Product Designer (New Grad)

As a designer at Forward, you have a unique opportunity to redesign healthcare from the ground up. Forward is on a bold mission to make high quality healthcare available to a billion people across the globe with a vastly improved user experience—easier, more accessible, and massively more effective.We’re looking for designers to define this new world. As an early member of our design team, you’ll have a key role in defining Forward’s user experience, developing novel products and services, and evolving our first products. You’ll partner with an incredible group of world-class doctors, leaders, product managers, engineers and operators, within a culture that deeply prioritizes design and user experience.We’re highly funded by top investors, and since launching in 2017 have expanded nationwide. We’re looking for passionate, mission-oriented individuals to work with—we’re just getting started.Press And Videos

Virtual Tour of Forward [YouTube]Health Moves Forward [CEO Blog Post]Series D Funding Funds Doctor-led Programs [TechCrunch]Forward - What Quality Healthcare Should Look Like [Mashable]Primary Care Start-ups Vying for 170B Market [Business Insider]The Pivot to Virtual Care [Chief Medical Officer @ Stanford Medicine]The Meaning of Trans Broken-Arm Syndrome [USA Today]As a designer at Forward, you have a unique opportunity to redesign healthcare from the ground up.Forward is on a bold mission to make high quality healthcare available to a billion people across the globe with a vastly improved user experience—easier, more accessible, and massively more effective. We’re looking for designers to define this new world. As an early member of our design team, you’ll have a key role in defining Forward’s user experience, developing novel products and services, and evolving our first products. You’ll partner with an incredible group of world-class doctors, leaders, product managers, engineers and operators, within a culture that deeply prioritizes design and user experience.We’re highly funded by top investors, and since launching in 2017 have expanded nationwide. We’re looking for passionate, mission-oriented individuals to work with—we’re just getting started.Press And Videos

Virtual Tour of Forward [YouTube]Health Moves Forward [CEO Blog Post]Series D Funding Funds Doctor-led Programs [TechCrunch]Forward - What Quality Healthcare Should Look Like [Mashable]Primary Care Start-ups Vying for 170B Market [Business Insider]The Pivot to Virtual Care [Chief Medical Officer @ Stanford Medicine]The Meaning of Trans Broken-Arm Syndrome [USA Today]What You'll Do

• Create designs that will directly contribute to saving and improving people’s lives
• Work and collaborate alongside a top-tier team of fellow designers from IDEO, Uber and Amazon, and alongside founders, leaders, and PMs from Google, Tesla, Airbnb and more to participate in design critiques and reviews
• Combine the best of humans and technology through working with expert clinicians to deliver an amazing user experience, improve tools and patient outcomes, and design how the world’s first at-scale healthcare system should work
• Evolve and reinvent our clinics, Smart Screens, Body Scanners, mobile app, web platform, and custom clinical software and hardware, as well as new platforms
• Engage across the end to end design process, from concepting, prototyping and testing, refinement, and shipping
• Actively work with key stakeholders and leadership to drive decisions and design directions
• Partner with product managers and engineers to bring products to life—Forward ships products within days to a few months
  

What We're Looking For

• Mission-driven motivation with the ultimate goal to help others by bringing them access to better care. We want to bring people on board who share that passion and drive and are motivated to help us get there.
• Design decisions grounded in user research, metrics, and business goals
• A commitment to personal development and a learning mindset
• Can navigate ambiguity—a lot of Forward is designed from scratch, with a first-principles mindset and a question of “what’s possible?”
• Thriving in an environment of cross-functional collaboration and shared successes
• Proficient with design systems, design patterns, and accessibility
• Strong prototyping skills and a proven ability to clearly convey ideas and reasoning
• A Bachelor's or Master's in Design or Human-Computer Interaction, with internships and freelance experience preferred
  

The base salary range for this full-time position is $100,000-$185,000, plus equity and benefits. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, relevant education or training, and location.WHY JOIN FORWARD?

We don’t want to just move dollars around the healthcare industry - we want to rebuild it and fix it. All of it. You’d be a major part of the story behind one of the most ambitious startup attempts of the past decade and you’d work with a team of people who want to use their talents for good.We are an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with anti-discrimination law, it is the purpose of this policy to effectuate these principles and mandates. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type and afford equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We conform to the spirit as well as to the letter of all applicable laws and regulations. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.The base salary range for this full-time position is $100,000-$185,000, plus equity and benefits. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, relevant education or training, and location.WHY JOIN FORWARD?

We don’t want to just move dollars around the healthcare industry - we want to rebuild it and fix it. All of it. You’d be a major part of the story behind one of the most ambitious startup attempts of the past decade and you’d work with a team of people who want to use their talents for good.We are an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with anti-discrimination law, it is the purpose of this policy to effectuate these principles and mandates. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type and afford equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We conform to the spirit as well as to the letter of all applicable laws and regulations. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.Information collected and processed as part of any job application you choose to submit is subject to Forward’s Privacy Notice to California Job Applicants .