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Staff Product Designer

Stepful · New York City · Remote

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About Stepful

Stepful is the fastest, most affordable way to get certified and hired in healthcare. Become a certified Medical Assistant, Pharmacy Tech, or Surgical Tech today! Backed by Y Combinator.

About the role

As our Staff Product Designer, you’ll be responsible for building rich, intuitive best in class experiences for students, instructors, and coaches. Your projects will range from designing delightful product experiences for students, maturing our design system, improving the platforms our coaches and instructors use daily and new products for Stepful partners. Use your product thinking, visual design, and system steward skills to design rich, intuitive best in class experiences for students, instructors and coaches

What they're looking for

  • 8+ years of work experience with a focus on product design across a variety of platforms from mobile to web
  • A deep understanding of the tech that powers digital products, and how to collaborate with engineering to make the most of emerging capabilities
  • An end-to-end versus waterfall approach to product, able to apply a wide variety of product design skills (e.g., design thinking, design strategy, user problem definition, information architecture, service design)
  • Experience driving user research to understand underlying pain points and needs and inform product strategy
  • Experience building relationships with teammates, influencing decisions at a variety of levels and across multiple teams
  • Experience or familiarity working with our tech stack: Figma, Claude, Storybook, Github, and Linear
More about this role

Stepful is a workforce platform redefining how America's largest health systems build, train, and retain their talent. Since our founding in 2021, Stepful’s trained over 32,000 practice-ready healthcare workers.

Layering onto our successful direct-to-consumer training, Stepful partners with leading healthcare institutions to address the growing national shortage of healthcare workers. We’re improving access to quality healthcare for everyone, everywhere, and improving access to healthcare career ladders for those who need them most.

Our students form the talent pipelines for major employers such as NY-Presbyterian, Mt. Sinai, HCA, Providence, CVS, and Walgreens. We have partnerships with half of the top 10 health systems in the US and are in process with many more.

Stepful is backed by Y Combinator, Reach Capital, and AlleyCorp, with a recent $55M Series C led by Oak HC/FT . We were named the #1 EdTech company in the U.S. by TIME for 2025 .

We credit much of our success to our exceptional team. We’re looking for mission-driven builders who thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments, and embody our four core values:

Care first : We do whatever it takes for our students to...

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