Staff Product Designer
San Francisco, CA - USA
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Job Summary
About Us:
Here at Ambience we never set out to be just another scribe. Were building the AI intelligence platform that restores humanity to healthcare and drives meaningful ROI for health systems across the country.
Our technology helps providers focus on delivering great care by removing the administrative burden that pulls them away from patients and away from their most impactful work. Ambience delivers real-time coding-aware documentation and clinical workflow support across ambulatory emergency and inpatient settings at the top health systems in North America.
Our teams operate relentlessly with extreme ownership to build the best solutions for our health system partners. We value candor positivity and deep thought and we expect a lot from each other because we know the problems were solving truly matter.
Ambience was ranked #1 for Improving the Clinician Experience in the KLAS Research Emerging Solutions Top 20 Report recognized by Fast Company as one of the Next Big Things in Tech named one of the best AI companies in healthcare by Inc. and selected as a LinkedIn Top Startup in 2024 and 2025. Were backed by Oak HC/FT Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) OpenAI Startup Fund and Kleiner Perkins and were just getting started.
Were looking for a Staff Product Designer to own and accelerate the end-to-end user experience across our Clinical AI products. Youll drive key product initiatives from whiteboard to launchpartnering closely with engineering product clinical experts and our customers.
Own end-to-end product design across high-priority features from rough sketches to polished shipped experiences
Deeply understand our usersespecially cliniciansthrough embedded research shadowing and feedback loops
Drive clarity in ambiguity: partner with PMs engineers and clinical AI research teams to shape the roadmap and translate complex workflows into elegant intuitive UX
Build scalable design systems that enable rapid prototyping without sacrificing quality or consistency
Mentor designers and influence culture bringing design thinking into product strategy conversations critiques and postmortems
Act like an owner: whether its improving cross-functional tooling or jumping into front-end polish youll do what it takes to deliver great outcomes
Thrive in fast-paced ambiguous environments and take initiative without waiting for direction
Have shipped high-impact product design work in technically complex B2B Saas domains
Are fluent across the full design stackresearch UX UI prototyping systemsand can pivot fluidly as needed
Communicate clearly with technical and non-technical partners alike (engineers clinicians execs)
Obsess over the user experience especially for high-stakes high-friction workflows
Operate with speed experimentation and a bias toward action
Transformative impact: Help shape the future of AI-powered healthcare directly improving clinician and patient outcomes
Extreme ownership: Youll operate with autonomy influence product direction and own design from strategy to pixel-perfect execution
Frontier AI: Work at the edge of generative AI deeply embedded into real-world workflows
Experience designing for clinicians healthcare systems or complex enterprise users
Hands-on experience with front-end styling or contributing to a design system repo
A track record of mentoring other designers or helping shape design orgs from the ground up
The base compensation for this role is approximately $220000 - $260000 per year excluding equity or bonus. Were providing flexibility so you can strike a cash vs. equity balance that works best for you. Our philosophy is to offer meaningful equity so our team shares directly in the value we build.
Are you outside this range We encourage you to apply we consider individual needs and experiences.
We are targeting candidates within commutable distance of our San Francisco CA office for this role.
Life at Ambience
Working at Ambience means opting into a high-ownership high-trust environment built for people who want to grow fast operate decisively and focus on work that matters. This could be the right place for you if you want to
Work on mission-critical AI technology that directly improves clinicians day-to-day lives and health system financial health across some of the most complex high-stakes workflows in the world.
Join a dream team culture where we hire exceptional people expect exceptional outcomes and invest deeply in feedback and continuous growth. We operate as a championship team and that means being ok with hard uncomfortable ambiguous problems that lead to real greatness.
Operate with real ownership and accountability in an environment where there are no bystanders: If something is broken we fix it! You will have meaningful autonomy and be expected to drive work to completion.
To help you do your best work we pair these expectations with benefits intentionally designed to help you feel supported and safe at Ambience and beyond. Some of our key benefits include
Comprehensive medical dental and vision coverage for you and your dependents
401(k) with a company match of up to 3% of base salary
A remote-friendly culture (with a San Francisco HQ) and full equipment provisioning to ensure you can work effectively from wherever youre based.
Parental leave to support your family needs
Annual company-wide off-sites team off-sites and regular team lunches and all-hands gatherings with travel lodging and meals covered
Flexible time off with no annual cap company-wide holidays and an annual holiday shutdown from December 24January 1 designed to support real rest and long-term sustainability.
Ambience Healthcare is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We do not discriminate on the basis of race color religion sex gender identity or expression sexual orientation national origin age disability veteran status genetic information or any other legally protected status. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply.
Ambience is committed to supporting every candidates ability to fully participate in our hiring process. If you need any accommodations during your application or interviews please reach out to our Recruiting team at . Well handle your request confidentially and work with you to ensure an accessible and equitable experience for all candidates.
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Required Experience:
Staff IC