Director of Product Design

About The Role

As Director of Product Design, you'll be a key leader shaping the innovation, growth, and user experience across Fabric's products. This pivotal role offers the chance to champion a user-centered design culture and lead a talented team in creating intuitive, effective solutions for our customers. You'll be instrumental in realizing Fabric’s full vision of a singular, integrated hybrid care journey, ensuring a cohesive and impactful user experience across all offerings. You'll blend strategic thinking with hands-on leadership, working closely with cross-functional product, engineering, clinical, and Go-to-Market teams. This includes building vital relationships with our customers, reaching up to hospital C-suite executives. This is an exciting opportunity to get on the ground floor of a fast-paced startup, define what it means to enable the health systems of the future to do their best work, and significantly improve patient and provider lives through impactful design and a deep understanding of human healthcare processes. We thrive on vigorous conversation and deep research, alongside a clear focus on getting things done.

What You'Ll Do

As a Director of Product Design, you will be instrumental in leading our design function. Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Guiding and growing a multidisciplinary team of product and brand designers, shaping a culture of curiosity, craftsmanship, and collaboration.
• Owning the end-to-end design process across all Fabric products—driving from insight to execution to ensure cohesive, user-centered experiences.
• Working closely with product management, engineering, and other stakeholders to understand user needs, define product requirements, and translate them into effective design solutions and implementation plans.
• Developing and maintaining a deep understanding of Fabric’s products and functioning as a subject matter expert on product design, user experience, and relevant market trends to drive customer solution development.
• Ensuring solutions are scalable, efficient, and deliver maximum value to customers, with a clear emphasis on standard capabilities and intuitive design.
• Driving user research and ensuring solutions have been tested prior to build, making this an integral part of the design process.
• Identifying opportunities to improve the efficiency, scalability, and quality of design processes and deliverables, with a focus on streamlining workflows and enhancing design impact.
• Partnering with marketing to develop compelling materials and messaging that accurately reflect our product’s design philosophy and value proposition.
• Driving the design vision and contributing to the design system, collaborating with engineering to ensure scalable implementation and continuous refinement.

Why You Might Be A Good Fit

• You are a leader who thrives on both strategic thinking and hands-on execution.
• You are deeply motivated by the challenge of championing a user-centered design culture in a fast-paced, startup environment.
• You excel at building strong relationships with cross-functional teams and C-suite executives to drive a cohesive product vision.
• You are passionate about defining what it means to enable the health systems of the future through impactful and intuitive design.
• You are a natural collaborator who enjoys vigorous conversation and deep research, with a clear focus on getting things done.

This Might Not Be The Right Fit If...

• You prefer a highly structured environment and are not comfortable with the ambiguity of a fast-paced startup.
• You are not energized by the dual responsibility of hands-on design work and leading a team.
• Your experience is not focused on designing and delivering complex, enterprise-level solutions.
• You are not motivated by the specific mission of improving patient and provider lives through healthcare technology.

Your Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in User Design, UX, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in product design, with a portfolio showcasing expertise in UX, UI, and user-centered design principles.
• 5+ years of experience leading and managing a product design team, including UX, UI, and brand designers.
• A deep understanding of the healthcare industry, including healthcare workflows, data standards (e.g., HL7, FHIR), and regulatory requirements (e.g., HIPAA), with a focus on how design can improve user interaction with complex systems.
• Demonstrated ability to design and deliver complex, enterprise-level solutions, with a clear emphasis on user experience, visual design, and interaction design.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively communicate design concepts and rationale to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills, with a focus on delivering user-centered solutions in complex technical environments.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic startup environment.

Bonus Points

• Demonstrated experience working for a fast-paced, growing startup and thriving in a 0-to-1 environment.
• Experience designing for healthcare applications.

The National Pay Range For This Role Is $140,000.00 – $175,000.00 Per Year. Actual Compensation Will Be Determined By Factors Such As The Candidate'S Geographic Market, Experience, Skills, And Qualifications. Certain Roles May Also Be Eligible For Additional Compensation, Including A Comprehensive Benefits Package Such As Medical, Dental, Vision, Unlimited Pto, And A 401(K) Plan, Stock Options And Bonuses. If Your Compensation Requirement Is Greater Than Our Posted Range, Please Still Consider Applying; A Determination Can Be Made Based On Unique Qualifications. Expected Compensation Ranges For This Role May Change Over Time.