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Staff Product Designer

Tempus AI · Chicago, IL · Full time

Posted Jul 14, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026

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Written from this job description, not a generic list. Each one notes what the interviewer is really checking.

About your past

Walk me through an end-to-end workflow you designed for a complex data operation. How did you map the system?

What they are checking: Systems thinking across many user roles, which is the core of this staff role.

Tell me about a time you shaped product or business strategy, not just the interface.

What they are checking: Staff-level influence on direction, as the posting expects.

How do you simplify a complex technical idea so leadership and engineers align on it?

What they are checking: Communication that builds trust and alignment across functions.

How do you mentor other designers at the staff level?

What they are checking: Whether they raise the quality of the whole design team.

What would you do

How would you design tools for curators who structure molecular and clinical data all day?

What they are checking: Ability to design for expert, high-volume internal users where speed and precision matter.

Our Next platform helps clinicians take the next guideline-based step in care. How would you make sure clinicians trust what they see?

What they are checking: Understanding of trust, clarity and clinical safety in AI-enabled interfaces.

Engineering says your design is too costly to build this quarter. What do you do?

What they are checking: Ability to find tradeoffs and phased plans without losing the design's core value.

About the work

How do you design for data that flows to downstream users and applications you do not control?

What they are checking: Thinking about dependencies, data contracts and the ripple effects of design choices.

How do you research workflows when users are pathologists, clinicians or data curators with little time?

What they are checking: Whether they have practical research methods that work with busy, specialized experts who have little spare time.

How do you measure whether a workflow redesign made operations faster or more precise?

What they are checking: Commitment to measurable outcomes like time, error rate and throughput.

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The full job description

As published by Tempus AI.

Passionate about precision medicine and advancing the healthcare industry? Recent advancements in underlying technology have finally made it possible for AI to impact clinical care in a meaningful way. Tempus' proprietary platform connects an entire ecosystem of real-world evidence to deliver real-time, actionable insights to physicians, providing critical information about the right treatments for the right patients, at the right time. About the Role As a Staff Product Designer, you will apply systems thinking to design end-to-end, platform-level workflows, ensuring technical data operations are faster, more precise, and highly scalable for diverse user roles. In this position, you will be instrumental in designing the workflows and systems for data content, managing how molecular and clinical data is ingested, curated, structured, and distributed to downstream users and dependent applications. A key consumer of this data ecosystem is Tempus' AI-enabled Next platform, where you will also contribute, ensuring that clinical users receive the precise data they need to deliver the next guideline-based step in a patient's care journey. Across both areas, you will work closely with leadership, product, engineering, and other stakeholders to shape a technology-forward business strategy, aligning cross-functional partners and building trust through communication that simplifies ideas and anchors teams toward a direction. As a leader, you are expected to drive the end-to-end vision of your design solutions, taking full accountability for their impact while ensuring they meet our design standards and are rigorously validated by research. You regularly participate in design feedback, stakeholder management, and prioritization of work. Day to Day Responsibilities Influence & Approach • Act as a strategic thought-leader alongside product management and senior leadership • Manage and maintain precision in all communication; be a leader and proponent of disambiguation • Foster a culture of documentation and knowledge-sharing across several teams and their respective business stakeholders; actively demonstrate these behaviors. • Anticipate and mitigate roadblocks, and manage implementation of initiatives that span across teams. • Support designers through mentorship, provide regular design feedback Collaboration & Culture • Effectively lead workshops between teams (engineering, product, operations) to accurately resolve requirements and influence roadmaps in a way that achieves broader objectives of the platform • Work with product and engineering counterparts to define and scope problems. • Routinely connect with stakeholders to align on goals and approach. • Consistently leverage the design team for feedback and involvement where appropriate. • A reliable resource to other team members on the goals of the platform strategy, key use cases and workflows. Able to describe use cases in tandem with the business objectives. About you • Approximately 8+ years of experience in fast-paced creative environments • You are proactive and a natural collaborator — capable of bringing together and aligning various department leaders • You have a growth mindset and are comfortable continuing to learn and improve • You are comfortable in ambiguity and leaning on subject matter experts in complex, technical domains. • You have a preference for progress over perfection. • You possess exceptional product design skills and the ability to implement strategic and conceptual thinking as well. • You have experience designing for highly technical users, that are used to conducting their work via various coding tools and ad hoc workflows, such as data scientists, machine learning engineers, bioinformaticians, translational researchers • You have a compelling portfolio of work that demonstrates high-quality design. • Have ample experience presenting to senior leadership. • You focus relentlessly on customers’ needs and wants. • Experience with Figma, Cursor and other comparable tools. • Industry experience is ideal, but not required, as well as an understanding of the challenges that surround healthcare data #LI-Hybrid #LI-HR1 CHI - $125,000 - $175,000 The expected salary range above is applicable if the role is performed from Illinois and may vary for other locations (California, Colorado, New York). Actual salary may vary based on qualifications and experience. Tempus offers a full range of benefits, which may include incentive compensation, restricted stock units, medical and other benefits depending on the position. We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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