Senior Product Designer, Design Systems
About The Position
Headway's mission is to fix the mental healthcare system by building a new system that everyone can access. They have automated the administrative work for therapists, and are now building tools for therapists to run their practice, reimagining the experience of finding a therapist, and investing in platform foundations to enable this at scale. Headway is a Series D company with over $325M in funding and is looking for exceptional people to help achieve their mission. The design system, Helix, enables both the consumer marketplace for patients and the EHR for therapists. The design team works AI-first, using AI tools for prototyping and staying involved through launch and iteration. The team is currently rebuilding Helix from the ground up, including tokens, components, and documentation, offering an opportunity to shape its future direction.
Requirements
- 5+ years designing digital products, including at least two on a design system used by multiple teams.
- Lead on visual craft and advocate for it across the team.
- Typography, spacing, color, states, and density are the details you care about getting right.
- Energized by being the person who unblocks others, and can tell the difference between a one-off request and a signal about a gap in the system.
- Like making the system legible. Clear documentation and well-chosen patterns are how you scale your own work.
- Technical depth to back up design craft.
- Comfortable in React and Tailwind.
- Comfortable building simpler components yourself.
Responsibilities
- Design flexible, scalable components and hold the bar on typography, spacing, color, states, and density.
- Ship specs an engineer can build from without a follow-up meeting, and Figma library components with variants and properties wired up.
- Shape the semantic token architecture and the theming spec that maps it across surfaces with very different needs.
- Write documentation a designer, an engineer, and a coding agent can each act on.
- Work with product designers and engineers on their design system needs, advocate for the right ways to use Helix, and write the migration plans teams follow when a component changes shape.
- Champion accessibility and hold Helix to that bar.
Benefits
- Equity compensation
- Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
- HSA / FSA
- 401K
- Work-from-Home Stipend
- Therapy Reimbursement
- 16-week parental leave for eligible employees
- Carrot Fertility annual reimbursement and membership
- 13 paid holidays each year as well as a Holiday Break during the week between December 25th and December 31st
- Flexible PTO
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Training and professional development
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
