Design Lead

Primary Responsibilities

• Build the design function.
  • Establish design standards, a component library, and a shared design system that works across two distinct platforms.
  • Own the end-to-end user experience for both platforms.
• Cerbo is a power-user, configuration-heavy product. OptiMantra is clean, guided, and role-based. You hold the UX vision for each without letting them blur.
• Partner closely with Product and Engineering. You sit in discovery, review specs, challenge assumptions, and push for better solutions.
• Design is not a service desk here; it is a strategic function.
• Talk to users. Clinicians, practice managers, front-desk staff. You run usability sessions, observe workflows in the wild, and bring user evidence into every design decision.
• Design for AI. Intelligent workflows and predictive tooling are on the roadmap. You will shape how AI shows up in the product experience.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 7+ years of product design experience, with at least 2 leading a design team or function.
• You still design every week, and you like it that way.
• A portfolio that shows range: complex workflows, data-dense screens, onboarding flows, and clean consumer-grade UI.
• Bonus if it includes healthcare or clinical software.
• Systems thinker. You build design systems, not just screens. You see the patterns across features and create consistency without killing creativity.
• Strong in both UX and UI, and an expert in Figma.
• You can map a clinical workflow end to end and make it look beautiful at the same time.
• Experience managing designers (employees or contractors).
• You set direction, give sharp feedback, and manage quality and throughput without micromanaging.
• Comfortable working across two products with different design philosophies. Cerbo is dense and power-user oriented. OptiMantra is clean and guided. You respect the difference.
• Technically fluent enough to partner with front-end engineers on implementation, and a clear communicator who presents design rationale to PMs, engineers, and leadership with conviction.
• You understand responsive design, accessibility, and what is feasible in a sprint.
• You use AI in your own design process (prototyping, research synthesis, content generation) and can point to concrete examples.
• AI fluency is a baseline expectation here, not a bonus.
• Bonus points Healthcare, EHR/EMR, or clinical software design experience.
• Experience designing AI-powered features (ambient documentation, clinical decision support, intelligent automation).
• Experience building a design system from zero in a multi-product environment.
• Motion design or prototyping skills (Framer, Principle, or similar).