Director of Product Design

Beacon Biosignals•Boston, MA

3d•$200,000 - $215,000•Remote

About The Position

Beacon Biosignals is seeking a Director of Product Design to lead and grow its shared Product Design function, which serves the full business. The design scope includes EEG headbands and other devices, mobile apps used by participants and patients at home, web applications for clinical teams and trial sponsors, printed materials for patients and site staff, and internal business processes across logistics, support, and clinical operations. The role leads a team of three senior product designers, sets the vision for how design works at Beacon, and plans the function’s growth as the company scales. It is expected to remain close to the craft through hands-on modeling of best practices alongside the team. The position reports to Beacon’s VP of Platform. The Director will lead and coach the design team, shape design strategy and prioritization across hardware, mobile, web, print, and business-process experiences, and establish processes, standards, and shared systems that support quality and scale. The role builds cross-functional partnerships, develops research practices and a deep understanding of users and internal operations, and ensures rigorous, well-documented design contributions to regulated products in partnership with Quality and Regulatory. It also owns the function’s headcount plan, budget, and vendor relationships. Beacon supports asynchronous remote work and has office hubs in Boston, New York City, and Paris. Candidates based in Boston or the surrounding area are preferred. The base salary range is $200,000–$215,000, depending on experience, skills, and qualifications. Total compensation also includes equity, PTO, and other benefits. Beacon values curiosity, simplicity, composability, a self-service mindset, empathy, and diversity.

Requirements

10 or more years of product design experience, including at least 4 years managing and developing designers.
Experience building or substantially maturing a design function.
A portfolio spanning hardware and software experiences, including physical devices, mobile apps, data-heavy web applications, and related printed materials.
Experience or familiarity with medical devices, clinical diagnostics, real-world data, pharma/biotech, or related fields.
Experience working in a regulated industry and navigating iterative design alongside strict design controls.
Ability to coach senior individual contributors and provide feedback that experienced designers respect and act on.
Ability to remain hands-on when useful while delegating appropriately.
Experience designing service and business-process experiences and improving organizational operations.
Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, including the ability to align partners on decisions, tradeoffs, and evolving plans in regulated or quality-sensitive environments.
Bias toward simplicity and ability to apply structure at the appropriate time.
Comfort and demonstrated success working in a highly asynchronous remote environment.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with usability engineering and human-factors practice, such as IEC 62366 or FDA human-factors guidance.

Responsibilities

Lead and coach three senior product designers, supporting their craft, impact, and career development.
Create and execute a vision for product design at Beacon and a plan for growing the function with the business.
Operate as a player-coach, taking on design work where appropriate and modeling desired practices.
Prioritize design work across devices, mobile, web, print, and business processes, balancing the needs of the business and the team’s capacity.
Partner with Device Engineering, Platform, Clinical Operations, Logistics, Support, and Quality, bringing design into decisions early.
Establish processes, standards, a coherent design language, reusable patterns, and design reviews that support quality without slowing delivery.
Ensure design work for regulated products is rigorous and well documented, partnering with Quality and Regulatory on usability and human-factors work for cleared devices.
Own the design function’s headcount plan, budget, and vendor relationships, and make the case for investment in design.
Develop and maintain a deep understanding of patients, clinical staff, healthcare providers, trial site teams, and sponsors, and build the research practice to support that understanding.
Understand Beacon’s internal operations and ensure design serves internal teams, including device provisioning, logistics, support, and scientific services.
Anticipate and address accumulating design debt, inconsistency, and unowned experience problems.