Research Lead: Clinical & User Insights

Medium; Melbourne (FL); On-site; USD 60,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

401k with matching

20 days off per year

5 all-team holidays

Floating holidays

Job summary

Kalogon is seeking a Research Lead to architect and oversee our research ecosystem, blending clinical validation with user testing and consumer surveys to deepen insights. You will ensure methodological rigor and translate findings into tangible product advancements while guiding a range of studies from quick usability tests to large-scale validations.

This role combines strategic vision with hands-on execution, requiring collaboration with sales, product, and marketing, plus IRB protocol

Qualifications

• Master's degree or higher in rehabilitation science, biomedical engineering, clinical research, life sciences, or related field.
• Hands-on experience with a wide variety of user research methodologies and quick-turn usability testing.
• Ability to write effective research plans, protocols, interview guides and the like.
• Great understanding of statistics or qualitative insights and what is meaningful in research results.
• Experience managing clinical research projects with minimal supervision.
• Ability to navigate IRB processes efficiently.
• Experience coordinating studies with external collaborators.

Responsibilities

• Use a variety of research modalities to answer key questions about seating from comfort surveys to blood flow analysis and everything in-between
• Balance long-horizon clinical validation with short-term product development needs
• Conduct user research, beta testing, and claims research
• Socialize research findings and ensure team members can self‑support by creating tools to access your research
• Write, field, and analyze consumer surveys on seating, sitting, or any topic as discussed with the team
• Help drive the business by ideating, testing, and validating unique claims that can be published or shared publicly
• Support partner by gathering key stakeholder and end user feedback, synthesizing this and sharing insights with the team
• Work with sales, product, and marketing for post‑market surveillance activities
• Identify and establish relationships with potential research partners including clinics, universities, and rehabilitation centers
• Handle all research activities from project design through recruitment to final analysis
• Run beta testing programs
• Develop and execute IRB protocols
• Manage project timelines and resource needs within startup constraints
• Translate technical findings into actionable insights for both clinical and non‑clinical folks
• Stay abreast of key research happening in seating and sitting, ensuring the team is aware and taking this research into their work

Skills

User research methods

IRB navigation

Study coordination

Data analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Time management

Regulatory knowledge

Travel willingness

Education

Master's degree or higher in rehabilitation science, biomedical engineering, clinical research, life sciences, or related field

Tools

IRB protocols

Job description

Kalogon is seeking a Research Lead to architect and oversee our research ecosystem, blending clinical validation with user testing and consumer surveys to deepen insights. You will ensure methodological rigor and translate findings into tangible product advancements while guiding a range of studies from quick usability tests to large-scale validations.

This role combines strategic vision with hands-on execution, requiring collaboration with sales, product, and marketing, plus IRB protocol