What are the responsibilities and job description for the Founding Designer / Design Lead position at Assort Health?
About The Company
Our mission is to make exceptional healthcare accessible anytime, anywhere, for everyone.
Assort is led by Jon (Founder of Shimmer YC S21, 7 publications in healthcare AI, former UCSF med student, Stanford grad in top 3%) and Jeff (former Head of Product Engineering at Athelas/Commure, first engineer at Cameo, engineer at Facebook, Duke grad).
In 2023, Assort became the first voice AI to answer phone calls for patients. Since then, we’ve facilitated over 25 million patient interactions, helping health systems automate operational tasks and navigate care at scale. We're growing fast — with millions in ARR every month and 10x growth since January.
We’re well-capitalized, with 3× revenue growth since Series A, and backed by leading investors including Quiet Capital, First Round, and Chemistry. Strategic angels include the former CMO of Flatiron Health, a board director of Athena Health, and founders of Infinitus, Mercury, Mammoth Biosciences, and PathAI.
Join us to build and scale Assort OS — a customizable fleet of genAI agents that power seamless, intelligent interactions between patients and providers.
About The Role
You’re a Designer with strong instincts for brand and systems. You know how to craft experiences that are both elegant and effective—across web, product, and narrative surfaces. You move fast, sweat the details, and care deeply about how things feel, not just how they look.
You’ll own design across Assort—from marketing site to dashboards, call summaries, onboarding flows, and pitch decks. You’ll build our first design system and evolve our brand identity, working closely with product, engineering, and GTM to bring clarity to every user touchpoint.
This role is perfect for someone who thrives at the intersection of product and brand storytelling, and who’s excited to work closely with engineering, product, and go-to-market from day one.
What You’ll Do
We have published our operating principles "Raising the BAARS in Healthcare" on our blog - they describe how we work at Assort. They cover how we aim to run projects, spend time and make decisions. Specifically:
Our mission is to make exceptional healthcare accessible anytime, anywhere, for everyone.
Assort is led by Jon (Founder of Shimmer YC S21, 7 publications in healthcare AI, former UCSF med student, Stanford grad in top 3%) and Jeff (former Head of Product Engineering at Athelas/Commure, first engineer at Cameo, engineer at Facebook, Duke grad).
In 2023, Assort became the first voice AI to answer phone calls for patients. Since then, we’ve facilitated over 25 million patient interactions, helping health systems automate operational tasks and navigate care at scale. We're growing fast — with millions in ARR every month and 10x growth since January.
We’re well-capitalized, with 3× revenue growth since Series A, and backed by leading investors including Quiet Capital, First Round, and Chemistry. Strategic angels include the former CMO of Flatiron Health, a board director of Athena Health, and founders of Infinitus, Mercury, Mammoth Biosciences, and PathAI.
Join us to build and scale Assort OS — a customizable fleet of genAI agents that power seamless, intelligent interactions between patients and providers.
About The Role
You’re a Designer with strong instincts for brand and systems. You know how to craft experiences that are both elegant and effective—across web, product, and narrative surfaces. You move fast, sweat the details, and care deeply about how things feel, not just how they look.
You’ll own design across Assort—from marketing site to dashboards, call summaries, onboarding flows, and pitch decks. You’ll build our first design system and evolve our brand identity, working closely with product, engineering, and GTM to bring clarity to every user touchpoint.
This role is perfect for someone who thrives at the intersection of product and brand storytelling, and who’s excited to work closely with engineering, product, and go-to-market from day one.
What You’ll Do
- Redesign and own our marketing site — including homepage, product pages, and careers — to reflect our next stage of growth.
- Build our first design system from scratch and scale it across app, web, and brand surfaces.
- Design new product experiences from the ground up — like our patient call summaries and voice agent dashboards.
- Shape how Assort shows up: across decks, demo visuals, onboarding flows, and more.
- Partner with Product, Eng, and GTM to ship fast, test constantly, and improve with every release.
- 4–8 years of experience designing and shipping digital products — ideally in SaaS, healthcare, or ops-heavy tools — with both product UX and brand instinct.
- A portfolio that shows taste and results — whether it’s a clean scheduling flow, a flexible design system, or a homepage that converts.
- You’ve owned design systems and shipped features — not just concepts. You think in components and scale across surfaces (dashboards, EMRs, slides).
- Proficiency with Figma, Webflow, Slides, and modern tools (AI plugins, Notion AI, etc.) to move quickly and iterate faster.
- You turn messy real-world workflows (scheduling, triage, call handling) into intuitive, focused UI.
- You thrive in scrappy early-stage teams where speed, clarity, and clean handoffs matter more than perfect specs.
- You can move between Marketing and Product, polish and velocity, critique and alignment — without dropping your standards.
- Scope & Autonomy – Own design end-to-end: product, brand, and everything in between. You’ll report directly to the founders and define our design foundation from scratch.
- Career Upside – Opportunity to grow into Head of Design as we scale from Series A → B and expand the team.
- Culture of Builders – Collaborative, fast-moving, low-ego team focused on impact over polish. We move quickly, care deeply about users, and ship with pride.
- 💸 Competitive Compensation – Including salary and employee stock options so you share in our success.
- 📚 Lifelong Learning – Annual budget for professional development, plus training opportunities to help you grow.
- 💻 Office Setup Stipend – We’ll outfit your home office so it’s as productive as it is comfy.
- 🩺 Top-Tier Health Coverage – Full medical, dental, and vision insurance, because your health comes first.
- 🏖 Unlimited PTO – We trust you to take the time you need to recharge and come back ready to crush it.
- 🥗 Meals & Snacks – Lunch, dinner, and snack breaks that fuel great ideas.
- 💪 Wellness Stipend – Your physical and mental well-being matters, and we’ve got a monthly stipend to prove it.
- 👵 401(k) – Planning for the future starts today. We’ve got you covered.
We have published our operating principles "Raising the BAARS in Healthcare" on our blog - they describe how we work at Assort. They cover how we aim to run projects, spend time and make decisions. Specifically:
- Back to basics
- Accessibility for all
- Always accountable
- Relentless resilience
- Ship fast, ship often
Salary : $150,000 - $215,000
