Design Manager

The Role & Your Mission

We are seeking a Design Manager to lead and grow our design team, reporting to our CEO. You will guide a small, high-impact team building an AI-native platform to drive regulatory workflows in drug development. User experience is a key challenge and differentiator in bringing AI to drug development, and Weave is on the frontline, having established a reputation for outstanding usability, simplicity, and intuitiveness. The remit of our Design Manager is to burnish that reputation: protect what we have, guide further development of highly usable AI-infused workflows, and champion design culture throughout the organization. This is an opportunity to cultivate a world-class model of human-AI interaction in Weave’s user experience.

This role pairs strategic leadership with hands-on excellence: you will oversee the full design function while maintaining mastery across research, UX, and UI. As a player coach you will be expected to roll up your sleeves while also guiding and growing your team through what will continue to be a scrappy and rewarding phase of company growth.

What You'll Own

• Lead & mentor the design team: Provide direction, feedback, and coaching to help designers grow and deliver outstanding work.
• Drive cross-functional alignment: Partner closely with product and engineering to set priorities, refine workflows, and ensure cohesive execution.
• Guide research & UX strategy: Oversee user research and ensure insights translate into intuitive, effective end-to-end experiences.
• Maintain a high bar for UI craft: Uphold strong visual standards and contribute hands-on design work when needed.
• Evolve the design system: Ensure our design system scales with the product and supports fast, consistent iteration.

What You’ll Bring

• Design virtuoso turned leader: You possess a refined aesthetic sense and deep UX expertise, with a portfolio demonstrating mastery—and the ability to coach others toward that same level.
• Experienced in B2B complexity: You’ve designed for complex B2B SaaS products, ideally in life sciences, drug development, or regulated industries.
• Scientifically conversant: You’re fluent in the concepts our customers work with and can guide the team in translating technical workflows into elegant product experiences.
• Empathetic, inquisitive leader: You naturally question how people think and work, and you help your team build understanding and empathy into every decision.
• Pragmatic decision-maker: You know when to explore, when to converge, and how to guide teams through ambiguity with clarity and momentum.
• 7+ years of product design experience, with at least 2+ years managing or leading designers, ideally in B2B SaaS environments.
  Demonstrated ability to build, mentor, and inspire design teams while remaining hands-on in your craft.
• Strong portfolio showcasing excellence in UX, UI, and end-to-end product design.

What We Offer

🎯 The opportunity to work at a modern, cutting-edge healthcare technology company devoted to meaningful positive impact on human life. Collaboration, velocity, and customer obsession are our baseline, demonstrations of craftsmanship and ROI are celebrated.

🏆 Competitive salary ($185,000 - $225,000) and equity packages.

🧬 Comprehensive health, dental and vision insurance

🏝️ Take care of you and yours: generous PTO, parental leave, OneMedical, TalkSpace, Teladoc.

🚀 Career development opportunities within a company entering a growth phase.

🌎 This position is based in San Francisco with flexibility to work remotely 2 days/week.