Hinge Health is a company that recognizes the value of design – as a Staff Product Designer on our Design System team, you’ll join a tight-knit, collaborative team who cares deeply about creating cohesive and intuitive product experiences. Our team is at the center of solving impactful problems for millions of members who are managing their joint and muscle health, and making a meaningful difference in their lives.
In this role, you’ll directly shape the future of our Design System, focused on creating and evolving shared patterns and components to ensure a cohesive user experience across Hinge Health’s product suite. You’ll define not just what the system is, but how it evolves, how decisions get made, and how consistency and flexibility are balanced as Hinge Health ships rapidly.
This is a high-impact role, at an especially exciting time in Hinge Health’s journey. As we scale with 51% year-over-year revenue gains and a member base expanding by over 47% annually, this role will be instrumental in sustaining our momentum and shaping the future of care.
Learn more about Design at Hinge Health.
Own the Design System
Lead the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Hinge Health’s design system.
Define and evolve core components, patterns, tokens, and interaction standards used across the product.
Ensure the system supports a wide range of surfaces, from core product UI to Agent flows, enterprise templates, and integrated design systems.
Partner Deeply with Engineering
Collaborate closely with engineers on implementation details, tradeoffs, and system architecture.
Influence code-level decisions that affect system consistency and adoption.
Help shape tooling, Storybook usage, and contribution workflows so the system is easy to use and maintain.
Set Standards & Governance
Partner with feature teams through office hours and design reviews. You will help teams navigate patterns the system doesn't yet cover and decide when a design should become a global standard or remain a local solution.
Establish clear contribution models, review processes, and decision-making frameworks for system changes.
Act as a design system “domain owner,” providing guidance and sign-off on system-level decisions.
Document principles, patterns, and rationale so decisions scale beyond individuals.
Raise the Bar for Design Quality
Identify inconsistencies, duplication, and fragmentation across the product and drive systematic improvements.
Balance speed with craft, knowing when to be opinionated and when to enable flexibility.
Advocate for system-level thinking across product, design, and engineering.
8+ years of product design experience, with deep ownership of a design system at scale.
A standout portfolio showcasing high-impact design systems work and leadership across complex systems initiatives.
Highly effective communicator with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and align teams around design direction.
Demonstrated success mentoring designers and elevating the quality of team output.
Deep fluency with tokens, component architecture, variants, and Figma systems craft.
Experience with Claude Code (or other agentic coding tools), MCPs, and other AI workflows.
Strong opinions on system governance, contribution models, and adoption strategies.
Experience partnering with platform engineers on implementation, parity, and release cadence.
Hinge Health leverages software, including AI, to largely automate care for joint and muscle health, delivering an outstanding member experience, improved member outcomes, and cost reductions for its clients. The company has designed its platform to address a broad spectrum of MSK care—from acute injury, to chronic pain, to post-surgical rehabilitation—and the platform can help to ease members’ pain, improve their function, and reduce their need for surgeries, all while driving health equity by allowing members to engage in their exercise therapy sessions from anywhere. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Learn more at http://www.hingehealth.com
Participation in our Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), allowing you to acquire company stock via payroll at a 15% discount against the lower market price.
Comprehensive and inclusive medical coverage and benefit programs for you and your dependents.
Flexible retirement savings through Traditional or Roth 401(k) investment paths.
Dedicated lifestyle stipends designed to fuel your professional growth and continuous learning.
Hinge Health is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. We make employment decisions without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, veteran status, disability status, pregnancy, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. We provide reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities. If you feel you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, let us know by reaching out to your recruiter. By submitting your application you are acknowledging we are using your personal data as outlined in the personnel and candidate privacy policy.
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Skills Required
- A standout and up-to-date portfolio demonstrating high-impact product work, leadership on complex initiatives, and measurable outcomes.
- 10+ years of product design experience, including close partnership with product and engineering teams.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Interaction, Industrial, Product, or Service Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or equivalent experience.
- Expertise in interaction and visual design with history of advancing craft quality across teams.
- Experience leading ambiguous problem spaces, setting vision, and defining design strategy across products or platforms.
- Strong fluency in data-informed design: forming hypotheses, partnering on experiments, facilitating research, and translating insights into action.
- Excellent communication and influence skills to align cross-functional partners and senior stakeholders.
- Demonstrated success mentoring other designers and elevating team output.
- Strong prototyping and systems-thinking skills to create cohesive experiences across flows, components, and surfaces.
- Champion accessibility, clarity, and product quality for diverse member needs.
- Ability to work hybrid: expected to be in San Francisco office three days per week.
- Experience designing progress tracking, dashboards, data visualization, or other data-rich product experiences.
- Experience simplifying complex systems into intuitive consumer-facing experiences, especially in health, wellness, or habit-forming product spaces.
- Proven facilitation skills and comfort leading leadership conversations on large, ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives.
- Experience contributing to or shaping design systems that scale quality and consistency.
- Curiosity about emerging AI tools and workflows and good judgment about their use.
- Passion for helping people live healthier lives through thoughtful design and technology.
Hinge Health Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Hinge Health and has not been reviewed or approved by Hinge Health.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as extensive, including medical, dental, vision, and mental-health support with employer-covered premiums. Coverage is reinforced by travel support for care when needed and access to fertility and other specialized services.
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Inclusive Benefits Coverage — Benefits explicitly cover gender-affirming care, reproductive healthcare travel, and family-building support such as fertility preservation, surrogacy, adoption, and IVF. These provisions indicate attention to diverse needs across employees and dependents.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off programs include flexible or unlimited PTO and paid parental leave. Remote-friendly policies and wellness supports further complement time away.
Hinge Health Insights
What We Do
Hinge Health is pioneering the world's most patient-centered digital hospital, starting with musculoskeletal health. Hinge Health's back and joint pain care pathways combine wearable sensor-guided exercise therapy with behavioral change through 1-on-1 health coaching and education.
Why Work With Us
When people go to work at Hinge Health, they take on more than a job—They have the opportunity to be a leader in the health space, while changing the lives of patients suffering from chronic pain. Hinge Health is a place where employees can experience continuous growth and development, a culture of feedback and open communication, and mutual trust.
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