Design Lead

The Company

Cerbo
· Opti Mantra is a healthcare technology company built for the practices actively changing how medicine is delivered. Our platforms serve functional, integrative, direct primary care, concierge, med spa, and behavioral health practitioners who need software that keeps pace with how they work -- not the other way around.

Each platform is a purpose-built EHR and practice management solution. Cerbo is architected for clinical depth: deep configuration, protocol‑specific workflows, and the kind of flexibility that holistic and functional medicine practices require. Opti Mantra is structured for scale: multi‑modality breadth, out‑of‑the‑box readiness, and the operational infrastructure that growing practices rely on.

Together, our two platforms form a leading presence in this rapidly expanding market. Our practitioners are redefining what a patient experience can look like. We exist to give them the technology foundation to do exactly that -- at whatever size and pace they choose to grow.

Most Design Lead roles mean inheriting someone else’s system, someone else’s team, and someone else’s problems. This one is different.

As our first Design Lead, you own the design function across both Cerbo and Opti Mantra – the standards, the team, the culture. You’re building from scratch. Two products, two design philosophies, one shared mission. The work you do here will be visible in every screen, every workflow, and every patient interaction.

This is a player‑coach role. You’ll be in Figma every week, shipping your own work alongside the team’s. You’ll report directly to the CPO. If you want a clean canvas and real autonomy, this is it.

• Build the design function. Establish design standards, a component library, and a shared design system that works across two distinct platforms.
• Own the end‑to‑end user experience for both platforms. Cerbo is a power‑user, configuration‑heavy product. Opti Mantra is clean, guided, and role‑based. You hold the UX vision for each without letting them blur.
• Partner closely with Product and Engineering. You sit in discovery, review specs, challenge assumptions, and push for better solutions. Design is not a service desk here; it is a strategic function.
• Talk to users. Clinicians, practice managers, front‑desk staff. You run usability sessions, observe workflows in the wild, and bring user evidence into every design decision.
• Design for AI. Intelligent workflows and predictive tooling are on the roadmap. You will shape how AI shows up in the product experience.
• Ship. We are a small team that moves fast. You prototype, test, iterate, and deliver production‑ready designs. Pixel‑perfect decks that never ship are not what we need.

• 7+ years of product design experience, with at least 2 leading a design team or function. You still design every week, and you like it that way.
• A portfolio that shows range: complex workflows, data‑dense screens, onboarding flows, and clean consumer‑grade UI. Bonus if it includes healthcare or clinical software.
• Systems thinker. You build design systems, not just screens. You see the patterns across features and create consistency without killing creativity.
• Strong in both UX and UI, and an expert in Figma. You can map a clinical workflow end to end and make it look beautiful at the same time.
• Experience managing designers (employees or contractors). You set direction, give sharp feedback, and manage quality and throughput without micromanaging.
• Comfortable working across two products with different design philosophies. Cerbo is dense and power‑user oriented. Opti Mantra is clean and guided. You respect the difference.
• Technically fluent enough to partner with front‑end engineers on implementation, and a clear communicator who presents design rationale to PMs, engineers, and leadership with conviction. You understand responsive design, accessibility, and what is feasible in a sprint.
• You use AI in your own design process (prototyping, research synthesis, content generation) and can point to concrete examples. AI fluency is a baseline expectation here, not a bonus.

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