--- title: 'Director, Design at Brooklyn Health' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/director-design-brooklyn-health-hq-tt8axn8bgvfw' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-17' --- # Director, Design at Brooklyn Health - **Company:** Brooklyn Health - **Location:** HQ - **Compensation:** $130k–$170k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-09-16 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-17 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/brooklyn-health/01822825-8d2c-45ee-b699-ed539b897bb5 ## Job description ## About Brooklyn Health Brooklyn Health is helping develop novel treatments for mental health disorders by improving how clinical research is done. We develop a platform for clinical trials that improves the accuracy, sensitivity, and objectivity with which neurological and psychiatric disorders are measured. Better measurement drives success in clinical trials, helping bring precise and effective therapies to patients faster. Brooklyn Health is backed by leading healthcare and technology investors including HealthX Ventures, Metrodora Ventures, Story Ventures, RiverPark Ventures, Laconia Capital, Everywhere Ventures, and others. For more information, visit [brooklyn.health](http://brooklyn.health). ## Benefits and perks We offer comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, a monthly health stipend, and a 401(k) plan. Employees enjoy flexible PTO, federal holidays, and twice-a-year company-wide shutdowns—including a week-long summer break and a two-week winter break. ## About the role The Design team works alongside Product, Engineering, and Growth to design, iterate, and market our core platform. As we mature, we are looking for a Director of Design to scale our design operations, implement AI into our core design processes, and lead our growing team of full-time designers. In addition to core product design, this role oversees brand identity, marketing assets, and creative contractor relationships. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced designer to step in and own our design function end-to-end. This is an in-person role, based in our offices in NoHo. ## Responsibilities - Work closely with Product and Engineering directors to define strategy, provide scalable solutions, and ensure technical feasibility for new features. - Structure and develop new design processes spanning user research, prototyping, product testing, and AI tool adoption. - Lead UX/UI research to develop a deep understanding of users and stakeholders, translating product requirements and sales ideas into solutions that truly align with user needs. - Balance hands-on, high-fidelity design work with managing that work effectively across your team, ensuring deadlines are met across research, exploration, and implementation phases. - Maintain and scale our design system to ensure UI consistency across web and tablet. - Oversee brand identity—including the company website, sales materials, and product literature—and manage contract designers and illustrators working on creative assets. ## Requirements - 5+ years of product design experience working closely with product and engineering to develop complex multi-user workflows - Experience with AI-driven design processes and GitHub; proficiency with Figma, and developer-aligned UI libraries like PrimeVue - Experience managing, mentoring, or leading product designers and illustrators - Hands-on experience conducting and analyzing user research, usability testing, and workflow mapping - Proven track record of shipping data-heavy SaaS products across web, tablet, and mobile platforms - Demonstrated experience building, maintaining, or scaling design systems and strong brand identity across an organization and its products Preferences - Previous experience building healthcare or clinical research products - Familiarity with healthcare compliance, accessibility, and data privacy standards (e.g., HIPAA, GDPR) - Experience with creative direction, brand design, marketing, website design - Basic knowledge of Adobe Illustrator or vector illustration tools - Experience creating product demo videos, motion graphics, or light 2D animation ## About Brooklyn Health ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Brooklyn Health develops AI-powered digital health measurement tools and platforms to improve the accuracy and standardization of mental health assessments in clinical trials and beyond. - **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage) - **Headquarters**: Brooklyn, New York, United States - **Founded**: 2023 - **Founders**: Anzar Abbas, Ph.D. ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Digital health / Neuroscience / Clinical trial technology (eCOA) - **Target customers**: B2B – primarily pharmaceutical companies conducting CNS clinical trials; also academic research institutions and, in the future, behavioral health delivery organizations. - **Mission or purpose**: “Solve the measurement problem in mental health” – modernizing how mental health outcomes are quantified to reduce placebo response and improve drug development success rates. ## Products & Services - **[Willis (eCOA Platform)](https://brooklyn.health)**: An electronic clinical outcome assessment solution that automates clinical interview scoring and provides AI-powered real-time quality review. Includes transcription, scoring, data analytics, and secure cloud infrastructure for pharma sponsors and clinical sites. - **[OpenWillis](https://brooklyn.health)**: An open-source Python library for digital phenotyping that enables researchers to quantify facial emotions, voice/speech characteristics, motor function, and other behavioral indicators. Serves as the foundation for Brooklyn’s commercial tools. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (seed stage, $6.5M raised) - **Key Metric**: Total funding of $6.5M in one Seed round (May 27, 2025) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: - Lead investor: HealthX Ventures - Other investors: Metrodora Ventures, Story Ventures, RiverPark Ventures, Laconia Capital, Everywhere Ventures, Hypothesis Studio, Blue Falcon Capital - Pharma partnerships: Bristol Myers Squibb, Boehringer Ingelheim - Research collaborations: Harvard University, Yale University, UCLA, Columbia University - **Growth Signals**: - Employee count grew to 22 as of April 2026 (up from founding in 2023) - Demonstrated 34% improvement in drug/placebo separation effect size in a psychiatry study for a pharma customer - Expanding commercial deployments with pharmaceutical companies - Published open-source library (OpenWillis) to drive community adoption ## Competitive Advantages - **Proprietary AI + open-source foundation**: Combines a freely available digital phenotyping toolkit (OpenWillis) with a commercial eCOA platform, creating a broad research base while monetizing through enterprise pharma contracts. - **Clinical validation with top pharma**: Partnerships with Bristol Myers Squibb and Boehringer Ingelheim provide scientific credibility and real-world validation. - **Directly addresses a multi-billion-dollar pain point**: CNS trial failure due to poor endpoint quality is a known industry problem – Brooklyn’s technology targets that exactly. - **First-mover in AI-powered clinical interview quality assurance**: Moves subjective manual reviews to objective, scalable software. ## Strategic Focus - **Short-term**: Expand Willis capabilities and accelerate commercial deployments with pharmaceutical companies for CNS clinical trials. - **Long-term**: Extend digital phenotyping and outcome measurement into in-clinic psychiatric care and virtual mental health platforms, beyond drug development. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: The company name celebrates the “employees in the weeds” (Brooklyn Heights + homage to employees). Founder Anzar Abbas emphasizes a team-first, mission-driven environment. - **Engineering & science focus**: Work involves cutting-edge AI, digital phenotyping, open-source software (Python), and cloud architecture – ideal for engineers, data scientists, and neuroscientists. - **Impact**: Opportunity to directly improve mental health treatment by reducing trial failures and enabling more targeted therapies. - **Remote/hybrid policy**: Not explicitly stated in available sources; likely flexible or Brooklyn-based given the HQ. - **Notable perks**: Not detailed, but early-stage startup environment offers significant ownership and growth potential. ## Sources 1. [tracxn.com](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/brooklynhealth/__ls8qR_GzHBFPfPql5yeMq5Jk332tbyiCSe0oAHnpCHU) – Company profile, funding, employee count 2. [fiercehealthcare.com](https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/ai-and-machine-learning/how-brooklyn-health-aims-modernize-mental-health-assessment-clinical-trials) – Detailed article on technology, partnerships, and seed round 3. [brooklyn.health](https://www.brooklyn.health/) – Official website (product info, mission) 4. 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