Vitalize

Staff Product Designer

San Francisco HQ · Staff+

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 63 days ago

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About the role

AI is increasingly carrying weight inside the product - recommendations, automation, audit trails - which raises the design ceiling and the design risk in equal measure.
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.
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.
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.

You've worked on a product surface where AI was doing real work, and you have an informed point of view on how AI should and shouldn't show its reasoning in a UI.
You enjoy critique, mentoring, and infrastructure work because of what they make possible for others.
Your portfolio is concept-heavy and ship-light, or you can't point to a system someone else built on

You've shipped real features to real users and can talk about the business impact of your work.
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.
The bar is whether your principle survives into the shipped product.
You're opinionated, evidence-backed, and direct.

Our platform brings real-time decision support to clinical leaders, eliminating manual work, reducing unnecessary labor spend, and unlocking patient capacity for hospitals.
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.

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