Senior Product Designer

Therapy Brands Thrive, LLC; Frankfort (KY); On-site; USD 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Therapy Brands Thrive, LLC in Frankfort, KY seeks a Senior Product Designer to shape web and mobile customer experiences and scale a design system used across teams. You will evolve components, tokens, documentation, accessibility, and governance while partnering with product management on TheraNest initiatives.

The role emphasizes accessibility (WCAG/ADA), healthcare considerations, and collaboration with engineering to ensure parity between design and code. A strong portfolio is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in design, HCI, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Lead the evolution, management, and quality of the design system across web and native mobile experiences.
• Own and continuously improve components, patterns, tokens, documentation, accessibility standards, and governance practices.
• Partner with engineering to plan, design, review, test, quality-assure, and release design system updates.
• Maintain parity between designed and coded sources across responsive experiences.
• Build accessibility into components and patterns from the start, advocating for WCAG and ADA aligned practices.
• Keep design system documentation current, including usage guidance, responsive behaviors, specifications, and implementation considerations.
• Support the system’s AI readiness through tokens, guidance, and documentation.
• Lead design system meetings and rituals (office hours, demonstrations, critiques).
• Communicate updates, gather feedback, and drive adoption while identifying emerging system needs.
• Prioritize backlog items with product owner and engineering, translating needs into actionable work.
• Serve as UX counterpart to TheraNest product managers through iterative product cycles.
• Design user-centered solutions aligned with business goals and success metrics.
• Produce design artifacts (concepts, wireframes, flows, mockups, prototypes, specs).
• Plan and conduct user research and usability testing, then synthesize findings to guide decisions.

Job description

Therapy Brands Thrive, LLC is seeking a Senior Product Designer to shape web and mobile customer experiences and help scale a design system that teams can reliably use. This role focuses on evolving the system across components, tokens, documentation, accessibility standards, and governance, while also partnering with product management as a UX counterpart for TheraNest initiatives.

What you’ll do

• Lead the evolution, management, and quality of the design system across web and native mobile experiences.
• Own and continuously improve components, patterns, tokens, documentation, accessibility standards, and governance practices.
• Partner with engineering to plan, design, review, test, quality-assure, and release design system updates.
• Maintain strong parity between designed and coded sources, and help teams understand component behavior across responsive experiences.
• Build accessibility into components and patterns from the start, and evaluate design system solutions for usability and accessibility.
• Advocate for WCAG and ADA aligned practices and document accessibility expectations for designers and engineers.
• Keep design system documentation current, including usage guidance, responsive behaviors, specifications, implementation considerations, and accessibility standards.
• Support the system’s AI readiness through clear documentation, tokens, guidance, skills, and connections.
• Lead design system meetings and rituals such as office hours, demonstrations, and critiques.
• Communicate updates, gather feedback, support adoption, educate teams, and identify emerging system needs.
• Execute and strengthen design system governance, balancing consistency with product needs and advising when to use, adapt, or propose additions.
• Write and prioritize design system backlog items with the product owner and engineering, translating user, product, design, and technical needs into actionable work.
• Serve as a UX counterpart to product managers on assigned TheraNest initiatives by providing product design and research expertise throughout iterative product cycles.
• Design user-centered solutions aligned with business goals and target success metrics.
• Create experiences that are useful, highly usable, responsive, accessible, and thoughtfully crafted.
• Produce design artifacts including concepts, wireframes, user flows, mockups, prototypes, specifications, and detailed deliverables.
• Plan and conduct user research and usability testing in collaboration with product partners, then analyze and synthesize findings to guide product decisions.
• Present design work to internal teams, subject-matter experts, and stakeholders to explain decisions, gather feedback, and build alignment.
• Consider and advocate for applicable privacy and compliance requirements, including requirements related to protected health information and HIPAA.
• Use approved AI tools to assist with design, research, documentation, and related workflows.
• Mentor other designers and provide constructive design feedback to raise design craft and design system fluency across the team.

What you bring

• 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 a design system, including components, patterns, tokens, documentation, and governance.
• Strong interaction and visual design skills with exceptional attention to detail and a commitment to quality.
• Strong knowledge of accessibility standards and practices, including WCAG and ADA, with experience advocating for and implementing accessible design approaches.
• Experience designing responsive web and native mobile experiences.
• Proven experience designing complex products in partnership with product managers and cross-functional teams during iterative product cycles.
• Advanced Figma skills, including component design, prototyping, branching, token management, AI tools, documentation, and methods for maintaining design and code parity.
• Experience partnering directly with engineering on a coded component library, including a working understanding of HTML and CSS.
• Strong communication skills, including presenting to stakeholders and giving and receiving design critique effectively.
• An online portfolio demonstrating both design system and product design work (required to apply).

Tools & technologies

• Figma, HTML, CSS, WCAG, ADA, HIPAA

Preferred qualifications

• Experience using AI tools in design, research, prototyping, documentation, or product development workflows.
• Experience preparing design systems for AI-enabled tools and development practices.
• Experience conducting design and research for healthcare, behavioral health, regulated, or data-sensitive products.
• Experience migrating products from legacy interfaces or systems to a modern design system.
• Strong technical proficiency with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Experience designing React components or working with Material UI.
• Experience using product analytics platforms to inform design decisions and measure outcomes.
• User research and user testing capabilities, including planning, data collection, and analysis.

Location: Frankfort, KY (onsite)