About the Role
Design interface patterns for a new AI category and ship them. Co-own the product surface end-to-end, working at the intersection of engineering and product to translate customer needs into shippable interfaces. Contribute to the visual and interaction language for a new category, with outsized ownership over the company's growth.
Responsibilities
- Help define the design language for how Collate's AI capabilities show up to organizations operating under real regulatory pressure
- Turn ambiguous, technical, and compliance-heavy workflows into interfaces that feel simple and trustworthy
- Create mockups, prototypes, and high-fidelity visuals to communicate ideas and describe execution
- Partner daily with engineering and product to scope, prioritize, and ship
- Contribute to the craft bar for the product — interaction design, visual design, and the details that build trust with enterprise, regulated customers
Requirements
- 5+ years of product design experience with a track record of shipping software end to end
- A builder's instinct — you'd rather be in Figma next to an engineer than presenting a polished deck
- High agency and comfort with ambiguity; you can walk into a fast-moving, lightly-processed environment and bring structure without slowing anyone down
- Genuine comfort working directly with founders and engineers on 0-to-1 problems
- Energized by ambiguity, not looking for it to be resolved before you start
- Communication style is clear and direct
Experience Level
- 5+ years of product design experience
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive, depending on experience and level (Tier 1, San Francisco)
Benefits
- Impact: Build systems and experiences that touch real patients and providers, improving healthcare outcomes.
- Ownership: Shape both our product experience and our engineering culture from the start.
- Learning: Collaborate with a uniquely interdisciplinary team—AI researchers, healthcare leaders, and experienced startup builders.
- Upside: Join a company early enough to have meaningful equity and career-defining impact.
About the Company
- Collate is an AI document generation platform for life sciences that automates paperwork with AI, helping customers get life-saving innovations to patients years faster.
- Collate is an end-to-end solution, powering every step of drug, diagnostic, and medical device development—from concept to market.
- Our CEO Surbhi Sarna is a former General Partner at Y Combinator and founder of nVision Medical, acquired by Boston Scientific.
- Our CTO Nate Smith is a former Visiting Partner at Y Combinator and founder of Lever.
- Our AI researchers, engineers, and designers have worked at Google, Nvidia, Meta, Netflix, Amazon, AirBnB, Hippocratic AI, and Grail.
- 40% of our team are former founders.
- We're an elite team, with $125M in funding from top investors (Redpoint, First Round Capital, CRV, Conviction, Y Combinator) and leaders in healthcare and AI.
- This is a rare chance to join an early-stage company with world-changing potential, experienced founders, and resources to execute at scale.
