Product Designer - HealthTech

Who is Sam:

Sam connects startup-experienced professionals with high-growth companies through flexible, fractional and full-time engagements. Sam places operators and specialists who can step in quickly, work with urgency, and contribute meaningfully without the overhead of traditional hiring.

Role Overview:

We are looking for a Senior Product Designer with strong healthcare or digital health experience to help shape intuitive, high-impact user experiences in a regulated environment.

This role is ideal for a designer who understands how to balance user needs, clinical workflows, and business goals while translating complex healthcare journeys into clear, scalable product experiences.

This is a highly strategic and hands-on design role, suited for someone who can move seamlessly from early discovery and workflow mapping through polished, production-ready UI.

Core Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end product design across discovery, research synthesis, user flows, wireframes, and polished UI
• Design experiences across patient-facing applications, care journeys, and behavior-change workflows
• Build and maintain scalable design systems in Figma, including complex component libraries and reusable patterns
• Partner closely with product managers, clinicians, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders
• Translate ambiguous requirements into intuitive user journeys and production-ready interfaces
• Design for regulated healthcare environments, balancing usability, trust, accessibility, and compliance
• Facilitate alignment sessions, design reviews, and stakeholder feedback loops
• Incorporate data from multiple healthcare inputs, including labs, connected devices, remote monitoring, and self-reported data

Required Experience:

• Strong background in healthcare, health-tech, or digital health product design
• Experience designing patient-facing applications and healthcare workflows
• Deep expertise in Figma, including design systems, prototyping, and developer handoff
• Experience building scalable design systems and managing complex component libraries
• Strong cross-functional collaboration with product and engineering teams
• Ability to proactively shape product direction in ambiguous environments
• Exceptional communication and storytelling around design decisions
• Experience translating clinical or operational complexity into elegant product experiences

Preferred Background:

• Experience designing for:
• Patient-facing applications
• Chronic condition management
• Care pathways
• Remote monitoring workflows
• Behavior change journeys
• Experience working alongside clinicians, care teams, or healthcare operations stakeholders
• Familiarity with healthcare data flows from:
• Devices
• Labs
• EMRs / EHRs
• Self-reported patient inputs
• Background in highly regulated industries or compliance-heavy workflows
• Startup or high-growth product experience preferred

Why This Role:

This is an opportunity to design products that directly impact patient outcomes and healthcare experiences at scale.

If you thrive in complex, mission-driven environments and love turning clinical and behavioral complexity into elegant product experiences, this role is built for you.

Role Details:

• Part time - FTE
• Compensation: $2,500–$4,000/month
• Remote
• Mid to Senior Level
• 1099 Contract Role