<p>Your Impact on our Mission</p> <p>As a Lead Product Designer at Zocdoc, you will play a crucial role in driving the user experience and design direction of our products. You'll be responsible for leading design projects from ideation to implementation and contributing to the overall growth and success of the design team. With your expertise, creativity, and leadership skills, you will help shape the future of healthcare technology and directly influence the way patients connect with healthcare providers.</p> <p>You'll enjoy this role if you are…</p> <ul> <li>Passionate about creating user-centered designs that have a real impact on people's lives </li><li>Excited to collaborate with cross-functional teams and influence product strategy and direction </li><li>Comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment where you can drive meaningful change </li><li>Energized by tackling highly complex systems and workflows, with a genuine curiosity for digging into the details </li></ul> <p>Your day to day is…</p> <ul> <li>Leading and successfully delivering design projects of significant scope, ensuring high-quality outcomes </li><li>Clearly communicating user experience decisions and rationale, facilitating productive discussions, and driving progress forward </li><li>Acting as a design leader within the team, bringing valuable insights and perspectives to design crits and cross-functional meetings </li><li>Staying up to date with the latest design & research trends, tools, and best practices, incorporating them into your work </li><li>Contributing to the development of design and research guidelines and standards, ensuring their adherence throughout the process </li></ul> <p>You'll be successful in this role if you have…</p> <ul> <li>6+ years of experience as a product designer, with a strong portfolio demonstrating your ability to create impactful, user-centered designs </li><li>BA/BS degree in design, a related field (e.g., interaction, graphic, visual communications, product, industrial), or equivalent practical experience </li><li>Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, enabling effective collaboration and articulation of design decisions </li><li>Strong leadership skills, with a proven track record of mentoring and guiding junior designers </li><li>Exceptional problem-solving and critical-thinking abilities, capable of leading and delivering on projects of various scopes </li><li>The ability to navigate and simplify complex products, systems, and user cases, translating them into intuitive and elegant experiences </li><li>Deep understanding of user-centered design principles, research methodologies, visual design, and interaction design best practices </li><li>A life-long learner mentality with a growth mindset </li></ul> <p>Benefits:</p> <ul> <li>Flexible, hybrid work environment at our convenient Soho location </li><li>Unlimited Vacation </li><li>100% paid employee health benefit options (including medical, dental, and vision) </li><li>Commuter Benefits </li><li>401(k) with employer-funded match </li><li>Corporate wellness programs with Headspace and Peloton </li><li>Sabbatical leave (for employees with 5+ years of service) </li><li>Competitive paid parental leave and fertility/family planning reimbursement </li><li>Cell phone reimbursement </li><li>Catered lunch every day along with beverages and snacks </li><li>Employee Resource Groups and ZocClubs to promote shared community and belonging </li><li>Great Place to Work Certified </li></ul>