Senior Product Designer

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.

We’re building the core operating system for hospital workforce operations — competing directly with legacy HR/ERP platforms. And we’re winning. We’re already live across 20+ hospitals, near 8‑figures in revenue, and have raised funding from top investors. We’ve 3× revenue in the last 3 months, and are scaling fast.

You’ll be the second product designer at Vitalize, joining our founding designer to scale how we design, build, and ship product.

• Own complex product surfaces. The core of this role is designing data‑dense interfaces that hospital staff rely on every day, like shift schedules, staffing dashboards, configuration tools, recommendation systems. Simplify these workflows and flatten learning curves.
• Build the design system alongside the founding designer. We’re at the beginning of this journey. We have a component library in Figma, a Tailwind codebase, and a growing gap between them. Help close that gap: build reusable components, establish color and spacing standards, create patterns that let engineers build correctly without waiting for design.
• Work directly with customers. Design at Vitalize starts with real workflows, not requirement docs. Visit hospitals, observe how nurses and staffing offices actually work, and use that context to shape what we build.
• Partner closely with engineering. Our senior engineers ship fast. Collaborate through the build, make tradeoffs together, and care about what actually ships to production. At Vitalize, quality is everyone’s responsibility.

• 6+ years of product design experience, ideally on complex, workflow‑heavy B2B SaaS products. Shipped real features to real users and can articulate the business impact of your work, not just design rationale.
• Strong product instincts. Rethink problems from first principles rather than layering fixes on existing patterns. When you see a crowded interface, question whether the information architecture is right.
• Opinionated and direct. Form a point of view quickly, back it up with evidence, and push back when you think the product is heading in the wrong direction.
• Design systems experience. Built or contributed to component libraries, token systems, or pattern documentation. Understand how design infrastructure scales and why it matters for engineering velocity.
• Customer‑obsessed in practice. Did field research: went to where users work, saw the problems they face, and used that context to shape what you built.

• You’ve only worked on consumer products.
• You need detailed specs or PRDs to start designing.
• You’re looking for a remote role.
• Your portfolio doesn’t include shipped work that contributed to business outcomes.

Experience in healthcare, logistics, or similarly complex operational domains is a plus, but not required. The domain is deep but learnable.

We’re at the stage where every design decision compounds. The patterns we set today, in the design system, in how we collaborate with engineering, in the quality bar we hold, will shape the product for years. You’d be joining at the moment where the team is small enough to influence everything, and the company is growing fast enough that your work will scale to thousands of users across dozens of hospitals.

You’d be working alongside a founding designer who built the product from scratch and knows the domain deeply, a CTO who cares about design quality and gives the team real autonomy, and an engineering team that ships fast and wants to get better at building well‑designed software.

• 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