Head of Design

About the role

Elation Health exists to enable every patient to experience the highest quality care wherever they go in the healthcare system. We build technology for independent primary care practices and the physicians, clinicians, and teams who care for their patients every day. Our platform brings together a clinical-first EHR, intelligent automation, billing, patient engagement, and the workflows that help primary care practices deliver excellent care and build sustainable businesses. The work is consequential: when our products are clear, trustworthy, and well designed, clinicians can spend more time focused on patients and less time fighting their tools. Primary care is foundational to a healthy healthcare system, yet the technology supporting it is often fragmented, burdensome, and disconnected from the realities of clinical work. At Elation, Design has the opportunity to make the experience of practicing medicine meaningfully better—while helping independent primary care remain strong, sustainable, and human. We are seeking a passionate Design leader to drive our design strategy, build a strongly capable Design organization, raise the quality and coherence of the product experience, and use AI-native ways of working to deliver more intuitive, trusted, and impactful experiences for clinicians and practices at scale. If you’re excited about shaping the next generation of AI-native primary care technology, this role is for you.

The opportunity

As Head of Design, you will set the vision, standards, and operating model for Design at Elation. You will lead a talented team of product designers and design partners, work closely with Product and Engineering leadership, and bring a strong design point of view to company strategy and product decisions. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who can move comfortably between the strategic and the concrete: defining a coherent experience across a complex product, coaching designers through difficult problems, raising the quality bar, and ensuring the details hold up in the hands of real clinicians. You will report to the Chief Product Officer and serve as a senior voice in the Product Development organization. The title and scope will be calibrated to the experience and demonstrated impact of the person we hire.

What you’ll do

• Set and communicate a clear design vision for Elation’s product experience, grounded in our clinical-first principles and the realities of primary care.
• Lead and shape an AI-native Design organization with a durable operating model for how designers, agents, and cross-functional teams work together to create higher-quality experiences at greater speed. Elation is already well on this journey, with AI-native product strategy, evolving design systems, and emerging AI-assisted design-review practices.
• Build a high-performing Design function: clarify roles and responsibilities, establish effective operating rhythms, create growth paths, and hire and retain exceptional design talent.
• Partner with the CPO, product leaders, engineering leaders, and executive stakeholders to translate company strategy into a focused product experience strategy and roadmap.
• Raise the quality bar across the end-to-end user experience, including research, service design, product strategy, interaction design, visual design, content, accessibility, and customer enablement.
• Strengthen the systems that allow design to scale: principles, patterns, documentation, design systems, research practices, reusable frameworks, and the connection between design artifacts