Product Designer

About Thalamus

Our mission is to help the right doctors practice at the right hospitals to treat the right patients. We leverage a passion for technology, medical education, equity, and data-driven research to optimize physician recruitment, starting with the medical residency recruitment process.

Our philosophy is that the opportunity to practice medicine in an ideal environment should be accessible to all, and ample medical research has shown that this results in patients getting better healthcare outcomes overall. We built a comprehensive interview management platform, backed by evidence-based research, to innovate, streamline, and optimize the residency recruitment process.

Thalamus is the market leader in graduate medical education recruitment technology, empowering over 8,000 residency and fellowship programs at 800+ health systems and all new physicians throughout the US annually. As we expand beyond GME into broader physician recruitment, our unique dataset, spanning the full profiles of residency/fellowship applicants and programs, positions us to revolutionize hiring in healthcare through AI/ML and data-driven insights. This furthers our mission to ensure the right doctor ends up at the right hospital to treat the right patients.

Thalamus is seeking a Product Designer to help shape our product and design experiences. This role involves collaborating across EPD and contributing throughout the product development lifecycle, requiring both strategic thinking and strong design execution. The ideal candidate has a deep understanding of user needs, crafts intuitive and delightful experiences, and has a portfolio showcasing pixel-perfect design.

As a small but mighty team, we wear many hats and are in the early stages of building structure and formalizing processes. We're also implementing and scaling a design system across all our products to create a unified source of truth for design and engineering across different codebases. This is a unique opportunity to make a direct impact and help shape the foundation of our design system. If you have experience building, implementing, and maintaining complex design systems—especially in a fast-moving environment—we'd love to chat!

This is a rare opportunity to shape the product team of a high-growth, product-led, mission-driven, and growth-stage company that is solving one of the most critical workforce challenges in healthcare, and costs the US healthcare system upwards of $300B annually.

You will...

• Build a deep understanding of customer needs in the healthcare landscape to craft innovative solutions that meet user needs and business goals
• Own and drive design problems from ideation to execution with a cross-functional team
• Demonstrate success by providing an inspiring design that brings together a cohesive user experience, impact, ease of use, and the beauty of the final product
• Facilitate user research, synthesize user feedback and data, brainstorm with the team to improve the overall user experience, and contribute to the overall product strategy
• Maintain and elevate design standards in partnership with leadership, ensuring consistent, high-quality execution
• Cultivate a collaborative and innovative design culture through feedback and process iteration
• Build a strong design culture at Thalamus, participate in hiring and mentoring team members

You should have…

• At least 4 years of prior experience in product design, with a strong portfolio showcasing your design work and process
• Proficiency in the design tool, Figma
• Strong understanding of user-centered design principles and methodologies
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate customer needs, design decisions, and rationale to stakeholders
• Experience working in a scrappy startup environment with a strong bias for action
• Experience in effectively collaborating with cross-functional Engineering, Product, and Design teams to deliver products in remote / distributed environments
• Experience creating 0 to 1 products
• Bachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field

Bonus:

• Experience working with both B2C/B2B customers

The salary range for this position is $145,000-$185,000k and a grant of stock options. Final compensation will be determined based on experience, skills, and geographic location.

Our Commitment ...

Thalamus is a mission-driven organization centered on the belief that our company should model what we want of the US healthcare system, that the diversity of providers aligns with patient populations. We believe this is best achieved by building a team with a diversity of backgrounds, cultures, and experiences, including "distance traveled." Thalamus is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status (including registered domestic partnership status), sex and gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, lactation, and related medical conditions), gender identity and gender expression (including transgender individuals who are transitioning, have transitioned, or are perceived to be transitioning to the gender with which they identify), age, sexual orientation, Civil Air Patrol status, military and veteran status, and any other consideration protected by federal, state, or local law. We encourage those who really want to make an impact and who exemplify our core values to apply for our open positions.

Actual base salary offered will be determined by: experience, skills, and work location. This range is for base salary, our total compensation includes equity and benefits. We welcome you to apply even if your expectations are outside our listed range.

Thalamus is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures and throughout employment. If you need assistance or any accommodation, please let us know.

Thalamus does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies without a fully executed recruitment agreement in place. In the absence of such agreement, Thalamus reserves the right to pursue and hire any candidates without an obligation to pay fees. Agencies are requested not to contact Thalamus hiring managers or employees regarding recruiting services.

• This position is based in the United States, and you must be legally authorized to work in the United States.