Staff Product Designer

About the Opportunity

As a Staff Product Designer, you will hold a highly influential position, owning the design of systems central to clinical interpretation, decision-making, and treatment planning. This role demands mastery of complex medical domain knowledge, high autonomy, and an exceptional blend of Product Design craft spanning Visual Design, UX, and Design Strategy. Cleerly is a highly innovative AI-powered SaMD company, and we seek a designer who thrives on transforming the complexity of cardiology and radiology workflows into outstanding, feasible, and compliant user experiences that support clinicians to improve patient outcomes.

About the Team

Cleerly's leadership in cardiovascular care innovation and product development offers significant opportunities for passionate and mission-driven individuals. You will join a high-performing Product Design function that is valued and supported by executive leadership. We are committed to driving measurable impact across our products with a focus on improving customer delight, increasing adoption and ensuring scalability. 

Responsibilities

• End-to-End Product Design: Lead the entire design lifecycle, driving projects from discovery through launch, managing deadlines, and facilitating stakeholder alignment.
• Define Strategic Platform Vision: Solve ambiguous, complex issues that impact multiple program roadmaps. Lead conceptual thinking across the entire platform, translating broad strategic business goals and technical capabilities into scalable design solutions, and presenting to executive leadership.
• Information Architecture: Drive architectural UI choices by an informed and robust information architecture map that represents how target users identify and organize information.
• AI Experience Design: Partner closely with AI and Engineering to leverage and translate AI/ML algorithm output into the user experience, focusing on solutions for model explainability and interpretability to build clinical trust and support decision-making.
• User Research & Human Factors: Autonomously plan and conduct extensive user research with representative users, formative usability evaluations, and support human factors validation studies for regulatory submissions.
• Feasible Design Delivery: Work closely with Engineering & Product Management teams to understand technical constraints, ensuring final designs are feasible and optimized for efficient implementation.
• Risk-based Design:  Participate proactively in use-related risk analyses and pursuit design solutions that reduce or eliminate risk.  Understand how UI changes impact critical tasks, human factors validations, and regulatory submissions.
• Design System Stewardship: Actively contribute to and steward the evolution of our Cleerly Design System, ensuring speed, consistency, and quality. Embrace and enhance the design token schema, UI component library, product lexicon, and UX writing guidelines.  Champion brand and accessibility compliance through systems thinking.
• Strategic Influence & Communication: Serve as a core thought partner to Product Management, Engineering, and Clinical teams, employing effective communication and presentation skills to translate complex requirements and rationale into clear, engaging narratives.

Required Qualifications & Skills 

• 12+ years of professional experience in Product Design, with a strong portfolio demonstrating mastery in designing regulated clinical products or products in regulated or highly complex domains.
• Demonstrated excellence in Product Design Craft, encompassing strategy, research, information architecture, interaction design, visual design, and human factors.
• Past experience creating user experiences that integrate AI/ML models.
• Proven ability to own complex product initiatives from concept to launch with high autonomy and clearly demonstrating the resulting business and user impact upon delivery.
• Proven expertise in planning, conducting, and synthesizing complex user research and formative usability evaluations within a regulated context.
• Expert proficiency with Figma, design systems, and familiarity with user research tools and insight processing.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, innovative startup environment where change is constant, maintaining a positive attitude toward ambiguity in roles and tasks.

Additional Requirements

• Experience in the MedTech, HealthTech or other domains with complex data and specialized workflows.
• Experience contributing to 510(k) submissions or working in a regulated SaMD development environment.

• Experience designing applications involving medical imaging or large-scale scientific data.
• Strong background in managing the product lifecycle from development through launch and post-market support.

• Experience leveraging AI tools to improve daily workflows, research activities, and wireframe outputs.
• Soft skills to professionally represent Cleerly to research participants and customers.

The base salary range for this role varies by location and is aligned to market benchmarks.

• Candidates located in higher-cost labor markets, including California, Washington, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Washington, DC represent the middle to high end of the range, while candidates located in all other U.S. locations represent the low to middle end of the range.
• Final compensation is determined based on location, experience, skills, and internal equity.

This role is eligible for a 15% target annual bonus, resulting in the following base salary and Total Target Compensation (TTC) ranges:

• Base Salary: $218,000 - $228,000
• TTC: $219,000 - $250,000

*Total Target Compensation (TTC): Total Cash Compensation (including base pay, variable pay, commission, bonuses, etc.) Additionally, stock options, paid benefits, and employee perks are part of your total rewards.