Founding Product Designer

📌 ABOUT ALPACA HEALTH

Alpaca Health enables clinicians to become entrepreneurs, starting in autism care.

We help clinicians launch and scale their own clinics by providing AI-powered software, payer contracting, and full back-office infrastructure. Our goal is simple: shift power in healthcare away from large consolidated entities and back to clinicians.

We've raised over $14M in funding from early-stage investors like Core Innovation Capital, Adverb Ventures, and South Park Commons, and are building for long-term category leadership. More importantly, we're serving hundreds of patients, while growing 30% MoM.

This role is full-time. We’re looking for candidates based in NYC or open to relocating who are open to 5 days a week in the office.

🎯 ROLE: FOUNDING PRODUCT DESIGNER

As our Founding Product Designer, you’ll take full ownership of the 0→1 build of our parent-facing experience — turning a fragmented, complex journey into something simple, clear, and trustworthy for families.

At the same time, you’ll lead a design overhaul of our provider-facing product, transforming a feature-rich but traditional EHR into a fast, intuitive, consumer-grade experience clinicians actually enjoy using.

You’ll work across both surfaces to create a cohesive system that balances clinical depth with usability, setting the design foundation for how care is delivered at scale.

🚧 WHAT YOU’LL DO

- Own the 0→1 build of our parent-facing portal — from concept to live product

- Design a seamless, consumer-grade experience for families navigating care (intake, scheduling, communication, payments)

- Elevate our provider-facing EHR to feel intuitive, fast, and delightful — not clunky healthcare software

- Conduct user interviews with parents, BCBAs, and staff to deeply understand workflows, pain points, and unmet needs

- Rapidly prototype and test user flows; iterate based on real usage and feedback

- Define product requirements, prioritize ruthlessly, and ship quickly alongside engineering

- Use AI tools (e.g., prototyping, workflow automation, copilots) to accelerate development and unlock new product capabilities

- Build systems that scale — not just features — including onboarding flows, engagement loops, and operational tooling

- Partner cross-functionally with ops, clinical, and growth teams to ensure product drives real outcomes (faster start of care, better retention, higher utilization)

🧠 WHO YOU ARE

- You are extremely product-minded and execution-driven — you don’t just define features, you build and ship

- You have a strong intuition for consumer products and can bring that bar into healthcare

- You’re comfortable in ambiguity and energized by 0→1 environments

- You talk to users constantly and turn insights into product decisions

- You have a bias for action and move fast without sacrificing quality

- You are fluent with modern AI tools and use them as a force multiplier in your workflow

- You care deeply about building products that actually improve people’s lives, not just internal tools

- You operate like an owner and hold a high bar for both yourself and the team

🚀 WHY JOIN

- Direct exposure to company-building at an early stage.

- Real ownership of critical initiatives from day one.

- The opportunity to materially impact families and clinicians.

- A fast learning curve that few roles can match.

- Strong compensation package

💵 Competitive salary

📈 Meaningful equity

🏥 Health benefits

🏖️ Flexible PTO

🍱 Dinner when working late