Lead Product Designer

About Lyra Health

Lyra is transforming mental health care through technology with a human touch to help people feel emotionally healthy at work and at home. We work with industry leaders, such as Morgan Stanley, Uber, Amgen, and other Fortune 500 companies, to improve access to effective, high-quality mental health care for their employees and their families. With our innovative digital care platform and global provider network, 17 million people can receive the best care and feel better, faster. Founded by David Ebersman, former CFO of Facebook and Genentech, Lyra has raised more than $900 million.

About the Role: 

Lyra Health is looking for a Lead Product Designer to help craft solutions across every step of the mental health journey. As a product designer at Lyra, you’ll lead projects to successful outcomes for users and the business by approaching problems holistically and creating elegantly simple solutions to multi-faceted, complex problems. In this role, you’ll work from idea to implementation alongside product designers, product managers, engineers, clinicians, and executives to shape the design ecosystem for millions of users.

The Product Design Team is seeking a Lead Product Designer to join us in the following area:

Client Enrollment & Systems team: You'll enhance our platform's configurability and scalability to support new member eligibility, access, and account requests, improving the experience for members, clients, and partners. You'll also focus on expanding coverage and features for existing customers to win renewals, and invest in core areas like member identity management, eligibility, and data privacy to enhance our member accounts.

Additionally, this role includes working with designers and front-end engineers to maintain and evolve Lyra’s design system, and leading various accessibility initiatives. 

This role can be carried out from our Burlingame, CA headquarters, hybrid, or fully remote/virtually. Remote candidates must be physically located within the United States.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end user journey from ideation to final production
• Maintain and evolve Lyra’s holistic design system and component library
• Influence the shape of the product with research and data while executing designs using high-quality wireframes, user journeys, cross-platform interactive prototypes, and pixel-perfect visual design
• Design experiences across all of our platforms: iOS, Android, Web
• Participate in design critiques and present work regularly in stakeholder feedback meetings
• Evaluate design opportunities through UX research interviews
• Build relationships with cross-functional team members across disciplines, and effectively speak to process, goals, and team vision
• Partner closely with engineers as they build and ship solutions

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience working in UX, UI, HCI related field with experience working on mobile
• Proven track record of working within a product team to ship successful products to users
• Experience implementing robust design systems across a range of platforms in an iterative software development environment
• Deep knowledge of accessibility standards (e.g. WCAG) is a must; experience navigating complex legal/regulatory requirements is a plus 
• Highly proficient with design tools (Figma, Principle, etc)
• Proficient with UI development tools (Storybook, Chromatic, etc)
• Ability to think big and understand complex feature sets, shaping design for multi-disciplinary projects with input from many stakeholders
• Mastery of design craft
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work well on a highly collaborative and cross-functional team
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic startup environment
• Portfolio of UX-focused work samples for web and mobile applications
• Bachelor's degree in graphic design, visual communication, HCI, or equivalent practical experience

Diversity & Inclusion at Lyra

• Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) at Lyra is essential to the way we deliver culturally responsive care, build and manage our provider network, and support holistic efforts to strengthen DEIB in workplaces around the world—including our own.
• People come to Lyra with a range of needs, backgrounds, and abilities that influence their response to mental health support. Our diverse network of providers delivers comprehensive mental health treatment and support rooted in culturally responsive care, a multicultural approach that accounts for the impact of cultural backgrounds on each person’s care experience. 
• Learn more at: DEIB

"We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetic information or any other category protected by law.

By applying for this position, you acknowledge that your personal information will be processed as per the Lyra Health Workforce Privacy Notice. Through this application, to the extent permitted by law, we will collect personal information from you including, but not limited to, your name, email address, gender identity, employment information, and phone number for the purposes of recruiting and assessing suitability, aptitude, skills, qualifications, and interests for employment with Lyra. We may also collect information about your race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation, which is considered sensitive personal information under the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) and special category data under the UK and EU GDPR. Providing this information is optional and completely voluntary, and if you provide it you consent to Lyra processing it for the purposes as described at the point of collection, for example for diversity and inclusion initiatives. If you are a California resident and would like to limit how we use this information, please use the Limit the Use of My Sensitive Personal Information form. This information will only be retained for as long as needed to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, as described above. Please note that Lyra does not “sell” or “share” personal information as defined by the CPRA. Outside of the United States, for example in the EU, Switzerland and the UK, you may have the right to request access to, or a copy of, your personal information, including in a portable format; request that we delete your information from our systems; object to or restrict processing of your information; or correct inaccurate or outdated personal information in our systems. These rights may be subject to legal limitations. To exercise your data privacy rights outside of the United States, please contact [email protected]. For more information about how we use and retain your information, please see our Workforce Privacy Notice."