--- title: 'Staff Product Designer, Design Systems at Hinge Health' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/staff-product-designer-design-systems-hinge-health-san-francisco-s7q00bpjc80d' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-10' --- # Staff Product Designer, Design Systems at Hinge Health - **Company:** [Hinge Health](https://feeny.ai/companies/hinge-health) - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Compensation:** $195k–$268k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-06-05 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hinge-health/ebb10992-73df-4efb-85b1-979aba7f046d/application **Skills:** Interaction design, Visual design, Prototyping, Systems thinking, Data-informed design, Research facilitation, Data visualization, Dashboard design, Progress tracking design, Design systems, AI tools and workflows > Lead design vision and strategy for member-facing experiences, translating complex clinical data into simple interfaces. Partner with cross-functional teams to shape product direction, mentor designers, and drive high-impact outcomes in a hybrid role based in San Francisco. ## Job description ## About the Role 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](https://www.figma.com/deck/BYY49LPUPyASiHzuv0ifkw?desktop-link-click-timestamp=1780670549990&desktop-ul-exp-bucket=po). ## What You'll Accomplish 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. ## Basic Qualifications - 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. ## About Hinge Health 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 athttp://www.hingehealth.com/http://www.hingehealth.com ## What You'll Love About Us - 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. Culture and Engagement 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.](https://www.hingehealth.com/about/personnel-and-candidate-privacy-policy/) Beware of Phishing Attempts: We've noticed an increase in phishing where fraudsters impersonate employees and send fake job offers to steal sensitive information. We'll never ask for financial details during the hiring process and only use "@[hingehealth.com](http://hingehealth.com)" emails. If you receive a suspicious offer, stop communication and report it to the US FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center. To verify an email from our recruiting team, forward it to [security@hingehealth.com](https://app.ashbyhq.com/admin/organizational-settings/theme#). ## About Hinge Health ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Hinge Health delivers personalized virtual physical therapy and musculoskeletal (MSK) care by combining AI-powered motion tracking, an FDA-cleared wearable device, and a dedicated clinical care team. - **Entity Type**: Public (NYSE: HNGE) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States - **Founded**: 2014 - **Founders**: Gabriel Mecklenburg (Co-founder & Executive Chairman / CTO) ## Core Business - **Primary Industry**: Digital Healthcare – Musculoskeletal (MSK) and pelvic health. - **Target Customers**: B2B – employers, health plans, and benefits brokers. Indirectly B2C through members. - **Mission**: To create a new healthcare system built around the individual – moving beyond traditional physical therapy to deliver accessible, scalable, evidence-based pain care. ## Products & Services - **Virtual Physical Therapy Program**: Personalized care plans with guided exercise sessions using 3D motion tracking for real-time feedback and precision movement analysis. Includes access to a physical therapist, health coach, and orthopedic specialist. - **Enso® Wearable Device**: FDA-cleared device that uses patented waveforms for drug-free pain relief; exclusive to Hinge Health. - **AI Care Assistant**: An AI agent that helps members stay on track with their care plans. - **Pelvic Floor Therapy**: Virtual care for pelvic health, integrated with MSK services. - **Enterprise Implementation**: Seamless eligibility, billing, and reporting through partnerships with 5 out of 5 national health plans and 3 out of 3 PBMs. Value-based pricing and frictionless contracting. ## Market Standing - **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly available (post-IPO; specific market cap not disclosed in provided sources). - **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of **$587.9M** (2025) – [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/hinge-health). Total funding raised: **$1.46B**. - **Notable Investors / Partners**: Tiger Global Management, Coatue, Alkeon Capital, Whale Rock Capital Management. - **Growth Signals**: IPO in May 2025; headcount of 1,254 (+1.2% YoY); 75 active job postings (+31.6% year over year); expanded into pelvic floor therapy; operates in 11 countries. ## Competitive Advantages - **Clinically validated ROI** – independently validated 2.4x hard dollar return on investment for employers. - **AI-first care model** – uses 3D motion tracking, autonomous AI agents for reasoning and feedback, and regulatory-grade systems. - **Exclusive FDA-cleared device** (Enso®) that differentiates from traditional PT offerings. - **Deep integration** with major national health plans and PBMs, creating high switching costs. - **Business model aligned with outcomes** – revenue is tied to healing people, not billing procedures, enabling investment in direct care automation. ## Strategic Focus - Scale and automate healthcare delivery by building AI agents that perceive movement, reason biomechanics, and adapt clinical guidance in real time. - Expand into adjacent conditions (pelvic health) and deepen partnership integrations. - Continue engineering a culture where “designers code” and “engineers build interactive prototypes,” deploying agent-first workflows across hundreds of engineers. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Emphasis on autonomy, mastery, and purpose. The R&D blog describes an environment where engineers review reasoning logs instead of diffs and where AI agents ship PRs without human line edits. - **Work Model**: Hybrid/office presence – HQ in San Francisco with offices in India, Canada, UK, and Colombia. Specific remote policy not detailed in sources. - **Impact**: Opportunity to work on regulatory-grade AI that directly improves clinical outcomes for millions of people. - **Reviews**: Employer rating of 3.8/5 on LinkedIn; strong scores for work-life balance (3.7) and compensation (3.7). - **Notable Perks**: Not explicitly listed, but the culture of “impact at scale” and investment in R&D suggests strong engineering support. ## Sources 1. [hingehealth.com](https://www.hingehealth.com/) 2. [hingehealth.com/about](https://www.hingehealth.com/about/) 3. [rnd.hingehealth.com](https://rnd.hingehealth.com/) 4. [linkedin.com/company/hinge-health](https://www.linkedin.com/company/hinge-health) 5. 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