Director of Product Design

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About the Role As Director of Product Design, you'll be a key leader shaping the innovation, growth, and user experience across Fabric's products. This pivotal role offers the chance to champion a user-centered design culture and lead a talented team in creating intuitive, effective solutions for our customers. You'll be instrumental in realizing Fabric’s full vision of a singular, integrated hybrid care journey, ensuring a cohesive and impactful user experience across all offerings. You'll blend strategic thinking with hands-on leadership, working closely with cross-functional product, engineering, clinical, and Go-to-Market teams. This includes building vital relationships with our customers, reaching up to hospital C-suite executives. This is an exciting opportunity to get on the ground floor of a fast-paced startup, define what it means to enable the health systems of the future to do their best work, and significantly improve patient and provider lives through impactful design and a deep understanding of human healthcare processes. We thrive on vigorous conversation and deep research, alongside a clear focus on getting things done. What You'll Do As a Director of Product Design, you will be instrumental in leading our design function. Your primary responsibilities will include: Guiding and growing a multidisciplinary team of product and brand designers, shaping a culture of curiosity, craftsmanship, and collaboration. Owning the end-to-end design process across all Fabric products—driving from insight to execution to ensure cohesive, user-centered experiences. Working closely with product management, engineering, and other stakeholders to understand user needs, define product requirements, and translate them into effective design solutions and implementation plans. Developing and maintaining a deep understanding of Fabric’s products and functioning as a subject matter expert on product design, user experience, and relevant market trends to drive customer solution development. Ensuring solutions are scalable, efficient, and deliver maximum value to customers, with a clear emphasis on standard capabilities and intuitive design. Driving user research and ensuring solutions have been tested prior to build, making this an integral part of the design process. Identifying opportunities to improve the efficiency, scalability, and quality of design processes and deliverables, with a focus on streamlining workflows and enhancing design impact. Partnering with marketing to develop compelling materials and messaging that accurately reflect our product’s design philosophy and value proposition. Driving the design vision and contributing to the design system, collaborating with engineering to ensure scalable implementation and continuous refinement. Why You Might Be a Good Fit You are a leader who thrives on both strategic thinking and hands-on execution. You are deeply motivated by the challenge of championing a user-centered design culture in a fast-paced, startup environment. You excel at building strong relationships with cross-functional teams and C-suite executives to drive a cohesive product vision. You are passionate about defining what it means to enable the health systems of the future through impactful and intuitive design. You are a natural collaborator who enjoys vigorous conversation and deep research, with a clear focus on getting things done. This Might Not Be The Right Fit If... You prefer a highly structured environment and are not comfortable with the ambiguity of a fast-paced startup. You are not energized by the dual responsibility of hands-on design work and leading a team. Your experience is not focused on designing and delivering complex, enterprise-level solutions. You are not motivated by the specific mission of improving patient and provider lives through healthcare technology. Your Qualifications Bachelor's degree in User Design, UX, or a related field. 8+ years of experience in product design, with a portfolio showcasing expertise in UX, UI, and user-centered design principles. 5+ years of experience leading and managing a product design team, including UX, UI, and brand designers. A deep understanding of the healthcare industry, including healthcare workflows, data standards (e.g., HL7, FHIR), and regulatory requirements (e.g., HIPAA), with a focus on how design can improve user interaction with complex systems. Demonstrated ability to design and deliver complex, enterprise-level solutions, with a clear emphasis on user experience, visual design, and interaction design. Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively communicate design concepts and rationale to both technical and non-technical audiences. Analytical and problem-solving skills, with a focus on delivering user-centered solutions in complex technical environments. Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic startup environment. Bonus Points Demonstrated experience working for a fast-paced, growing startup and thriving in a 0-to-1 environment. Experience designing for healthcare applications.
The national pay range for this role is $140,000.00 – $175,000.00 per year. Actual compensation will be determined by factors such as the candidate's geographic market, experience, skills, and qualifications. Certain roles may also be eligible for additional compensation, including a comprehensive benefits package such as medical, dental, vision, unlimited PTO, and a 401(k) plan, stock options and bonuses. If your compensation requirement is greater than our posted range, please still consider applying; a determination can be made based on unique qualifications. Expected compensation ranges for this role may change over time.
PI278056512
Location:
New York
Job Type:
FullTime

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