’ll spend time in Figma leading projects, coach designers, and partner with product and engineering leadership to align design direction with the company’s mission to empower veterinary professionals.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product design experience with 2+ years of management
• Proven ability to coach senior designers toward strategic impact
• Strong portfolio across visual design, interaction design, systems thinking, product storytelling, and user centered craft
• Experience building and scaling design systems
• AI fluency in design practice and how it accelerates real work
• Ability to bring clarity to ambiguous spaces and turn loose ideas into compelling product concepts
• Strong cross functional communication skills and experience working with leadership

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow the 5 person Product Design team
• Evolve design competencies into a standard the whole company can understand and apply
• Support career growth by running development conversations and performance reviews
• Take on real design work yourself across hard problems and quick wins
• Partner with leadership to align design direction with product strategy and goals
• Build and strengthen design systems for consistency, quality, and scalability
• Shape design practices across discovery, concept development, interaction design, prototyping, and delivery
• Encourage exploration while staying grounded in user needs and market realities
• Advocate for the customer experience across every surface

Skills

Design leadership

Mentoring & coaching

Design systems

AI in design

Strategic influence

User research

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Figma

Design systems

Job description

Roo, a remote-first veterinary staffing platform, seeks a design lead to mentor a 5-person Product Design team and drive end-to-end design work across squads. You’ll define design excellence, scale systems, and push craft while staying close to users’ needs and business goals.

You’ll spend time in Figma leading projects, coach designers, and partner with product and engineering leadership to align design direction with the company’s mission to empower veterinary professionals.