Responsibilities

• Build the design function for a growing multi-product HealthTech platform
• Lead a design team that currently consists of three designers and is expected to grow as product teams scale
• Hire, structure, and develop the team, decide how design capacity is allocated across product groups
• Lead the design system across the platform, including visual language, interaction patterns, component libraries, and Figma infrastructure
• Define the quality bar for design across the company and help ensure that products ship to a consistently strong standard
• Shape how design works with product and engineering as the organisation scales, including review rituals and handoff workflows

Requirements

• 8–10 years in design, including at least 3–4 years leading teams
• Progression from individual contributor design work into design leadership
• Still close enough to the craft to open Figma and do real work, while being experienced enough to lead and grow a team
• Experience building design in a multi-product organisation, not just on a single product
• Experience creating coherence across products with different surfaces and user types
• Strong design system experience, including building or significantly evolving a system that works across multiple platforms
• A strong understanding of the balance between consistency and flexibility
• A view that a design system is a product, not just a style guide
• Strong product taste and a high bar for simple, considered, high-quality experiences in B2B software
• An understanding of how AI changes both the design process and the products being designed
• Thoughtful perspective on, and ideally experience with, designing for non-deterministic AI-powered products
• Ability to scale a design team over time, including hiring, structuring designers across product teams, and making decisions about when to use contractors
• Strong mentoring and development skills for designers at different levels
• Comfort working in regulated environments such as healthcare, fintech, or similar
• An understanding that compliance and accessibility are not optional extras
• Experience in a startup or scale-up environment, with the ability to make strong decisions quickly in a resource-constrained setting
• English as a working language; German is a nice to have, not a requirement

Benefits

• Purposeful work – your work has a direct impact on patients, hospital teams, and digital healthcare
• Remote-first and flexible work – Recare works remote-first, with flexible working hours and Berlin office access
• Workations and flexibility – depending on setup and agreement, Recare supports flexible work arrangements and time working abroad
• Learning & development – regular feedback, development support, and a learning budget
• Tools and hardware – a modern setup and AI as part of everyday work
• Additional benefits – including an Edenred card and an extra day off on your birthday