Senior Product Design Strategist

• 8+ years of experience solving complex, ambiguous problems across product management, design, and/or research, including a track record of owning outcomes at a multi-team level.
• 3-5 years of demonstrated success carrying work from 0 to 1 — defining new products or experiences from an undefined problem space through to a shipped, measurable result.
• A strong, evidence-based point of view, with the judgment to reconcile research, data, engineering, and business input into a clear direction — and the conviction to defend it and the humility to revise it.
• 3-5 years of experience owning a multi-quarter roadmap and communicating it persuasively to executive and cross-functional audiences, including budget and prioritization conversations.
• High craft in at least 2 specialist areas (design, product management, strategy, research, or operations), with genuine working fluency across the others.
• Excellence in prototyping, and fluency with modern AI-assisted prototyping and building tools (e.g., Claude Code, Claude Design, Figma Make, Cursor, Lovable, or similar) — this is a required, hands-on craft skill for this role, not a nice-to-have.
• Experience partnering with clinical, legal, regulatory, or other high-stakes compliance functions in health, wellness, fintech, or another regulated domain.
• Excellent executive communication and stakeholder management skills, with a 3-5 year track record of influencing decisions across senior leadership.
• Experience mentoring or informally leading other ICs, even without formal people-management responsibility.
• Fluency with AI orchestration and prompting across design, spec, and analysis work, and comfort pulling data directly from self-serve analytics tools.
• Experience designing or leading strategy for clinical, care delivery, or chronic condition management experiences.
• Experience building production-adjacent or fully coded prototypes.
• A background as a specialist in 2 areas (Design, PM, or Research) who has deliberately broadened into other health or technology disciplines rather than staying siloed.
• Experience in a startup setting, operating like a builder — self-driven, biased toward action, and energized by owning problems from discovery through launch.
• Experience running vendor and partner evaluations, including build-vs-buy business cases.

What this role is not:

To protect focus, Product + Design Strategists are not expected to own all day-to-day project coordination and status reporting (Product Ops and automated tooling own the checklist and cross-team chase once you've made the go/no-go call), detailed design of every screen and flow (owned by UX Design and Engineering, enabled by design-system-aware prototyping and coding tools), high-volume or specialized content production (owned by the content platform team), or administrative backlog upkeep (AI-assisted or Eng-owned). Formal people management of other Strategists sits with Product + Design Directors; Strategists at this level lead through influence, craft, and mentorship rather than direct reports.

• Product + Design Strategists are T-shaped: every Strategist can operate across all of this at a working level
• and leans deeper into a Design
• or operational specialty depending on the scope they're leading. The craft toolkit a Product + Design Strategist draws on includes:
• Prototyping — low- to high-fidelity mockups and click-through flows to test and communicate ideas, including coded experiences that give users and stakeholders a more immersive way to test.
• Visual & interaction design — applying design system components, typography, and interaction patterns to real screens and other touchpoints; drafting microcopy and in-product messaging.
• Writing PRDs/specs — documenting functional requirements and success metrics for engineering handoff.
• Backlog grooming & sprint planning — writing and prioritizing tickets, estimating scope with engineering.
• Product/design/research documentation — maintaining decision logs and research repositories so knowledge supports entire teams.
• Accessibility & QA review — checking designs and built product against accessibility standards.
• AI orchestration & prompting fluency — directing AI tools effectively across design, spec, and analysis work.
• Data-informed strategy — interpreting quantitative and qualitative data, such as product analytics and clinical outcomes, to inform product strategy and build.
• Facilitation — running workshops, critiques, and cross-functional working sessions in service of decisionmaking and alignment.
• Engineering/technical literacy — enough fluency to reason about feasibility and scope trade-offs in partnership with Eng and Ops.