Senior Product Designer – Digital Health & AI Experiences

Company Description

Guardant Health is a leading precision oncology company focused on guarding wellness and giving every person more time free from cancer. Founded in 2012 Guardant is transforming patient care and accelerating new cancer therapies by providing critical insights into what drives disease through its advanced blood and tissue tests real-world data and AI analytics. Guardant tests help improve outcomes across all stages of care including screening to find cancer early monitoring for recurrence in early-stage cancer and treatment selection for patients with advanced cancer. For more information visitand follow the company onLinkedInX (Twitter)andFacebook.

As our Senior Product Designer Digital Health & AI Experiences youll help define how data and design intersect to improve patient outcomes and clinician decision-makingtranslating complexity into clarity and empathy. Youll join a talented mission-driven design and product organization where your work directly impacts the lives of thousands of patients per this role youll collaborate across disciplines with engineers data scientists and oncologists who share a deep belief in human-centered technology and measurable impact. This is a rare opportunity to collaborate with technical clinical and business partners to transform data-driven science into deeply human-centered digital tools that empower clinicians and patients alike. You will design and evolve digital experiences that bring Guardants mission to life through thoughtful design systems data visualization and empathy-led storytelling. Youll define and execute the design vision across our AI-driven platforms ensuring complex data insights are presented with clarity simplicity and humanity.

At Guardant we design not just for functionality but for hopecreating tools that empower people to act on knowledge with confidence and compassion.

Product Design & Strategy

• Lead the end-to-end design strategy for Guardants digital experiences with emphasis on data-driven AI-powered clinical and patient tools.

• Conduct and synthesize research to deeply understand user behavior workflows and clinical decision-making processes.

• Translate insights into clear design opportunities and intuitive experiences across data visualization workflow design and responsive interfaces.

• Partner with cross-functional teams to develop high-fidelity prototypes usability tests and design reviews to validate and refine concepts.

• Advocate for simplicity and human-centered problem-solvingensuring designs communicate complex oncology insights with empathy and clarity.

• Collaborate with medical and data teams to ensure visualizations meet clinical accuracy accessibility and comprehension expectations

• Develop scalable design systems that align with Guardants design language and digital platform standards.
  

Collaboration & Influence

• Partner closely with Product Engineering and Clinical teams to align design intent with technical feasibility and business priorities.

• Champion design thinking and storytelling as tools for alignment clarity and innovation across the organization.

• Mentor and influence peers by contributing to design critiques best practices and cross-team design culture.

• Foster a culture of design excellenceraising the bar for usability accessibility and consistency across all touchpoints.

Essential Qualifications

• Typically requires a university degree and generally 12 years of related experience; 8 years and a Masters degree; 5 years and a PhD or 3 years and a PharmD.

• Degree in Design HCI or a related field (or equivalent experience).

• 5 years of experience in product design preferably within data-rich or AI-driven digital platforms.

• Expertise in user-centered design interaction design and visual systems.

• Strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end ownership of product design from research to execution.

• Skilled in Figma prototyping logic and design systems.

• Experience designing for complex workflows or clinical data-facing tools and simplifying them for real-world use.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in digital health biotech or clinical care platforms.

• Advanced degree in Design HCI or related disciplines.

• Familiarity with AI-driven product experiences and visualizing data in healthcare contexts.

• Knowledge of accessibility standards and inclusive design best practices.

• Strong communication and storytelling skills with experience influencing senior stakeholders.

• Passion for transforming cancer care and making a meaningful real-world difference.

Hybrid Work Model: This section is applicable to onsite employees who are eligible for hybrid work location as specified by management and related policies. Guardant has defined days for in-person/onsite collaboration and work-from-home days for individual-focused time. All U.S. employees who live within 50 miles of a Guardant facility will be required to be onsite on Mondays Tuesdays and Thursdays. We have found aligning our scheduled in-office days allows our teams to do the best work and creates the focused thinking time our innovative work requires. At Guardant our work model has created flexibility for better work-life balance while keeping teams connected to advance our science for our patients.