Senior Design System Architect - Health Tech

Ensora Health; Texas; On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Ensora Health is a leading provider of software and services for mental and behavioral health therapists, trusted by over 200,000 providers and 28,000 practices. As Senior Product Designer, you will shape systems and experiences across web and mobile, focusing on the design system's evolution, documentation, accessibility, and governance.

You will partner with product management for TheraNest initiatives, applying design and research to create accessible, responsive experiences at scale while

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in product or UX design, including 3+ years leading design systems used by multiple product teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• Proven experience managing and evolving an effective design system, including components, patterns, tokens, documentation, and governance.
• Strong interaction and visual design skills, with exceptional attention to detail and a commitment to design quality.
• Strong knowledge of accessibility standards and practices, including WCAG and ADA, with experience advocating for and implementing accessible design approaches.

Responsibilities

• Lead the evolution, management, and quality of the design system across web and native mobile experiences.
• Partner closely with your engineering counterpart to plan, design, review, test, quality-assure, and release design system updates.
• Maintain strong parity between designed and coded sources, and help teams understand how components should behave across responsive experiences.
• Evaluate and test design system solutions for accessibility and usability, advocate for WCAG and ADA-aligned practices, and document accessibility expectations for designers and engineers.
• Maintain clear design system documentation, including usage guidance, responsive behaviors, specifications, implementation considerations, and accessibility standards.
• Support the system’s AI readiness through effective documentation, tokens, guidance, skills, and connections.
• Lead design system meetings, office hours, demonstrations, critiques, and other team rituals.
• Execute and strengthen design system governance.
• Review requests from designers and engineers, balance consistency with product needs, and help teams make informed decisions about when to use, adapt, or propose additions to the system.
• Write and prioritize design system backlog items in partnership with the product owner and engineering. Translate user, product, design, and technical needs into clear, actionable work.
• Partner with product managers as their UX counterpart for assigned TheraNest initiatives. Provide product design and research expertise while collaborating with engineering, subject-matter experts, and stakeholders throughout iterative product cycles.
• Design user-centered solutions that align with business goals and target success metrics.
• Produce a range of design artifacts, including concepts, wireframes, user flows, mockups, prototypes, specifications, and detailed design deliverables.
• Plan and conduct user research and usability testing in collaboration with product partners.
• Present design work to internal teams, subject-matter experts, and stakeholders to explain decisions, gather feedback, and build alignment.
• Use approved AI tools to assist, automate, accelerate, and improve the quality of design, research, documentation, and related workflows.
• Mentor other designers, provide constructive design feedback, and help raise design craft and design system fluency across the team.

Skills

Design systems

Figma

HTML/CSS/JS

React components

Healthcare product design

UX research

Education

Bachelor’s degree in design/HCI

Tools

Figma

HTML/CSS

JavaScript

React

Material-UI

Job description

Ensora Health is a leading provider of software and services for mental and behavioral health therapists, trusted by over 200,000 providers and 28,000 practices. As Senior Product Designer, you will shape systems and experiences across web and mobile, focusing on the design system's evolution, documentation, accessibility, and governance.

You will partner with product management for TheraNest initiatives, applying design and research to create accessible, responsive experiences at scale while