Head of Product Design

Heidi Health

Head of Product Design leading design strategy and vision at AI healthcare startup. Partnering with team leaders to develop high-quality product across diverse clinical settings.

Posted 4/21/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own design strategy and vision across Heidi’s product suite
Lead, hire, and develop product designers embedded across clinical pods
Define how design works at Heidi: team architecture, ways of working, and how the discipline earns its seat in product strategy
Set craft standards through your own work
Own and evolve Heidi’s design system as product infrastructure
Partner with the Head of Brand to keep product and brand experience coherent
Work with PMs and engineering leads on complex clinical workflows
Run critiques that produce measurable improvement before anything ships
Hold design quality sign-off across all shipped surfaces

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years in product design, including 3+ years leading design teams
Your portfolio shows craft in every frame
You’ve built or evolved a design system that a team of 5+ actually used
Fluency with core LLM concepts and systems (prompting, fine-tuning, embeddings, retrieval, evaluation)
Strong opinions, weakly held; you’ll shift the room when you’re right
Data fluency with diagnostic teeth; you can read engagement data and distinguish a design problem from a product problem.

Benefits

Comp & perks

healthcare/dental/vision benefits
401k with 3% company match
$500 annual development budget
serious equity

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Hard Skills & Tools

product designdesign systemLLM conceptspromptingfine-tuningembeddingsretrievalevaluationdata fluencydesign quality

Soft Skills

leadershipteam developmentcollaborationcritique facilitationproblem-solvingcommunicationadaptabilitystrategic thinkingopinion formationmeasurable improvement