Founding Product Designer

Sage Care Inc • Palo Alto, CA

1d • $120,000 - $185,000

About The Position

Sage Care is a fast-growing, early-stage healthcare startup founded by exceptional leaders from Apple, Uber, Carbon Health and backed by top-tier venture capital. The company is transforming healthcare by simplifying care navigation through an AI-powered platform that helps patients find the right doctor, providers focus on those who need them most, and ensures faster access to care. Sage Care has expanded internationally to the MENA region, partnering with health systems there to deploy its platform. The design role is the first full-time designer position, responsible for shaping the products and setting the standard for design's role as the team grows. The work involves designing for dense, high-stakes workflows in AI-assisted care navigation, requiring close collaboration with users, rapid prototyping, and comfort with ambiguity. The team values craft, polished and trustworthy design, and shipping fast while learning from real use.

Requirements

• 6+ years of product design experience
• Experience designing complex products across multiple companies, ideally B2B SaaS, systems-heavy, or operational internal tools, with ownership from problem definition through launch
• A strong portfolio showing product thinking, polished UI craft, the reasoning behind the work, and the results it drove
• Experience designing both product interfaces and brand and marketing materials
• Strong research instincts and the ability to run your own user sessions
• Fluency in Figma for interface design and prototyping, and comfort with the broader design toolkit for brand and marketing work
• Comfort using current AI tools like Cursor, GPT, and Claude as part of your practice, and judgment about where they fall short
• Excellent collaboration and communication in a cross-functional, fast-moving team

Nice To Haves

• Previous experience building from 0 to 1 at an early-stage startup – you know how to balance shipping fast with building for the long term

Responsibilities

• Shape the direction of our products, grounded in deep knowledge of the people who use them.
• Own design across our user-facing products end to end, from research and problem framing through spec, launch and iteration.
• Lead research directly. Sit with referral coordinators and phone staff, learn how they actually work, and turn what you find into product direction.
• Craft polished, trustworthy interfaces that hold up under the density and pressure of real clinical operations.
• Partner with the founders, product, and engineers to set product vision and roadmap.
• Prototype quickly, in code or whatever communicates the idea best, so the team can react, align, and build the right thing faster.
• Own brand and marketing too: sales one-pagers, pitch and partner decks, and the website.
• Ship high-quality work fast in an early-stage, often ambiguous environment.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed