Heather Hasson

Overview

Heather Hasson is the co-founder and board chair of FIGS. In FIGS: Trina Spear and Heather Hasson. The $2.5 Billion Scrubs Brand That Investors Said Would Never Work, she is presented as the product-led founder who connected fashion experience, charitable uniform work in Kenya, and direct observation of clinicians to the opportunity to redesign medical scrubs.

Current Profile

Heather’s profile centers on close user observation and hands-on product development. She moved from tailoring a friend’s scrubs and selling early batches outside emergency rooms to working directly with factories, dye houses, and yarn mills. Her concept of Technical Comfort gave the company a design language that joined clinical function with comfort, fit, and dignity.

Key Characteristics

• She approaches product creation through observation, tailoring, material development, and repeated contact with users.
• She linked the commercial opportunity to respect for healthcare workers rather than treating scrubs as a purely fashion-led category.
• She initially preferred founding alone but accepted a partnership when Trina Spear’s operating and financial skills proved complementary.
• She remained closely involved in manufacturing and unconventional early styles that later became strong sellers.
• She stepped down as co-CEO in 2022 and continued as FIGS’s board chair.

Evidence

• Problem discovery: FIGS: Trina Spear and Heather Hasson. The $2.5 Billion Scrubs Brand That Investors Said Would Never Work traces Heather’s insight through fashion work, Kenya, clinic observation, scrub-store visits, and clinician tailoring requests.
• Direct validation: FIGS: Trina Spear and Heather Hasson. The $2.5 Billion Scrubs Brand That Investors Said Would Never Work says she sourced an initial run and sold it from her car outside emergency rooms.
• Product leadership: FIGS: Trina Spear and Heather Hasson. The $2.5 Billion Scrubs Brand That Investors Said Would Never Work describes her work with factories and mills on fabric, fit, colors, layering garments, and gender-specific styles.
• Partnership judgment: FIGS: Trina Spear and Heather Hasson. The $2.5 Billion Scrubs Brand That Investors Said Would Never Work says Heather changed her mind about adding a partner after seeing the founders’ complementary strengths.
• Role transition: FIGS: Trina Spear and Heather Hasson. The $2.5 Billion Scrubs Brand That Investors Said Would Never Work reports that she became board chair after leaving the co-CEO role in 2022.

Qualifications

The profile is based on a founder interview summarized rather than independently investigated. The source gives limited detail on decision conflicts between the founders, the reasons for Heather’s 2022 role change, or the contribution of later design and operating teams.

What Changed

• Added Heather Hasson as FIGS’s product-led co-founder and current board chair.
• Connected her user observation and material-development work to technical comfort in professional apparel.

Relationships

• FIGS - company she co-founded and now chairs.
• Trina Spear - co-founder whose financial and operating strengths complemented Heather’s product focus.
• Technical Comfort - product principle Heather articulated for redesigned scrubs.
• End-User-Purchased Workwear - market structure she first explored through direct clinician selling.
• Purpose Driven Business - her Kenya work and healthcare-worker framing connect mission to a sustainable company.