Chief Design Officer

Shape the Future of Human Connection

Healari is building the antidote to lonely doom-scrolling and vanity metrics : A social network designed for genuine emotional wellness and real human connection. We’re an early-stage, pre-seed startup; currently part of GünderAcademy, a leading Nordic accelerator powered by SR-Bank.

As our first design hire and a core founding team member, you’ll have full product ownership from day one. You’ll collaborate closely with our CEO, gaining both the freedom to work autonomously and the support of a tightly aligned creative partner. Your input will directly shape the direction of the Healari product experience, visual identity, and brand voice.

What You’ll Own

• Design Leadership : Define and evolve our brand identity, design systems, and creative direction. Create the product design from user flows and wireframes to polished UI and seamless interactions. Make Healari ready for MVP development, and continue evolving the product toward Beta and final launch.
• Product Strategy : Make key decisions alongside the CEO to align user needs, emotional impact, and business goals. Help shape our product roadmap and contribute to early product strategy.
• User Advocacy : Lead user research, rapid prototyping and testing to deeply understand our community, ensuring we build something people truly love and feel better after using.
• Culture & Team Building : Join as a founding team member and have outsized influence on the product, culture, and trajectory of a company from early stage. Set the foundation to lead your own future design team as we scale.

Who We Think You Are

Compensation

This is a founding-team role, compensated through equity until the successful close of our first seed round. We are committed to fair and generous compensation, so the candidate will receive a significant equity grant of 5%, with a standard cliff and vesting schedule. Upon successful funding, this role will transition to a paid position.

Ready to create with meaning?

If you believe technology should deepen human connection, not distract from it; we’d love to hear from you.

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