Remote Director, User Research and Design

Summary

Join a team of ambitious Dragons at Komodo Health as the Director of User Research & Design to lead and inspire product design teams, drive business impact, and up-level all things design.

Requirements

• Experience leading a generalist design and research team (more than 5 designers/researchers)
• You’re an expert in people development and up-leveling design craft – you have what it takes to grow and empower an incredible design team
• Demonstrated a history of balancing business requirements, technological capabilities, and user insights to deliver great products
• Experience building and scaling research functions, including setting strategy and developing operational structures
• Mastery of hiring the right skillset to achieve our goals as a team
• Comfort collaborating with and being an active design advocate to leadership and company wide
• Ability to apply a strong level of design thinking, user centricity and research to our features and product portfolio

Responsibilities

• Supporting our design & user research team through regular check ins, career development discussions, and team meetings
• Sourcing, interviewing, and onboarding new design and research team members
• Regularly engaging with cross-functional leaders to facilitate brainstorming and alignment through strategies like workshops and ideation sessions
• Presenting work to, collaborating with, and influencing product managers, engineers, research, exec team, and other stakeholders
• Managing and iterating upon our team processes and career development paths

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building responsive web-based products, enterprise SaaS platforms in the healthcare industry
• Wealth of knowledge around interaction design principles, up to date trends, and usability heuristics

Benefits

• Competitive total rewards package including medical, dental and vision coverage along with a broad range of supplemental benefits
• 401k Retirement Plan
• Prepaid legal assistance
• Paid time off for vacation, sickness, holiday, and bereavement
• 100% company-paid life insurance
• Long-term disability insurance