Director of Product Design

Beacon Biosignals; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Beacon Biosignals seeks a Director of Product Design to lead and grow its design function across hardware, mobile apps, web applications, patient materials, and internal processes. You will mentor three senior designers, set the design vision, and drive growth as the company scales.

You will stay close to craft, modeling best practices and guiding the team by example. You will own prioritization, collaborate across departments, and establish scalable design systems and regulations alignment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of product design experience, including 4+ years managing and developing designers.
• Experience designing service and business process experiences, not just product interfaces.
• Bias towards simplicity and ability to impose structure at the right time.
• Experience in the medical device space, clinical diagnostics, real‑world data, pharma/biotech or related fields.
• Strong coaching and mentorship of senior individual contributors.
• Experience navigating regulated environments with usability engineering/human factors (IEC 62366, FDA guidance) is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coach a team of three senior product designers, helping each grow their craft and career path.
• Craft, iterate, and execute a vision for product design at Beacon and translate it into a growth plan for the function.
• Operate as a player-coach, doing hands-on design when needed to set the standard and raise the bar.
• Own prioritization across hardware, mobile, web, print, and internal processes to avoid bottlenecks.
• Build cross-functional connections with engineering, platform, clinical ops, logistics, support, and quality.

Skills

Product design

People management

Service design

Regulated industry

Coaching seniors

Hands-on design

Stakeholder mgmt

Remote work

Design org building

Job description

• Beacon Biosignals is seeking a Director of Product Design to lead and grow our Product Design function


• Product Design at Beacon is a shared function that serves the entire business: the hardware experience of our EEG headbands and other devices, the mobile apps that participants and patients use at home, the web applications that clinical teams and trial sponsors rely on, the printed materials that guide patients and site staff, and the design of internal business processes across logistics, support, and clinical operations


• In this role you’ll lead a team of three senior product designers, set the vision for how design works at Beacon, and plan the function’s growth as the company scales


• We expect this role to stay close to the craft. You’ll model best practices directly alongside the team, not just direct it from above


• This role reports directly to Beacon’s VP of Platform


• Lead and coach a team of three senior product designers, helping each of them grow their craft, expand their impact, and build a clear path forward in their careers


• Craft, iterate, and execute on a vision for what product design should be at Beacon, and translate that vision into a concrete plan for how the function grows alongside the business


• Operate as a player-coach, particularly in your first year: taking on design work yourself where it sets the standard, demonstrating the practices you want to see, and raising the bar by example rather than by directive


• Own prioritization across the full breadth of Beacon’s design surface, from device and mobile to web, print, and business process, making the tradeoffs that determine where a small, senior team spends its time and ensuring no single designer becomes a bottleneck for the company


• Build the cross-functional connections that design depends on, partnering closely with Device Engineering, Platform, Clinical Operations, Logistics, Support, and Quality to bring design into decisions early rather than at the end


• Establish the processes, standards, and shared systems that let design scale: a coherent design language across hardware and software, reusable patterns, and design reviews that improve quality without slowing delivery


• Ensure design’s contribution to Beacon’s regulated products is rigorous and well-documented, partnering with Quality and Regulatory on usability and human factors work for our cleared devices


• Own the headcount plan, budget, and vendor relationships for the function, and make the case for investment in design with the same rigor you’d bring to a design problem


• Develop a deep understanding of everyone Beacon serves: patients using our devices unsupervised at home, the clinical staff and healthcare providers who care for them, the site teams running trials, and the sponsors who rely on the insights we deliver. Build the research practice that keeps that understanding current


• Develop an equally deep understanding of how Beacon itself operates, so that design serves our internal teams as well as our external users, from device provisioning and logistics through support and scientific services


• See around corners: anticipate where design debt, inconsistency, or unowned experience problems are accumulating, and address them before they become urgent

A portfolio that spans both hardware and software experiences. You’re comfortable moving between a physical device, a mobile app, a data-heavy web application, and the printed material that ties them together10+ years of product design experience, including 4+ years managing and developing designersExperience designing service and business process experiences, not just product interfaces. You’ve improved how an organization operates, not only what it shipsYou demonstrate a bias towards simplicity, avoid misallocating complexity, and try to impose structure at the right time - not too early or too lateYou have experience and familiarity working in the medical device space, clinical diagnostics, real-world-data, pharma/biotech or other related fieldsYou’re genuinely energized by coaching senior individual contributors. You can give feedback that a strong, experienced designer will respect and act onYou’ve worked in a regulated industry before, and have successfully navigated the tension between fast-paced iterative design and strict design controls. Familiarity with usability engineering and human factors practice (e.g. IEC 62366, FDA human factors guidance) is a strong plusYou bring strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to align partners around decisions, tradeoffs, and evolving plans, including in regulated or quality-sensitive environmentsYou’re comfortable being hands-on without defaulting to it. You know the difference between modeling the work and doing the work because it’s easier than delegating itYou’re comfortable working in a highly asynchronous remote work environment, and have demonstrated success doing so in the pastExperience building or substantially maturing a design function. You know what the first eighteen months of that work actually look like