Senior Product Designer (Temporary Full Time Position)

Tidepool • Palo Alto, CA

82d • $64 - $85

About The Position

As a Senior Product Designer at Tidepool, you will work fluidly and collaboratively with engineers, product managers, healthcare professionals and patients to make meaningful contributions to Tidepool and the diabetes community. This role is a 6-month temporary position. We are looking for a designer to start in November of 2025.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a product designer or interaction designer or equivalent experience in visual design, experience design, etc.
• Strong portfolio that demonstrates your practice of a design process solving problems for mobile and responsive web platforms.
• Outstanding design skills with experience shipping many B2C products/features.
• Strong knowledge of visual design fundamentals including layout, color, and typography.
• Ability to work independently to explore concepts from beginning to end, yet also seek out feedback loops with your ideas.
• Experience working in Tidepool’s task management system, Jira, to conduct design reviews and leave design feedback for engineers.
• Fluency with design tools such as Figma.

Nice To Haves

• Healthcare, wellness, medical device experience, especially diabetes device or application experience.
• Experience designing for generative AI, LLMs, or machine learning interfaces.
• Experience designing complex data visualizations.

Responsibilities

• Lead design projects on Tidepool’s Data Management Platform across patient and clinician experiences, including patient management dashboards, data visualizations, device connection workflows and more.
• Translate broad need statements from patients and healthcare professionals into meaningful designs, balancing usability with safety regulations and technical considerations.
• Partner closely with product, engineering and quality assurance engineers to drive design decisions and advocate for our users.
• Build and manage a comprehensive design system and component library to maintain consistency.
• Plan, design and lead a wide range of user research, including exploratory interviews and task-based usability testing.
• Develop deep understanding and empathy for people living with diabetes and healthcare providers and leverage that feedback to push for product refinement/improvement.
• Work closely with the product manager to define new feature concepts and influence the product strategy by establishing product and feature priorities.
• Proactively manage prioritization challenges with your product team to ensure design focus areas are aligned with business goals.
• Develop expertise in various diabetes hardware and software technologies in order to create impactful design solutions.

Benefits

• Hourly rate for the role is $64 to $85.
• This is a contingent full-time 6-month role with a potential option to extend.
• This is a benefits-ineligible position.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 51-100 employees