USD per year
Staff Product Designer
Location
San Francisco HQ
Employment Type
Full time
Location Type
Hybrid
Department
Product & Eng
Compensation
- $230K – $300K • Offers Equity
The listed compensation applies to candidates who will be based out of or relocating to San Francisco Bay Area, CA. Compensation for remote candidates residing outside of the bay area is determined by location tiers and corresponding benchmarks. These tiers are based on cost of labor—not cost of living.
The problem
Hospitals still run their most important operations — staffing, labor planning, and capacity — on paper, spreadsheets, and guesswork. It's a system that wastes thousands of hours and millions of dollars every year. Vitalize replaces this with intelligent, automated staffing operations. Our platform brings real-time decision support to clinical leaders, eliminating manual work, reducing unnecessary labor spend, and unlocking patient capacity for hospitals. AI is increasingly carrying weight inside the product — recommendations, automation, audit trails — which raises the design ceiling and the design risk in equal measure. We're already live across 20+ hospitals, near 8-figures in revenue, and have raised $34M in total funding from top investors. We’re scaling fast.
The role
You'll be the third product designer at Vitalize, joining to scale how design operates across the company. This is a leading IC role; your impact is measured by what the rest of the team builds because of the infrastructure, patterns, and examples you ship. 1. You'll own complex product surfaces that cross pod boundaries. Recommendation surfaces, AI-driven workflows, data-dense decision-support tools that span the central staffing office, the unit manager, and the nurse. 2. You'll set the standards the team adopts. Taste documents. Pattern examples. Critique norms. The way design rationale gets written, the way design and engineering resolve disagreement, the way customer evidence shapes product moves. 3. You'll work directly with customers. Design at Vitalize starts with real workflows. You'll visit hospitals, observe how nurse managers and staffing offices actually work, and use that context to shape what we build. 4. You'll shape how the design team grows. Hiring loops, critique culture, onboarding patterns, and design operating principles. You’ll contribute input on who joins the team, how quality is maintained, and how design partners with product and engineering as we scale. 5. You'll set the pace for how Vitalize uses design systems: Components, tokens, patterns, contribution model, documentation, the relationship between Figma and the Tailwind codebase. Engineers are shipping correctly on their own, designers are shipping faster, and the average craft level of the product rising because of work you did.
Who you are
- You have 8+ years of product design experience, ideally on complex, workflow-heavy B2B SaaS products. You've shipped real features to real users and can talk about the business impact of your work.
- You've owned a design system or comparable infrastructure that other people built on top of. You've designed the contribution model, not just the components. You can talk about the tradeoffs you made.
- You’re comfortable spending time in the field. You enjoy observing operational workflows firsthand and are willing to travel to customer sites regularly to understand the reality of how the product is used.
- You have mature product instincts. When you see a crowded interface, your instinct is to question whether the workflow is right. You design workflow changes, not just UI improvements. The bar is whether your principle survives into the shipped product.
- You're opinionated, evidence-backed, and direct. You form a point of view quickly... hold line when disagreeing... build strong relationships.
- You're customer-obsessed in practice, with an instinct for business outcomes...
- You're AI-fluent...
- You're a multiplier from day one...
You might not be right fit if: ...
Experience in healthcare... logistics... financial operations... strong plus.
Why now ...
You'd be joining a small design team at moment it scales...
Compensation & benefits
- Competitive salary + equity
- Medical,dental,and vision insurance
- 401(k) with match
- Flexible PTO
- Bi-annual company retreats
- Free lunch and dinner in-office
- Reimbursement for desk setup,gym,and commute
Compensation Range: $230K - $300K
Vitalize is an AI platform that transforms how health systems optimize labor, supercharging capacity and operations. It unifies staffing, scheduling, flow, and capacity to replace reactive processes with proactive, optimized operations. Vitalize works as a true operating partner to health systems with deep integration and robust change management. The platform interfaces with existing HR, payroll, T&A, and EMR systems. Core features include AI-Powered Scheduling, Command Center for Staffing Offices, Flow and Capacity Optimization, and Predictive Analytics. The company emphasizes forward deployment with on-site teams from day 1 to drive change management and ROI. Vitalize operates across acute, procedural, and ambulatory care.
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