Our healthcare system is the leading cause of personal bankruptcy in the U.S. Every year, over 50 million Americans suffer adverse financial consequences as a result of seeking care, from lower credit scores to garnished wages. The challenge is only getting worse, as high deductible health plans are the fastest growing plan design in the U.S.
Cedar’s mission is to leverage data science, smart product design and personalization to make healthcare more affordable and accessible. Today, healthcare providers still engage with its consumers in a “one-size-fits-all” approach; and Cedar is excited to leverage consumer best practices to deliver a superior experience.
The Role
Cedar is seeking a Product Designer to be a part of our team! As the Product Designer, you will be responsible for the end-to-end product design process. You will become a specialist in a key area of our business to craft tools and resources critical to our users and our mission. You’ll be responsible for researching and understanding user needs and motivations, as well as engaging with various partners to evolve our products to meet those needs.
This candidate will do more than just push pixels; this person will help move metrics that matter to our company. They will put users first by understanding their behavior, and apply this empathy to craft meaningful solutions. Additionally, they will be a strong systems thinker that will solve to scale a world-class experience, one patient at a time.
Responsibilities
- Partner with product managers and engineers to drive business solutions
- Lead the end-to-end product design process for the patient product area
- Manage stakeholders and help build consensus throughout the product development cycle
- Take research insights and develop them into product concepts for market testing
- Scale designs across user types and use cases
- Participate in discovery with clients and present designs for feedback
Skills & Experience
- 5+ years of product design experience
- Strong consensus building, persuasion, and presentation skills
- Ability to work with clients and communicate clearly around design decisions
- Ability to own the end to end design and design solution for your product area
- Apply design thinking and service design to build flows that are simple and delightful
- Experience working on a cross-functional product development team
- Proven ability to execute on visual and interaction details within a design system
- Positive demeanor and strong interpersonal skills
- Thrives in ambiguity and fast-paced environments
Bonus Qualifications
- Experience working in B2B products
- Consulting or other client-facing experience
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Cedar will not hire any applicants for Product Designer who are present in the United States on an F-1 visa. Cedar is not an E-Verify employer and cannot employ individuals on a STEM OPT extension.
Compensation Range and Benefits
- Salary/Hourly Rate Range*: $140,250 - $165,000
- This role is equity eligible
- This role offers a competitive benefits and wellness package
*Subject to location, experience, and education
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What do we offer to the ideal candidate?
- A chance to improve the U.S. healthcare system at a high-growth company! Our leading healthcare financial platform is scaling rapidly, helping millions of patients per year
- Unless stated otherwise, most roles have flexibility to work from home or in the office, depending on what works best for you
- For exempt employees: Unlimited PTO for vacation, sick and mental health days–we encourage everyone to take at least 20 days of vacation per year to ensure dedicated time to spend with loved ones, explore, rest and recharge
- 16 weeks paid parental leave with health benefits for all parents, plus flexible re-entry schedules for returning to work
- Diversity initiatives that encourage Cedarians to bring their whole selves to work, including three employee resource groups: be@cedar (for BIPOC-identifying Cedarians and their allies), Pridecones (for LGBTQIA+ Cedarians and their allies) and Cedar Women+ (for female-identifying Cedarians)
- Competitive pay, equity (for qualifying roles) and health benefits that start on the first of the month following your start date (or on your start date if your start date coincides with the first of the month)
- Cedar matches 100% of your 401(k) contributions, up to 3% of your annual compensation
- Access to hands-on mentorship, employee and management coaching, and a team discretionary budget for learning and development resources to help you grow both professionally and personally
About us
Cedar was co-founded by Florian Otto and Arel Lidow in 2016 after a negative medical billing experience inspired them to help improve our healthcare system. With a commitment to solving billing and patient experience issues, Cedar has become a leading healthcare technology company fueled by remarkable growth. "Over the past several years, we've raised more than $350 million in funding & have the active support of Thrive and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).
As of November 2024, Cedar is engaging with 30 million patients annually and is on target to process $3.5 billion in patient payments annually. Cedar partners with more than 55 leading healthcare providers and payers including Highmark Inc., Allegheny Health Network, Novant Health, Allina Health and Providence.
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