Director of Product Design

The role

You will lead and grow the Product Design function, managing a team of three senior designers. You will set the design vision and execute design work across hardware, mobile apps, web applications, print, and internal business processes.

What you will do

• Lead and coach a team of three senior product designers
• Craft, iterate, and execute on a vision for product design at Beacon
• Operate as a player-coach by taking on design work directly
• Own prioritization across device, mobile, web, print, and business process
• Build cross-functional connections with engineering, clinical, and quality teams
• Establish processes, standards, and shared design systems
• Ensure design contribution to regulated products is rigorous and well-documented
• Own the headcount plan, budget, and vendor relationships
• Build a research practice to understand patients, clinical staff, and sponsors
• Anticipate and address design debt and inconsistency

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of product design experience
• 4+ years managing and developing designers
• Experience building or substantially maturing a design function
• A portfolio that spans both hardware and software experiences
• Experience and familiarity working in the medical device space, clinical diagnostics, real-world-data, pharma/biotech or other related fields
• Experience working in a regulated industry
• Experience designing service and business process experiences
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• Demonstrated success working in a highly asynchronous remote work environment

Nice to have

• Familiarity with usability engineering and human factors practice (e.g. IEC 62366, FDA human factors guidance)

Benefits

• equity
• PTO
• other benefits

About the company

Beacon Biosignals is transforming precision medicine for the brain, from clinical development to clinical care. They offer an at-home EEG platform for clinical development and are building a platform for precision diagnostics.