Founding Product Designer
Nolla Health · New York City · $140,000–$180,000 (stated in the posting)
THE MISSION
Nolla is building AI doctors so that top-quality healthcare is accessible to everyone. Nolla Derm is the #1 medical skincare treatment app in the U.S. App Store. We've treated thousands of acne patients in the U.S., scanned 1% of Norway's population for skin cancer, and our in-house clinical models are state of the art on clinical benchmarks. We just launched NollaMD, our urgent care app, and we're building dedicated specialty apps for conditions like birth control and allergies. We’ve raised $6.5M from General Catalyst and other strategic investors.
THE ROLE
This is a hands-on product design role. You'll be our first full-time designer, working as a design partner with our product team. You'll own the screens: taking briefs and rough directions to complete, polished flows across every app we ship, and building the rigorous component library that keeps them consistent as we launch new ones.
WHAT YOU'LL DESIGN
Patient Apps
Deliver complete, production-ready screens and flows for Nolla Derm, NollaMD, and the specialty apps we launch next: from brief to high-fidelity UI, prototype, handoff, and design QA in the build
Design intake, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up experiences where an AI clinician is doing the work and a patient needs to understand and trust the result
Iterate on onboarding, paywall, and retention flows with the Head of Product and Head of Growth, using real usage data
Clinical AI Experiences
Design how AI output is presented: confidence, uncertainty, abstention, and escalation to a human clinician, so patients get the right level of trust and never a false sense of certainty
Turn clinical safety requirements into interfaces that feel simple rather than defensive
Partner with engineering on the conversational and multimodal surfaces (photo capture, symptom description, chat) that our models depend on
Design System & Brand
Own and maintain a rigorous component library in Figma: tokens, components, variants, documentation, and the conventions engineers build against
Keep every app feeling like Nolla as we launch new ones, and make standing up a new specialty app a matter of weeks
Apply the visual identity consistently across product, App Store, and launch materials
WHAT YOU BRING
3+ years of product design experience on shipped consumer or health apps, with at least one iOS app you can walk us through screen by screen
A portfolio of complete, polished, shipped work: real flows end to end, not just hero screens or concepts
Exceptional visual and interaction craft; you care about typography, spacing, motion, and the last 5% of polish, and it shows
You've built or substantially maintained a component library and know what makes one hold up as a product grows
You take a brief or a rough direction and come back with thorough, considered options, edge cases covered, ready to build
You prototype in Figma well enough to test before an engineer writes a line
Comfortable working shoulder to shoulder with engineers and QA-ing your own work in the build
You thrive on fast iteration and direct feedback, and you ship every week
BONUS POINTS
Designed for healthcare, clinical, or another regulated, high-stakes domain
Designed AI-native products: chat, multimodal input, uncertainty, and human-in-the-loop review
Built or maintained a design system used across several apps
Ran your own user research program: recruiting, interviews, synthesis
TOOLS
Figma · FigJam · Prototyping (Figma, Play, or code) · iOS Human Interface Guidelines · Linear · Notion · PostHog · AI design and prototyping tools (Claude, v0, or similar)
ROLE LOGISTICS, COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
Role Type: Product & Design
Salary: $140,000–$180,000, based on experience
Job Type: Full-time
Work Setup: In-person, New York City
Equity: Meaningful equity, commensurate with experience
Health Insurance: Medical, dental, and vision
HSA/FSA: Eligible
Time Off: Flexible, unlimited vacation
Additional Perks: Meal stipends, team retreats
Work Hours: Flexible but demanding. We're building something that matters
Growth: Founding team members step into expanded roles as we scale. As the design team grows, so does your scope.