Lead Product Designer, Virta Health
$182-210k
Offers Equity
Diabetes reversal treatment
Open for applications
Diabetes reversal treatment
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$182-210k
Offers Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To reverse diabetes and obesity in one billion people.
Role
Who you are
- This role requires strong ownership, strategic problem-solving, and execution skills, ensuring that design is both visionary and grounded in real user needs
- This is an ideal role for a designer who thrives in ambiguity, takes initiative, and can balance big-picture thinking with tactical execution
- 8+ years of experience in Product Design, with a portfolio that demonstrates clear problem-solving, structured thinking, and high-quality execution
- A strong sense of ownership, proactively leading projects and driving clarity in ambiguous situations
- A strategic mindset, balancing business goals with user needs while advocating for impactful design decisions
- Deep expertise in UX/UI design, with strong interaction design, visual design, and usability principles
- Proficiency in Figma and a solid understanding of research methodologies
- Collaboration skills, working closely with engineers to ensure seamless execution and technical feasibility
- A proactive approach to integrating AI-powered experiences, focusing on their role in improving user workflows
- Exceptional storytelling and communication skills, effectively presenting ideas and influencing stakeholders at all levels
- Experience in healthcare or regulated industries is a plus, but not required
- You put people first and take care of yourself, your peers, and our patients equally
- You have a strong sense of ownership and take initiative while empowering others to do the same
- You prioritize positive impact over busy work
- You have no ego and understand that everyone has something to bring to the table regardless of experience
- You appreciate transparency and promote trust and empowerment through open access of information
- You are evidence-based and prioritize data and science over seniority or dogma
- You take risks and rapidly iterate
What the job involves
- As a Lead Product Designer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping Virta’s user experience across both clinician and patient-facing products
- You will collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and cross-functional teams to define and execute user-centered solutions that scale
- You’ll also contribute to AI-powered experiences, helping integrate new technologies in a way that enhances the user journey. While AI is an emerging area of focus, your primary impact will come from delivering high-quality, well-structured designs that drive engagement and improve outcomes for our users
- Take ownership of the end-to-end design process, from research and concept development to execution and iteration
- Drive clarity by distilling complex problems into simple, intuitive, and effective design solutions
- Conduct user research to deeply understand the needs and behaviors of our members and clinicians
- Develop user-centric designs that balance business goals, technical constraints, and best practices
- Collaborate closely with product managers and engineers to define priorities and refine designs based on feedback and data
- Facilitate co-creation workshops, ideation sessions and design sprints, leading strategic discussions to align stakeholders
- Test and iterate designs rapidly, using qualitative and quantitative insights to refine solutions
- Integrate AI-powered features thoughtfully into the user experience, ensuring they provide value and enhance usability
- Advocate for design excellence across the organization, contributing to our design system and elevating UX/UI standards
- Within your first 90 days at Virta, we expect you will do the following:
- Gain a deep understanding of Virta’s ecosystem, products, and user needs
- Analyze existing user journeys, research, and member behaviors to identify opportunities
- Master Virta’s design system, tools, and processes, ensuring consistency and efficiency in execution
- Work closely with your squad to deliver early exploration of a key feature, applying user insights to improve engagement and usability
- Collaborate with the rest of the design team, and internal experts to conduct user research and synthetizing findings that are easily shared with stakeholders
Our take
Much of the care for type 2 diabetes has been based on control and prevention, rather than a direct reversal of the issue. Virta Health is changing that, providing patients with personalized treatment plans, virtual monitoring and patient care.
Instead of depending upon medication, which often needs to be increased over time, the company is tackling the problem at its root and taking a fundamentally different approach that is better for the patient, and more economical for insurers. Among enrolled patients in its clinical trial at one year, 60% achieved diabetes reversal.
While platforms like Vida Health also serve similar markets, the large number of prediabetic (88M) and diabetic (30M) Americans presents a significant opportunity for growth. Along with its significant funding round in 2021 fueling its efforts to expand the reach of its telehealth-powered diabetes reversal treatment. Positioning the company for widespread adoption and continued success in addressing this critical healthcare challenge.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2021
$133m
SERIES E
Dec 2020
$65m
SERIES D
Total funding: $373m
Company benefits
- Remote-first work environment with ability to work from home
- Flexible work hours & time off policy
- Virta pays 99% of all employee health insurance premiums, and 75% for all dependents
- Up to 16 weeks paid parental leave
- Enroll in the Virta treatment for free and give a discount to friends and family
- Internet, home office, learning & development stipends
- Employee Resource Groups like Parents of Virta, Ladies of Virta, and Virtans for DEI
- 401K and ROTH contribution opportunities
Company HQ
Civic Center, Denver, CO
Leadership
Sami Inkinen
(Co-Founder & CEO)Worked on Microsoft’s strategy team for MS Office, and as a consultant for McKinsey & Company within the software, telecommunications, and government sectors. Co-founder of online real estate marketplace Trulia, serving as its COO until its IPO and eventual sale to Zillow Group.
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