Staff Designer
Posted on November 02, 2025 (21 days ago)
About Us:
Ambience Healthcare is the leading AI platform for documentation, coding, and clinical workflow, built to reduce administrative burden and protect revenue integrity at the point of care. Trusted by top health systems across North America, Ambience9s platform is live across outpatient, emergency, and inpatient settings, supporting more than 100 specialties with real-time, coding-aware documentation. The platform integrates directly with Epic, Oracle Cerner, athenahealth, and other major EHRs. Founded in 2020 by Mike Ng and Nikhil Buduma, Ambience is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by Oak HC/FT, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), OpenAI Startup Fund, Kleiner Perkins, and other leading investors.
Join us in the endeavor of accelerating the path to safe & useful clinical super intelligence by becoming part of our community of problem solvers, technologists, clinicians, and innovators.
About the Role
We69re looking for a Staff Product Designer to own and accelerate the end-to-end user experience across our Clinical AI products. You69ll drive key product initiatives from whiteboard to launch02014partnering closely with engineering, product, clinical experts, and our customers.
What You9ll Accomplish
- Own end-to-end product design across high-priority features, from rough sketches to polished shipped experiences
- Deeply understand our users02014especially clinicians02014through 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 it9s improving cross-functional tooling or jumping into front-end polish, you9ll do what it takes to deliver great outcomes
We9d Love to Hear From You If Youre We9d Love to Hear From You If Youre
- 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 stack02014research, UX, UI, prototyping, systems02014and 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
Why Join Us
- Transformative impact: Help shape the future of AI-powered healthcare, directly improving clinician and patient outcomes
- Extreme ownership: You9ll 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
Bonus Points For
- 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
Pay Transparency
The base compensation for this role is approximately $220,000 - $290,000 per year, excluding equity or bonus. We9re 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.
Location
We are targeting candidates within commutable distance of our San Francisco, CA office for this role.
Being at Ambience:
- An opportunity to work with cutting edge AI technology, on a product that dramatically improves the quality of life for healthcare providers and the quality of care they can provide to their patients
- Dedicated budget for personal development, including access to world class mentors, advisors, and an in-house executive coach
- Work alongside a world-class, diverse team that is deeply mission aligned
- Ownership over your success and the ability to significantly impact the growth of our company
- Competitive salary and equity compensation with benefits including health, dental, and vision coverage, quarterly retreats, unlimited PTO, and a 401(k) plan
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 [email protected]. Well handle your request confidentially and work with you to ensure an accessible and equitable experience for all candidates.
Please apply through the job application page by clicking the "Apply for this Job" button on the job posting page at https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ambiencehealthcare/d4090b79-c87d-47bb-a8e8-c05003d9e01d.