Director, Product Design

Requirements

• What you bring
• You've spent seven or more years in product design, with senior ownership of user journeys on complex, data-heavy or scientific software.
• You've built or led at least one design system that engineering genuinely adopted, and you know what it takes to keep one alive.
• You've managed designers formally, not just mentored them, and the people you've managed got better and would work for you again.
• You're comfortable having your biggest impact through a system other people build with, not only through screens you designed yourself.
• You've chosen fast, ambiguous environments before, and you're looking for another one.
• You already use AI tools to design, prototype and produce working software (we work with Claude, from design exploration through design-to-code), and you have well-formed opinions about where these tools help and where they mislead.
• You've designed AI-powered product experiences, or you have a clear point of view on trust, transparency and human oversight in AI interfaces.
• You're an expert in Figma, including variables and design-to-code workflows such as Code Connect.
• You know enough front-end to collaborate credibly with engineers on components and constraints. You don't need to write production code, but you do need to understand how your designs become it.
• You can operate as the most senior design voice in the company: comfortable with ambiguity, generous as a coach, and clear whether you're talking to executives, engineers or scientists.
• Nice to have: experience with genomics, multi-omics, imaging, clinical or other life sciences data products, or another regulated domain; products delivered across multiple environments or installations; familiarity with component documentation tools like Storybook; experience establishing design practice in an engineering-led organization.
• Why this position
• You get real authority over a core product and the design function itself, from day one, with a direct line to the Chief Strategy and Product Officer. You join a company that works the way it's asking you to work: AI-assisted, fast and hands-on. The work ends in research results and patient outcomes, which makes the pace worth it. And you won't inherit a design practice here; you'll build the one everyone after you inherits.