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# Director of Product Design at Beacon Biosignals

- **Company:** Beacon Biosignals
- **Location:** Boston, MA
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-25
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/beaconbiosignals/jobs/4465824009

## Job description

Beacon Biosignals is transforming precision medicine for the brain, from clinical development to clinical care. For Life Sciences partners, we offer the leading at-home EEG platform for clinical development of novel therapeutics for neurological, psychiatric, and sleep disorders. Our Diagnostics business is building the most comprehensive at-home platform for precision diagnostics, combining EEG and cardiopulmonary signals to deliver reimbursable assessments for sleep and central nervous system disorders. Together, we're changing the way patients are diagnosed and treated for any disorder that affects brain physiology.

Beacon Biosignals is seeking a Director of Product Design to lead and grow our Product Design function. Product Design at Beacon is a shared function that serves the entire business: the hardware experience of our EEG headbands and other devices, the mobile apps that participants and patients use at home, the web applications that clinical teams and trial sponsors rely on, the printed materials that guide patients and site staff, and the design of internal business processes across logistics, support, and clinical operations. In this role you'll lead a team of three senior product designers, set the vision for how design works at Beacon, and plan the function's growth as the company scales. We expect this role to stay close to the craft. You'll model best practices directly alongside the team, not just direct it from above. This role reports directly to Beacon's VP of Platform.

Beacon's robust asynchronous work practices ensure a first-class remote work experience, but we also have in-person office hubs located in Boston, New York City, and Paris. For this position, candidates based in the Boston or surrounding area are preferred

What success looks like:

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.

What you will bring:

- 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.

## About Beacon Biosignals

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Beacon Biosignals is an AI-driven precision medicine platform that collects, integrates, and analyzes EEG data to accelerate drug development and power at-home sleep diagnostics.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B – over $97 M raised as of April 2026)
- **Headquarters**: Boston, Massachusetts, USA (with additional offices in Paris, New York, Cleveland, and remote)
- **Founded**: Not publicly available
- **Founders**: Jacob Donoghue, MD, PhD (CTO & Co‑Founder); additional co‑founders not fully disclosed in available sources.

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Neuroscience / Digital Health / AI‑powered diagnostics and clinical‑trial services.
- **Target customers**: Biopharmaceutical companies (B2B) for clinical‑trial support; sleep physicians, neurologists, and primary‑care providers for at‑home sleep testing (B2B diagnostics).
- **Mission**: “To unlock the power of brain data to transform how we diagnose, treat, and understand neurological and psychiatric conditions.”

## Products & Services
- **Waveband EEG Headband**: FDA 510(k)‑cleared, wireless headband (formerly Dreem 3S) that collects clinical‑grade sleep‑staging data. Designed for at‑home use in both clinical trials and clinical practice. [beacon.bio/products-services](https://beacon.bio/products-services)
- **Beacon Datastore**: Cloud‑based storage and analysis platform for biosignal data. Supports version‑controlled, reproducible analyses and integrates with the rest of Beacon’s products. [beacon.bio/products-services](https://beacon.bio/products-services)
- **Clinical Study Operations**: End‑to‑end support for biopharma trials, including device deployment, site training, compliance monitoring, and data‑quality review. [beacon.bio/products-services](https://beacon.bio/products-services)
- **Scientific Services**: Expert analysis and interpretation of EEG data – spanning biomarker discovery, trial‑design advice, translational insights, and comprehensive reporting. [beacon.bio/products-services](https://beacon.bio/products-services)
- **Beacon HQ**: Centralized portal for trial management, dataset exploration, cohort filtering, and site‑performance tracking. [beacon.bio/products-services](https://beacon.bio/products-services)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total funding > $97 M (Series B upsized, announced April 6, 2026). The platform has analyzed **2 M+ hours of EEG** and completed **500 K+ home sleep tests** across **40+ clinical trials**. [beacon.bio](https://beacon.bio/)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Investors not named in available sources; **Harmony Biosciences** announced as a partner (Dec 2025). [beacon.bio](https://beacon.bio/)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Selected as one of **Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies of 2026**. [beacon.bio](https://beacon.bio/)
  - Series B upsized to over $97 M in April 2026.
  - Expanding at‑home sleep testing (500 K+ tests completed) and building the world’s largest clinically validated neurophysiology dataset.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Largest clinically validated neurophysiology dataset** (2 M+ hours of analyzed EEG), providing depth and scale for biomarker discovery and AI model training.
- **End‑to‑end platform** covering the full drug‑development lifecycle – from an FDA‑cleared wearable device to cloud storage, analytics, and clinical‑trial services.
- **AI‑powered algorithms** for sleep staging, epileptiform characterization, and standardized spectral analysis, cleared under FDA 510(k).
- **Full regulatory and quality infrastructure** (SOC 2 Type II, US DPF/GDPR compliant, GCP‑backed security) that reduces risk for pharma partners.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling at‑home diagnostics**: Increasing the reach of the Waveband headband and home sleep testing services to neurologists, sleep physicians, and primary‑care settings.
- **Deepening biopharma partnerships**: Expanding clinical‑trial support from Phase 1 through Phase 4 and into post‑market studies.
- **Building the largest neurodiagnostic dataset**: Continuing to grow the Beacon Datastore to enable more precise, personalized therapies for brain‑health conditions.
- **Advancing AI‑driven neurotechnology**: Leveraging machine learning to discover novel biomarkers and develop objective clinical endpoints (e.g., hypersomnia partnership with Harmony Biosciences).

## Why Work Here
- **Mission‑driven culture**: “We’re working to change how brain health is measured, understood, and treated.” Employees see direct impact on getting treatments to patients faster. [beacon.bio/careers](https://beacon.bio/careers)
- **Flexible work**: Headquarters in Boston (with offices in Paris, New York, and Cleveland) and a globally distributed team; many roles are remote‑eligible. [beacon.bio/careers](https://beacon.bio/careers)
- **Values**: “Culture is a Team Sport,” “Commitment to Excellence,” and “We protect time” – emphasizing collaboration, rigor, and work‑life balance. [beacon.bio/careers](https://beacon.bio/careers)
- **Growth opportunities**: 19 open positions (as of search date) across Analytics & ML, Clinical Diagnostics, Platform Engineering, Life Sciences, Product & Design, Hardware Engineering, and more. [Greenhouse job board](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/beaconbiosignals)
- **Team composition**: A mix of neuroscientists, machine‑learning engineers, clinicians, and biopharma veterans – creating a rich, interdisciplinary environment.

## Sources
1. [beacon.bio – Homepage](https://beacon.bio/)
2. [beacon.bio – About](https://beacon.bio/about)
3. [beacon.bio – Products & Services](https://beacon.bio/products-services)
4. [beacon.bio – Careers](https://beacon.bio/careers)
5. [Greenhouse – Beacon Biosignals Job Board](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/beaconbiosignals)

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