Senior Product Designer — Design Systems & Health Tech

Ensora Health; Iowa City (IA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Ensora Health is a leading provider of software and services for mental and behavioral health professionals. As a Senior Product Designer, you will shape experiences across web and mobile, with a focus on the design system, accessibility, and governance.

You will partner with engineering and product management to ensure parity between design and code, mentor teammates, and influence product design in iterative cycles for TheraNest initiatives.

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.
• ~ Experience designing responsive web and native mobile experiences.
• ~ Proven experience designing complex products in partnership with product managers and cross-functional teams in 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, along with a working understanding of HTML and CSS.
• ~ Strong communication skills, including presenting to stakeholders and effectively giving and receiving design critique.
• ~ An online portfolio demonstrating both design system and product design work. Experience using AI tools in design, research, prototyping, documentation, or product development workflows.
• ~ Experience preparing design systems to work effectively with 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.

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

UX design

Accessibility (WCAG/ADA)

Responsive design

Design leadership / mentorship

User research

Communication

AI-enabled design tools

HTML/CSS/JS basics

React component design

Education

Bachelor's degree in design or 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 professionals. As a Senior Product Designer, you will shape experiences across web and mobile, with a focus on the design system, accessibility, and governance.

You will partner with engineering and product management to ensure parity between design and code, mentor teammates, and influence product design in iterative cycles for TheraNest initiatives.