What are the responsibilities and job description for the Founding Product Designer position at Mandolin?
About Mandolin
Nearly all disease will become treatable in our lifetimes, and drug discovery is quickly becoming an engineering discipline. Mandolin is building the “last-mile” delivery infrastructure that gets cutting-edge biologics, cell, and gene therapies to patients faster. Our AI-powered knowledge-worker platform already serves leading infusion clinics, with payers and pharma next in line.
We’re backed by Greylock, SignalFire, Maverick, and founders of famous companies like Yahoo, and led by repeat and exited founders with a team hailing from some of the most technically impressive companies.
Why we need you
As our Founding Product Designer, you’ll play a critical role in shaping Mandolin’s product experience from the ground up. This is a rare opportunity to define not just what our product looks like, but how it works and how people feel when using it. You’ll work closely with Engineering, Product, and customers to bring clarity to complex problems and design elegant, intuitive solutions that help drive real-world impact in healthcare.
What You’ll Do
Nearly all disease will become treatable in our lifetimes, and drug discovery is quickly becoming an engineering discipline. Mandolin is building the “last-mile” delivery infrastructure that gets cutting-edge biologics, cell, and gene therapies to patients faster. Our AI-powered knowledge-worker platform already serves leading infusion clinics, with payers and pharma next in line.
We’re backed by Greylock, SignalFire, Maverick, and founders of famous companies like Yahoo, and led by repeat and exited founders with a team hailing from some of the most technically impressive companies.
Why we need you
As our Founding Product Designer, you’ll play a critical role in shaping Mandolin’s product experience from the ground up. This is a rare opportunity to define not just what our product looks like, but how it works and how people feel when using it. You’ll work closely with Engineering, Product, and customers to bring clarity to complex problems and design elegant, intuitive solutions that help drive real-world impact in healthcare.
What You’ll Do
- Own end-to-end product design at Mandolin, shaping our design system, branding, user experience and more
- Lead product discovery — conduct user interviews, validate ideas with customers, define key problems to solve, and prototype rapidly
- Create a design and review process with Engineering from ideation to delivery
- Establish and evolve our design system across both web and internal tools
- Collaborate with the team to prioritize our product roadmap and shape strategy
- 4 years of experience at an Enterprise SaaS company
- Experience shipping at least one full product or a significant feature as the lead designer
- Strong presentation and collaboration skills
- Comfortable in fast-paced and ambiguous environments
- Fluency in Figma and prototyping tools
