Director of Product Design — Hardware & Software

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 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.