Staff Product Designer (Lead) – Remote

Thistle Health; California; Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Thistle seeks a Staff/Lead Product Designer to collaborate with product and engineering to deliver high-quality UX for consumers and internal users. You will create repeatable design systems and guidelines to scale design across the organization.

Reporting to the Chief Product Officer, you will lead user-centered design, partner with marketing, data, and operations, and drive research initiatives to shape product strategy. This is a remote US role with 2–4 annual trips to production facilities.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant experience in user experience design in a product-driven company.
• Experience leading the conception and prototyping of brand new products as well as feature enhancements, all with a user-centered design process.
• You have a user and data-informed design mentality. You are constantly looking to hone your team’s instincts through user feedback and data insights.
• Deep experience conceiving of, planning, and executing user research projects.
• Strong ability to communicate in writing to concisely share insights and effectively lay out a case for a course of action.
• Experience designing for both web and mobile. Familiarity with unique technical and usability constraints when designing for desktop and mobile.
• Experience hiring and directly managing other designers is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Think holistically about complex systems, empathize with customers, and understand business objectives to create compelling and effective product experiences.
• Develop user-centered design solutions based on research, member insights, and industry best practices.
• Partner with product to help define and execute research initiatives to guide the direction of your design work as well as inform business strategy.
• Present design concepts and clearly communicate design intent through design specs and presentation documents.
• Own and iterate on our design system and advocate for scalable design solutions across product, brand, and marketing.
• Collaborate with our marketing team to ensure brand consistency and evolve our brand design system to be even more resonant and differentiating.
• Work cross-functionally with product, data, marketing, engineering, and operations partners to represent the design function, facilitate design discussions, and give feedback in planning and product channels.
• On Day1, you’ll be the single member of our product design team. But when we expand the size of our product design team, you will:
• Build and manage our product design team. Hire the best, lead with a well-communicated vision, provide supportive coaching, and guide individuals along deliberate career development paths.
• You’ll be a player-coach, directly owning and executing projects while also being a people manager.

Education

4 Year Degree

Job description

Thistle seeks a Staff/Lead Product Designer to collaborate with product and engineering to deliver high-quality UX for consumers and internal users. You will create repeatable design systems and guidelines to scale design across the organization.

Reporting to the Chief Product Officer, you will lead user-centered design, partner with marketing, data, and operations, and drive research initiatives to shape product strategy. This is a remote US role with 2–4 annual trips to production facilities.