What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Designer position at Allara?
Allara is a telemedicine platform delivering expert, multidisciplinary healthcare for women with hormonal conditions, covered by many insurance plans. Allara’s comprehensive telehealth platform pairs patients with a dedicated care team to provide expert medical guidance, nutrition and lifestyle coaching, and personalized treatment plans that go beyond the basics. As one of the fastest-growing women’s health platforms in the US, Allara provides innovative, high-quality care while addressing long-overlooked gaps in the healthcare system for women with hormonal health needs.
About the Role
Allara is looking for a Lead Designer to elevate and evolve our visual identity across every touchpoint, from marketing campaigns to internal communications. In this role, you’ll translate business and brand strategy into compelling creative assets that bring our mission to life. You’ll be the design engine behind our brand storytelling, working closely with cross-functional teams and creative partners to maintain consistency, clarity, and quality across channels.
This is a high-impact, hands-on role ideal for a designer who loves balancing brand expression with performance, thrives in fast-paced environments, and brings a sharp eye and collaborative spirit to every project.
Hybrid (NYC): We value in-person collaboration and aim for at least three days per week in our NYC office, with flexibility as needed.
What You’ll Do
You’re a thoughtful, creative who blends strategy, systems thinking, and strong design execution. You’ve had experience leading brand and marketing design in fast-paced, high-growth environments, and you’re excited to help shape the future of women’s health through thoughtful visual design. You’re collaborative, curious, and deeply committed to elevating brand storytelling through visual expression.
Required Qualifications
Compensation & Career Growth
Work Environment & Flexibility
About the Role
Allara is looking for a Lead Designer to elevate and evolve our visual identity across every touchpoint, from marketing campaigns to internal communications. In this role, you’ll translate business and brand strategy into compelling creative assets that bring our mission to life. You’ll be the design engine behind our brand storytelling, working closely with cross-functional teams and creative partners to maintain consistency, clarity, and quality across channels.
This is a high-impact, hands-on role ideal for a designer who loves balancing brand expression with performance, thrives in fast-paced environments, and brings a sharp eye and collaborative spirit to every project.
Hybrid (NYC): We value in-person collaboration and aim for at least three days per week in our NYC office, with flexibility as needed.
What You’ll Do
- Design high-quality assets for digital campaigns, paid and organic social, email, website, product marketing, and internal communications
- Evolve and maintain Allara’s visual identity and brand systems, ensuring consistency and polish across all channels
- Translate briefs and strategic goals into on-brand, effective creative concepts
- Collaborate closely with Growth Marketing, Product, and Operations teams to execute creative across multiple initiatives
- Participate in concept development and support art direction for photoshoots and creative production
- Create and manage templates, guidelines, and scalable design systems for team-wide use
- Explore and incorporate new tools and technologies (including AI design tools and motion/interactive design) into your workflow
You’re a thoughtful, creative who blends strategy, systems thinking, and strong design execution. You’ve had experience leading brand and marketing design in fast-paced, high-growth environments, and you’re excited to help shape the future of women’s health through thoughtful visual design. You’re collaborative, curious, and deeply committed to elevating brand storytelling through visual expression.
Required Qualifications
- 4–6 years of experience in brand, visual, or marketing design, ideally in-house at a consumer-facing company or high-growth startup
- Strong portfolio showcasing work across brand identity, digital marketing, social media, email, and presentation design
- Fluency in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign)
- Experience building and maintaining brand systems and templates
- Organized and self-directed, with the ability to manage multiple projects and timelines
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, comfortable working with stakeholders across teams
- Experience supporting photoshoots or video production is a plus
- Familiarity with AI tools, motion design, or video editing is a plus
- Experience designing for health, wellness, or femtech brands
- Motion design or video editing skills to create dynamic assets for social, email, and web
- Familiarity with AI creative tools and a willingness to experiment with new technologies
- Experience building scalable design systems and templates that support growing teams
Compensation & Career Growth
- $103,500 - $120,750 plus equity
- Professional development & employee learning programs
Work Environment & Flexibility
- Hybrid (3 days in our NYC office)
- Unlimited PTO & 11 company holidays
- Annual onsite in NYC
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits
- Health Savings Account (HSA) & Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Long- and short-term disability coverage
- Annual employee wellness stipend
- 401(k) plan
- Parental leave & family planning support benefits
- Company-issued laptop
- Annual work-from-home stipend
- A collaborative, mission-driven culture focused on improving patient care
Salary : $103,500 - $120,750