Lead Product Designer, Design Systems

Your Impact on our Mission

We're looking for a Lead Product Designer to help shape the future of our healthcare products through the evolution and scaling of our design system. Our Design System powers consistent, scalable, and beautiful experiences across our products. You'll play a critical role in shaping how our design language is expressed and maintained, collaborating closely with designers, engineers, and product teams to ensure our system remains robust, cohesive, and easy to use.

You'll enjoy this role if you are…

• Passionate about building, scaling, and sustaining a world-class design system
• Someone who enjoys fast-paced, collaborative, creative environments that are constantly pushing for excellence
• Serious about delivering exceptional work but knows how to keep things light-because great work often comes with a sense of humor
• Excited to spend considerable time focused on the micro details as well as the macro strategy of a design system

Your day to day is…

• Designing highly polished UI and interactions relevant to the healthcare industry
• Writing comprehensive documentation that communicates usage, intent, and rationale behind design decisions
• Fostering a communicative, team-oriented, and helpful design system operation
• Thinking deeply about complex systems architecture challenges
• Vibe-coding component interactions and animations
• Optimizing how we design and build at Zocdoc through internal processes, technologies, and tooling, including emerging technologies

You'll be successful in this role if you have…

• Experience (7+ years) in product design with 2+ years of direct work on a scaled design system as a core contributor
• Impeccable UI and interaction design craft
• Strong understanding of Figma, including its component-building tools
• Familiarity with front-end concepts (React, HTML/CSS, iOS, Android) and how design systems integrate into codebases
• Excellent writing and communication skills, with an ability to convey complex ideas clearly and succinctly
• A passion for design craft, systems thinking, and helping others do their best work

Benefits:

• Flexible, hybrid work environment at our convenient Soho location
• Unlimited Vacation
• 100% paid employee health benefit options (including medical, dental, and vision)
• Commuter Benefits
• 401(k) with employer-funded match
• Corporate wellness programs with Headspace and Peloton
• Sabbatical leave (for employees with 5+ years of service)
• Competitive paid parental leave and fertility/family planning reimbursement
• Cell phone reimbursement
• Catered lunch every day, along with beverages and snacks
• Employee Resource Groups and ZocClubs to promote shared community and belonging
• Great Place to Work Certified