Director of Product Design

About Beacon Biosignals Beacon's AI platform for brain data enables and accelerates new treatments that transform the lives of patients with neurological and psychiatric disease. Through FDA-cleared EEG wearables, novel machine learning algorithms, enormous datasets, and advances in software engineering, we are changing the way patients are treated for disorders of the brain. Want to join the team? We’re hiring—check out the careers page on our website for more. Please be advised that Beacon Biosignals does not ask for personal information outside of our official hiring process. If a role is not listed on our careers page, it is not an active job opening. We will never ask candidates to send money to supplement company equipment, and all official emails from our team will come from the @beacon.bio domain, never text messages or Teams messages.

Beacon Biosignals

Our mission is to improve human health by enabling rapid, targeted interventions through advanced brain analytics.

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beacon.bio

51-200 employees

Artificial Intelligence

Boston, MA

2019

Privately Held

17k LinkedIn followers

Raised $127M

• As a successful Director of Product Design at Beacon, you'll
• 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.

• 10+ years of product design experience, including 4+ years managing and developing designers.
• Experience building or substantially maturing a design function. You know what the first eighteen months of that work actually look like.
• 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 together.
• You have experience and familiarity working in the medical device space, clinical diagnostics, real-world-data, pharma/biotech or other related fields.
• You'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 plus.
• You're genuinely energized by coaching senior individual contributors. You can give feedback that a strong, experienced designer will respect and act on.
• You'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 it.
• Experience designing service and business process experiences, not just product interfaces. You've improved how an organization operates, not only what it ships.
• You 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 environments.
• You demonstrate a bias towards simplicity, avoid misallocating complexity, and try to impose structure at the right time - not too early or too late.
• You're comfortable working in a highly asynchronous remote work environment, and have demonstrated success doing so in the past.
• The base salary range for this role is $200,000 - $215,000, depending on past experience, specific skills, and qualifications. The base salary is one component of the total compensation package, which includes equity, PTO, and other benefits.
• At Beacon, we've found that cultural and scientific impact is driven most by those that lead by example. As such, we're always seeking new contributors whose work demonstrates an avid curiosity, a bias towards simplicity, an eye for composability, a self-service mindset, and - most of all - a deep empathy towards colleagues, stakeholders, users, and patients. We believe a diverse team builds more robust systems and achieves higher impact.

• Equity
• Paid Time Off