Senior Product Designer - Charlie Health Engineering, Product & Design
New York City, NY
About the Job
Why Charlie Health?
We are currently facing a nationwide mental health epidemic marked by rising rates of depression, anxiety, trauma, substance use disorders, and suicide. At the same time, those seeking help often encounter barriers—whether geographic, financial, or systemic—that prevent them from receiving timely and effective care. This urgent need calls for a reimagined approach to behavioral health treatment.
At Charlie Health, our mission is to connect the world to life-saving mental health treatment. Our innovative virtual programs combine curated group sessions, individual therapy, and family therapy, delivered through personalized, evidence-based treatment plans designed for sustainable healing from the comfort of home. By connecting individuals with shared experiences and fostering supportive communities, Charlie Health provides a pathway to long-term recovery, with over 90% of our clients seeing improvement in their most challenging mental health symptoms.
Every member of our team shares a deep commitment to this mission. If you're driven to make a meaningful impact, we invite you to join us in reshaping the future of mental healthcare.
About the Role
We're a team of passionate, forward-thinking professionals eager to take on the challenge of the mental health crisis and play a formative role in providing life-saving solutions. If you're inspired by our mission and energized by the opportunity to increase access to mental healthcare and impact millions of lives in a profound way, apply today.
We're looking for a Senior Product Designer to join our Clinical Experience team to help reimagine and bring to life a best-in-class experience for our Clients and Clinicians across web and mobile.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with Engineering, Product Management, Clinical, and Operations partners to identify and define product opportunities.
- Set the quality bar for design and influence through your mastery of craft and problem solving skills.
- Approach problems critically, refine problem statements, and show breadth in exploring how we might solve them
- Present and effectively communicate the problem space and clearly articulate the why behind design decisions leveraging data and insights
- Drive the process, end-to-end: discovery, problem definition, solution definition, and experimentation through to launch.
- Drive user research to uncover customer problems, needs, and product opportunities.
- Drive co-creation workshops with your product team, designers, and stakeholders.
- Prototype, validate, and deliver elegant, on-brand solutions to complex problems.
- Support and provide radically candid feedback to team members.
- Contribute to our internal design processes, practices, team culture, and design system.
Requirements
- You have a minimum of 5 years of work experience in Product Design for tech/software products, preferably in Mental Health, Telehealth, or Workforce Management.
- You have experience solving complex, multi-persona interaction design problems and have delivered cohesive experiences across web and mobile.
- You are a systems thinker with a proven ability to solve complex UX problems and product strategy skills to deliver quality design solutions.
- You have a deep understanding of how qualitative and quantitative research informs product and design decisions.
- You have the ability to communicate complex ideas and strategic plans clearly and persuasively to different audiences to build alignment and move objectives forward.
- You have a bias for taking initiative and ownership of work, filling in the blanks when encountered by ambiguity
- You're skilled with user research (with a deep understanding of how qualitative and quantitative research informs product and design decisions), front end coding, project management, product discovery, and UX writing a plus
- You possess a track record of making technical decisions that are best at that given point in time and comfort with making decisions with incomplete information
- You're an expert with the tools of the trade, and have experience contributing to token-based design systems.
Benefits
Charlie Health is pleased to offer comprehensive benefits to all full-time, exempt employees. Read more about our benefits here.
Additional Information
The expected base pay for this role will be between $120,000 - $135,000 per year at the commencement of employment. However, base pay will be determined on an individualized basis and will be impacted by location and years of experience. Further, base pay is only part of the total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, other short and long-term incentive packages, and other Charlie Health-sponsored benefits.
Our Values
- Connection: Care deeply & inspire hope.
- We care personally about every single person in the Charlie Health ecosystem: our clients, providers, and team members alike.
- We inspire hope with every interaction, reminding our clients that we truly and unconditionally believe in them.
- Congruence: Stay curious & heed the evidence.
- We ask "why" five times before we're satisfied with the answer. We don't stick to the status quo; we challenge our assumptions and remain humble.
- Above all, we're results-oriented. When we find data that calls our original plan into question, we modify or pivot.
- Commitment: Act with urgency & don't give up.
- We work as swiftly as possible. The mental health crisis is relentless, and so are we.
- Our clients don't give up and neither do we. Persistence is our superpower.
Please do not call our public clinical admissions line in regard to this or any other job posting.
Please be cautious of potential recruitment fraud. If you are interested in exploring opportunities at Charlie Health, please go directly to our Careers Page: https://www.charliehealth.com/careers/current-openings. Charlie Health will never ask you to pay a fee or download software as part of the interview process with our company. In addition, Charlie Health will not ask for your personal banking information until you have signed an offer of employment and completed onboarding paperwork that is provided by our People Operations team. All communications with Charlie Health Talent and People Operations professionals will only be sent from @charliehealth.com email addresses. Legitimate emails will never originate from gmail.com, yahoo.com, or other commercial email services.
Recruiting agencies, please do not submit unsolicited referrals for this or any open role. We have a roster of agencies with whom we partner, and we will not pay any fee associated with unsolicited referrals.
At Charlie Health, we value being an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strive to cultivate an environment where individuals can be their authentic selves. Being an Equal Opportunity Employer means every member of our team feels as though they are supported and belong. We value diverse perspectives to help us provide essential mental health and substance use disorder treatments to all young people.
Charlie Health applicants are assessed solely on their qualifications for the role, without regard to disability or need for accommodation.
