Sr. Product Designer

Opportunity Overview

We are seeking an exceptional Senior Product Designer to join our stellar design team. The ideal candidate for this role is an experienced digital product designer who excels in highly collaborative environments is proficient in modern design tools (were a Figma-first organization) and consistently delivers high-quality experiences in complex problem spaces. You enjoy taking ownership of ambiguous and challenging problems shaping them into thoughtful and intuitive experiences that make a meaningful difference for users.

As a senior member of our design team and a founding member of the India design team you will set a strong foundation for integrating design practices with our engineering team. Your work will have a direct impact on over 700000 healthcare professionals who use our solutions daily to process more than 12 million prior authorizations annually. You combine deep UX expertise with strong visual craft applying research insights interaction patterns and strategic storytelling to influence decisions and ship value. You know how to navigate constraints advocate for the user and collaborate seamlessly with product and engineering from discovery through delivery.

In this role you will also be a force multiplier for the entire product organization. You will design maintain and evolve our design system ensuring it enhances the efficiency consistency quality and accessibility of experiences across multiple product surfaces. Your work will empower designers engineers and product teams to ship value faster and more confidently reducing friction and enhancing collaboration. You bring strong knowledge of interaction patterns visual design principles accessibility standards and component architecture. You know when to extend the system and when to keep it lean and you are comfortable negotiating with engineers to maintain design and technical cohesion.

To summarize this is a hybrid role split between leading and supporting product design across all our products and evolving our design system and design operations globally.

Last but not least people who succeed here are empathetic teammates who are candid kind and caring embodying our core values and principles. We believe that diverse inclusive teams make the most impactful work. Cohere is deeply invested in ensuring that we have a supportive growth-oriented environment that works for everyone.

What you will do

• Lead end-to-end design for complex product areasfrom framing problems through polished delivery and iteration
• Define experience principles flows and interaction patterns that provide clarity across cross-functional teams
• Build high-fidelity prototypes to communicate concepts test usability and validate solutions
• Craft beautiful emotionally compelling visual designs that reinforce product strategy and brand expression
• Collaborate closely with product managers engineers data teams and operations to shape the roadmap and deliver measurable impact
• Own and evolve the design systemtokens components patterns documentation and guardrailsacross all Cohere products
• Refine existing components and design new systematic elements that scale across complex workflows product areas and user needs
• Partner closely with designers and engineers to ensure components are technically feasible accessible resilient and high-quality
• Participate in and contribute to design critiquesboth giving and receiving feedback that raises quality across the team

Must-haves

• 5 years of experience in software product design with ownership of end-to-end delivery for multiple products or substantial product areas with at least part of that time spent working on or heavily with a design system
• Proven ability to operate in complex domainsenterprise healthcare fintech analytics or similarly data-dense problem spaces
• Familiarity with frontend technologies (Googles Material Design React HTML/CSS Design Tokens standards) to collaborate effectively with engineers
• Deep expertise in UX best practices interaction design and visual design craft
• Experience working with cross-functional agile scrum teams
• Bachelors or Masters degree in Design HCI Human Factors or equivalent experience

• An outstanding portfolio demonstrating clear problem framing user-centered design processes design systems work (components tokens patterns) and the real impact of your work
• Strong storytelling and communication skillsable to articulate decisions and generate alignment across disciplines and seniority
• Strong conceptual thinkingbalancing user needs product strategy business goals and technical constraints

Nice-to-haves

• Experience designing for healthcare and/or AI/ML
• Experience in influencing design system adoption with engineering teams
• Experience with tooling that supports system delivery (Storybook ZeroHeight Tokens Studio DesignDocs etc.)
• Strength in motion design or micro-interactions
• Experience launching v1 products or building 01 experiences

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Nacharam Hyderabad Telangana*: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Preferred)
  *we will be opening a new office in the HITEC City area in early 2026

Interview Process*:

1. Connect with Talent Acquisition
2. Meet with the Hiring Manager
3. Behavioral Interview(s)
4. Case Study
5. Interview with Senior Leadership

*Subject to change

About Cohere Health:

Cohere Healths clinical intelligence platform delivers AI-powered solutions that streamline access to quality care by improving payer-provider collaboration cost containment and healthcare economics. Cohere Health works with over 660000 providers and handles over 12 million prior authorization requests annually. Its responsible AI auto-approves up to 90% of requests for millions of health plan members.

With the acquisition of ZignaAI weve further enhanced our platform by launching our Payment Integrity Suite anchored by Cohere Validate an AI-driven clinical and coding validation solution that operates in near real-time. By unifying pre-service authorization data with post-service claims validation were creating a transparent healthcare ecosystem that reduces waste improves payer-provider collaboration and patient outcomes and ensures providers are paid promptly and accurately.

Cohere Healths innovations continue to receive industry wide recognition. Weve been named to the 2025 Inc. 5000 list and in the Gartner Hype Cycle for U.S. Healthcare Payers (2022-2025) and ranked as a Top 5 LinkedIn Startup for 2023 & 2024. Backed by leading investors such as Deerfield Management Define Ventures Flare Capital Partners Longitude Capital and Polaris Partners Cohere Health drives more transparent streamlined healthcare processes helping patients receive faster more appropriate care and higher-quality outcomes.

The Coherenauts as we call ourselves who succeed here are empathetic teammates who are candid kind caring and embody our core values and principles. We believe that diverse inclusive teams make the most impactful work. Cohere is deeply invested in ensuring that we have a supportive growth-oriented environment that works for everyone.

We cant wait to learn more about you and meet you at Cohere Health!

Equal Opportunity Statement:

Cohere Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to fostering an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all. To us its personal.