Lead Product Designer

You will join a stellar design team as an experienced digital product designer who thrives in collaborative environments and is proficient in modern design tools, with Figma as the organization's primary tool. You will take ownership of ambiguous and challenging problems, shaping them into thoughtful and intuitive experiences that make a meaningful difference for hundreds of thousands of healthcare professionals. As a senior member of the design team and a founding member of the India design team, you will set a strong foundation for integrating design practices with engineering. You will combine deep UX expertise with strong visual craft, applying research insights, interaction patterns, and strategic storytelling to influence decisions and ship value. You will also act as a force multiplier for the entire product organization by designing, maintaining, and evolving the design system, ensuring it enhances efficiency, consistency, quality, and accessibility across multiple product surfaces. This is a hybrid role split between leading and supporting product design across all products and evolving the design system and design operations globally.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end design for complex product areas—from framing problems through polished delivery and iteration
• Define experience principles, flows, and interaction patterns that provide clarity across cross-functional teams
• Build high-fidelity prototypes to communicate concepts, test usability, and validate solutions
• Craft beautiful, emotionally compelling visual designs that reinforce product strategy and brand expression
• Collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, data teams, and operations to shape the roadmap and deliver measurable impact
• Own and evolve the design system—tokens, components, patterns, documentation, and guardrails—across all Cohere products
• Use AI to connect Figma designs with front-end code and generate rapid prototypes to validate design concepts
• Refine existing components and design new systematic elements that scale across complex workflows, product areas, and user needs
• Partner closely with designers and engineers to ensure components are technically feasible, accessible, resilient, and high-quality
• Participate in and contribute to design critiques—both giving and receiving feedback that raises quality across the team

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in software product design, with ownership of end-to-end delivery for multiple products or substantial product areas, with at least part of that time spent working on or heavily with a design system
• Proven ability to operate in complex domains—enterprise, healthcare, fintech, analytics, or similarly data-dense problem spaces
• Familiarity with frontend technologies (Google's Material Design, React, HTML/CSS, Design Tokens standards) to collaborate effectively with engineers
• Deep expertise in UX best practices, interaction design, and visual design craft
• Experience working with cross-functional agile scrum teams
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Design, HCI, Human Factors, or equivalent experience
• An outstanding portfolio demonstrating clear problem framing, user-centered design processes, design systems work, and the real impact of your work
• Strong storytelling and communication skills
• Strong conceptual thinking—balancing user needs, product strategy, business goals, and technical constraints
• Uses AI tools like Claude Code to accelerate design research, prototyping, and generation