Lead Product Designer

- Own the product experience across our full web surface and future mobile app - from discovery to shipped product.

- Design end-to-end flows for complex productivity workflows (task management, collaboration, automation, analytics, etc.).

- Create and evolve Assemble's design system to enable us to ship with high velocity and quality.

- Prototype with modern AI tools like Cursor & Bolt to explore interactions, flows, and lightweight coded prototypes.

- Partner tightly with product & engineering to define problems, shape specs, and iterate quickly based on real usage.

- Run lean discovery - user interviews, lightweight usability tests, and rapid experiments to validate ideas.

- Champion craft & UX quality while still shipping quickly in a startup environment.

- Lay the foundations for a future design team, including processes, rituals, and documentation that others can build on.

- Deeply mission-driven and excited by the idea of making healthcare work better for the people who run it.

- Experienced product designer (typically 5-8+ years) with a strong portfolio of impactful work in productivity software.

- Demonstrated ability to simplify complex, multi-step workflows into intuitive, delightful experiences.

- Experience building or contributing to a design system (Figma libraries, tokens, component standards, usage guidelines).

- Comfortable working from problem definition to polished UI - strategy, IA, interaction design, visual design, and prototyping.

- Hands-on experience using modern AI tooling (e.g. Cursor, Bolt, or similar) to speed up exploration, prototyping, or implementation.

- Comfortable working quickly in high ambiguity: you're comfortable with vague problem spaces, shifting priorities, and 0→1 product work. Speed enables quality through tighter iteration cycles.

- Strong product sense: you think in terms of impact, trade-offs, and user outcomes, not just visual polish.

- Excellent communicator who can tell the story of your design decisions to both technical and non-technical teammates.

- Experience designing for healthcare, frontline workforces, or operational tools.

- Familiarity with mobile design patterns (iOS/Android) and designing with Shadcn components.

- Experience as an early design hire or working in a seed/Series A startup.

- Fast, iterative shipping - we bias toward small, frequent releases and learning from real usage.

- Low-ego collaboration - good ideas can come from anywhere; we debate, then commit.

- Ownership - as the first designer, you'll help define how design shows up at Assemble.

- Hybrid async/sync communication - thoughtful documentation, plus regular real-time design jams.