About the Role:
We're looking for a thoughtful and versatile Lead Product Designer to join our fast-growing team. You'll shape the user experience of our digital care platform - from customer acquisition to onboarding to ongoing patient engagement. Your work will directly improve the lives of individuals and families dealing with behavioral addictions, and integrate immediately with company leadership. The role is full-time, based in our office in the heart of Flatiron, NYC and reports directly to the CEO.
What you'll do:
- Design authoritative, empathetic and engaging experiences to make care as accessible as possible for current and potential clients, including mobile web, email, social media content
- Collaborate with product, engineering, marketing and clinical teams to take features from concept to launch
- Talk to users, run lightweight research, and use the resulting insights to drive product design decisions and iterate quickly based on feedback
- Create and evangelize the brand's information architecture and design language for the entire patient (and provider) journey
- Stay adjacent to industry trends but also maintain space to innovate for the specific needs of our patients
Who you are:
- 4+ years experience in Product / UX Design, designing for mobile and/or responsive web apps
- Figma is second nature; motion/illustration skills a plus
- Demonstrated history of delivering world-class product design and seeing ideas to fruition
- Value clean UX, but you're primarily driven by real impact and behavioral change
- Excited by being the voice for the patient
- Leadership traits and an ability to push ideas to fruition
- A clear communicator who thrives in cross-functional teams
- Curious, fast-moving, and comfortable with ambiguity
- Customer obsession, high empathy
Bonuses for:
- Interest/experience in psychology, health tech, or digital care
- Demonstrated passion for the power of branding and the value of performance marketing
- Experience of designing a brand identity from the ground up
- Experience in and excitement for early stage (series A) startup
All roles are based in office 5 days per week. Office is located in Flatiron, NYC.
What you'll get from us (on top of the usual startup perks!):
- Design that matters – Your work won't just make pixels pretty, it'll change how millions of people access life-saving care
- Real ownership – Step in as our first design leader and shape the product, brand, and patient journey from day one
- Startup energy + solid backing – Move fast, experiment boldly, and know you're supported by top healthcare and tech investors
- A seat at the table – Work directly with the CEO and leadership team. Your ideas won't just be heard, they'll drive the company forward
- Room to grow big – This is your chance to build the design function at scale, grow your leadership chops, and put your stamp on one of the fasted growing health tech startups in the country
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About Birches Health:
Online gambling has taken over the US. More than 175m Americans now regularly bet on sports and the rates of gambling addiction have skyrocketed since online gambling's legalization. As widespread gambling creates record levels of addiction, debt, and bankruptcy, millions of problem gamblers still cannot access specialized, comprehensive care that they desperately need.
At Birches Health, we're beating the online gambling epidemic with virtual therapy for gambling addiction from specialized clinicians. Our care is covered by insurance and state funding to ensure access to treatment for problem gamblers. We work with patients throughout their gambling addiction journey to improve clinical outcomes and reduce healthcare costs.
Our mission is to build the medical and technological infrastructure for behavioral addiction in the US to make sure millions of patients receive the highest quality clinical outcomes and path to recovery they deserve. We're backed by leading healthcare and gaming investors including General Catalyst, AlleyCorp, Will Ventures, Defy, and C-suite angels at private and public companies.
Join us to bring addiction care into the present day.