Director, Product Design – Core Product

Role Overview

• Lead product design for the core experience. Define the core experience of the Abridge’s AI-powered clinician’s assistant across native and embedded experiences. Your team will design simple user experiences to clinicians that meaningfully reduce administrative work for clinicians. By being the most clinician-centric company in the space, Abridge will stay two steps ahead of the competition.
• Drive design quality. Design from first principles, bringing clarity and simplicity to complex product and clinical workflows. Set and uphold a high bar for visual craft, interaction design, prototyping, AI fluency, and design systems. Lead the creation of a scalable design system that ensures user experience quality, consistency, and engineering velocity across products.
• Lead and scale a world class product design team that can span strategy, crafting pixels, and shipping code. Inspire a team of product designers to do the best work of their careers. Designers on your team will partner closely with UXR & Product to drive user-centric product strategy, sweat the details over user experience quality, and also fluently use AI tools and ship code. The person who joins this role will feel confident in holding design to this bar.
• Partner cross-functionally to deliver impact Collaborate deeply with Product, UXR, Engineering, Marketing, and Clinical Success to shape strategy and deliver cohesive, end-to-end experiences. Balance long-term product vision with a strong weekly shipping cadence. Ensure design is integrated early and meaningfully in the product development lifecycle.

Requirements

• 5 to 10+ years of product design experience who is comfortable operating at both strategic and tactical levels—setting vision while reviewing pixels.
• Experience managing product designers and a track record of hiring and scaling high performance product design teams.
• Strong craft fluency across product thinking, interaction design, visual design, design systems, communication, & AI prototyping
• Ability to balance long term vision with near term improvements and constraints
• Strong communication skills and the ability to translate complex clinician workflows into clear narratives and points of view on what matters most.
• A leader who is motivated by ambiguity, moves fast, and inspires others to do the same.

Benefits

• Generous Time Off: 14 paid holidays, flexible PTO for salaried employees, and accrued time off for hourly employees
• Comprehensive Health Plans: Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage for all full-time employees and their families.
• Generous HSA Contribution: If you choose a High Deductible Health Plan, Abridge makes monthly contributions to your HSA.
• Paid Parental Leave: Generous paid parental leave for all full-time employees.
• Family Forming Benefits: Resources and financial support to help you build your family.
• 401(k) Matching: Contribution matching to help invest in your future.
• Personal Device Allowance: Tax free funds for personal device usage.
• Pre-tax Benefits: Access to Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Commuter Benefits.
• Lifestyle Wallet: Monthly contributions for fitness, professional development, coworking, and more.
• Mental Health Support: Dedicated access to therapy and coaching to help you reach your goals.
• Sabbatical Leave: Paid Sabbatical Leave after 5 years of employment.
• Compensation and Equity: Competitive compensation and equity grants for full time employees.
• ... and much more!