# Staff Product Designer

**Company:** [Vitalize](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/vitalize)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Product Design
**Salary:** $230k – $300k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Figma, Design Systems, Component Libraries, Design Tokens, Tailwind, Ai/Ml Product Design, B2B Saas Design, Workflow Design, User Research, Cross-Functional Collaboration
**Posted:** 2026-05-20

> Lead IC Product Designer shaping design systems, AI-driven workflows, and complex operational tools for a B2B SaaS healthcare staffing platform. Own infrastructure, set team standards, and drive design quality across engineering and product.

## Job Description

## The Role

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'll own complex product surfaces that cross pod boundaries. Recommendation surfaces, AI-driven workflows, data-dense decision-support tools that span the central staffing office, the unit manager, and the nurse.

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 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.

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 set the pace for how Vitalize uses design systems: Components, tokens, patterns, contribution model, documentation, the relationship between Figma and the Tailwind codebase. Engineers are shipping correctly on their own, designers are shipping faster, and the average craft level of the product rising because of work you did.

## Who You Are

- 8+ years of product design experience, ideally on complex, workflow-heavy B2B SaaS products. You've shipped real features to real users and can talk about the business impact of your work.
- Owned a design system or comparable infrastructure that other people built on top of. You've designed the contribution model, not just the components. You can talk about the tradeoffs you made.
- 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.
- Mature product instincts. When you see a crowded interface, your instinct is to question whether the workflow is right. You design workflow changes, not just UI improvements. The bar is whether your principle survives into the shipped product.
- Opinionated, evidence-backed, and direct. You form a point of view quickly, back it up with what you've observed in the field, and hold the line when you disagree with engineers, founders, or customers, all while building strong relationships.
- Customer-obsessed in practice, with an instinct for business outcomes. You can name the metrics your design moves were built to change and defend the bridge between the design and the metric.
- AI-fluent. 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.
- A multiplier from day one. You enjoy critique, mentoring, and infrastructure work because of what they make possible for others.

## Nice to Have

- Experience in healthcare, logistics, financial operations, or similarly complex operational domains is a strong plus — the operating-model pattern in our product (expert-in-the-loop workflow automation, cost-aware recommendations, audit-trail integrity) translates directly. The domain is deep but learnable.

## Compensation & Benefits

- 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

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