Head of Design

Elation Health
United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 200,000 - 260,000 annuallyFunction: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)Skills: ["Design leadership","Org design","Coaching","Communication","Storytelling"]

Lead the design vision and operating model for Elation’s AI-native product experience. Build and scale a high-performing design organization, raise the quality bar across research through visual design and accessibility, and partner with Product and Engineering to ensure design intent survives implementation. Embed rigorous user research with clinicians and practice teams, strengthen design systems and review practices for faster, better decisions, and represent the design perspective in senior leadership to improve usability, coherence, and confidence.

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Elation Health
Elation Health
23 hours ago

Head of Design

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Job Summary

Lead the design vision and operating model for Elation’s AI-native product experience. Build and scale a high-performing design organization, raise the quality bar across research through visual design and accessibility, and partner with Product and Engineering to ensure design intent survives implementation. Embed rigorous user research with clinicians and practice teams, strengthen design systems and review practices for faster, better decisions, and represent the design perspective in senior leadership to improve usability, coherence, and confidence.
Location: United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)
Seniority: Sr. Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Set and communicate a clear design vision rooted in clinical-first principles and the realities of primary care.
  • •Build and shape an AI-native Design organization and operating model, clarifying roles and responsibilities and establishing effective rhythms.
  • •Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to translate company strategy into product experience strategy and roadmap, ensuring design intent survives implementation.
  • •Raise the quality bar end-to-end across user research, service design, product strategy, interaction design, visual design, content, accessibility, and customer enablement.
  • •Strengthen design scalability systems including principles, patterns, documentation, and design reviews; foster clinician and practice empathy through rigorous research and co-design.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 200,000 - 260,000 annually

Key Requirements

  • •Significant experience leading product design in a complex, multi-surface, or highly regulated environment, ideally including healthcare or health technology.
  • •Proven track record building, scaling, or materially strengthening a design organization, including hiring, coaching, org design, and talent development.
  • •Strong product judgment with the ability to connect design decisions to customer outcomes, business strategy, and technical realities.
  • •Deep fluency across the UX stack, including research, service design, information architecture, interaction design, visual design, systems thinking, and design operations.
  • •Experience partnering effectively with Product and Engineering leaders and influencing decisions beyond the Design function.
Experience:HealthcareHealth technologyEnterprise SaaS
Skills:Design leadershipOrg designCoachingCommunicationStorytelling
Languages:En

Company Brief

Elation Health
Builds electronic health record (EHR) and practice management software for primary care teams, focusing on clinician workflow, longitudinal patient records, telehealth, and care coordination to improve value-based primary care delivery.
Industry: HealthTech
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2010
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