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! The Product Designer 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.
Our ideal candidate will do more than just push pixels; this person will help move metrics that matter to our company. This candidate will put users first by understanding their behavior, and apply this empathy to craft meaningful solutions. Additionally, this candidate 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 your product area
- Participate in discovery with clients and present designs for feedback
- 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
- Guide long-term vision and design strategy for new products
- Mentor and provide guidance for other designers on the team to raise the bar across the team
Skills & Experience
- 5+ years of product design experience
- Strong consensus building, persuasion, and presentation skills
- Ability to work with stakeholders and 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 in an iterative process
- Proven ability to execute on visual and interaction details within a design system
- Positive attitude and strong interpersonal skills
- Thrives in ambiguity and fast-paced environments. Ability to jump in and learn fast.
Bonus Qualifications
- Experience working in B2B products
- Consulting or other client-facing experience
Compensation Range and Benefits
- 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 PTO 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 the Cedarian Advisory Group (a cross-functional cohort focused on increasing internal inclusiveness at Cedar) and 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 from investors such as Andreessen Horowitz and Tiger Global, bringing Cedar’s valuation to $3.2 billion.
As of December 2023, Cedar is engaging with 25 million patients on an annualized basis, and is on target to process $2.6 billion in patient payments annually. Cedar’s ambition is to serve 50-60 million Americans by 2025, about half of the U.S. population that makes medical 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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What We Do
With an innovative platform that connects providers and payers, Cedar empowers healthcare consumers with a personalized journey from appointment confirmation to payment—all powered by data science and interactive design. We're solving the biggest problems in healthcare, and we'd love your help. Explore our page to learn why we're a great place to work.
Why Work With Us
At Cedar, you’ll work with a smart, talented team, devoted to solving a problem that impacts millions of consumers annually. We offer competitive pay, great healthcare, stock options, unlimited PTO, daily lunch and snacks, wellness offerings, and more—plus the exciting opportunity to join a high-growth company.
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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Cedar has adopted a hybrid work model that enables all Cedarians to work in a way that best serves them and their work at Cedar.
