Lead Product Designer, Sesame
Healthcare marketplace platform
Job no longer available
Healthcare marketplace platform
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
101-200 employees
Company mission
Sesame's mission is to provide access to convenient, high-quality, full-scope medical care at affordable self-pay prices - without insurance.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience as a Product Designer working on released and iteratively improved products
- Extensive experience in end-to-end product, interaction, and visual design
- Extensive experience in generative and evaluative user research
- A balance of strong design and product sense with a data-driven approach to champion the user
- Excellent communication, presentation, and collaboration skills
- Experience facilitating design-thinking workshops with cross-functional teams and leadership
- Thrives in a fast-paced environment and passionate about improving lives through healthcare
What the job involves
- Lead projects from ideation and conceptualization, transforming broad ideas into valuable and elegant solutions
- Champion the user by leading generative and evaluative user research that provides insightful and actionable findings
- Design simple and elegant flows from early-stage prototype, to pixel-perfect solutions
- Collaborate across the organization to iterate on existing solutions, optimize user journeys and experiences, and create new experiences that enhance our overall position in the market
- Ensure operational excellence by contributing to our cross-platform design system and overseeing seamless implementation of solutions
- Build and maintain strong cross-functional relationships across teams like product, engineering, and marketing
- Occasional travel (10%) may be required
Our take
Sesame is a healthcare marketplace that allows patients to search, compare, and book appointments - both in-person and online - in one place, while also allowing healthcare providers to get paid in cash, rather than going through the bureaucracy of insurance company dealings.
Sesame’s marketplace has been getting plenty of praise as well as capital investment, and it’s easy to see why. The American healthcare landscape has long been a bone of contention, so allowing consumers the opportunity to shop around is a good idea. The fact that Sesame users don’t have to be paying subscribers to the platform, but can get benefits by being one, is also a great touch.
It’ll be interesting to see how things work out in the long run for the company. While there’s little doubt that Sesame works for the patient, this kind of marketplace always seems to become somewhat unpopular with the businesses it hosts – Booking.com and Uber Eats are examples of this.
For the time being though, it’s proving popular with both sets of end users and working for a good cause. Having received funding from GV (formerly Google Venture), it looks set to grow quite a bit over the next few years.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
18% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2022
$27m
SERIES B
Apr 2021
$24m
LATE VC
Total funding: $76.1m
Company benefits
- Flexible vacation policy
- A fun and international work environment with teams across the US (New York, Boston, Miami) and Europe
- Comprehensive health care coverage options
Company HQ
Canal Street, New York, NY
Leadership
David Goldhill
(Co-Founder & CEO)Served as President and CEO of the Game Show Network, President of TV at Universal Studios, and founded and was CEO of INTH, and CFO of Act III Communications. Also an author, and Chair of The Leapfrog Group.
Michael Hernandez
(Co-Founder & President)Spent 5 years as Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Co. Previous Advisor to The White House Office of Management and Budget, Brookings Institution, and the State of Massachusetts on health reform legislation and implementation.
John Fontein
(Co-Founder)Former Associate at Goldman Sachs and worked VP and GM roles at GoEuro. Previously founded and sold his music production company, Relabel.
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