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 reasonably estimated annual base salary range for this full-time role in New York is $140,000.00 - $175,000.00. Our total compensation package is designed to be competitive and includes a base salary, with eligibility for variable compensation, and a stock options package. Additionally, Fabric provides a comprehensive healthcare package (medical, dental, vision) and unlimited PTO. Please note that the base salary range provided is a guideline, representing what we reasonably expect to pay for this role at the time of posting; the actual total compensation offer will be determined based on various factors, including, but not limited to, the applicant's qualifications, skills, experiences, and location.
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