Director/Sr. Director, Product Design

About Cleerly

We’re Cleerly – a healthcare company that’s revolutionizing how heart disease is diagnosed, treated, and tracked. We were founded in 2017 by one of the world’s leading cardiologists and are a growing team of world-class engineering, operations, medical affairs, marketing, and sales leaders. We raised $223M in Series C funding in 2022 which has enabled rapid growth and continued support of our mission. In December 2024 we received an additional $106M in a Series C extension funding. Most of our teams work remotely and have access to our offices in Denver, Colorado, New, York, New York, Dallas, Texas, and Lisbon, Portugal with some roles requiring you to be on-site in a location. 

Cleerly has created a new standard of care for heart disease through value-based, AI-driven precision diagnostic solutions with the goal of helping prevent heart attacks. Our technology goes beyond traditional measures of heart disease by enabling comprehensive quantification and characterization of atherosclerosis, or plaque buildup, in each of the heart arteries. Cleerly’s solutions are supported by more than a decade of performing some of the world’s largest clinical trials to identify important findings beyond symptoms that increase a person’s risk of heart attacks. 

At Cleerly, we collaborate digitally and use a wide variety of systems. Our people use Google Workspace (GMail, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides), Slack, Confluence/Jira, and Zoom Video, prior experience in these areas is a plus. Role or department specific technology needs may vary and will be listed as requirements in the job description. 

While we are mostly a remote company, travel is required for some team meetings and cross function projects typically once per month or once per quarter, for some roles like sales or external facing roles travel could be up to 90% of the time.  

About The Opportunity

We are seeking a visionary and strategic Director or Sr. Director of Product Design to build, lead, and scale our product design and user research organization. The Director will be a key member of the technology leadership team, responsible for maturing product design as a core competency and strategic driver across the company. As the senior design leader, you will work closely with Product Management and Engineering teams to shape our product strategy. You will be responsible for delivering world-class, human-centered user experiences across our entire portfolio of AI-powered SaMD products. This role requires a leader who can thrive in a fast-paced startup environment, championing a culture of design excellence and ensuring our solutions meet the complex needs of clinicians and patients.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and own the overarching product design strategy for the entire Cleerly portfolio, ensuring a unified and cohesive user experience that aligns with clinical needs and achieves key business objectives.
• Build, mentor, and scale a world-class, multidisciplinary team of product designers and user researchers. Define the hiring strategy, career paths, and rituals that foster a culture of product excellence, craftsmanship, and collaboration.
• Drive a deep, evidence-based understanding of the end-to-end cardiovascular care pathway. Translate complex clinical workflows, user needs, and cardiological data into a clear design vision that results in a safe, effective, and intuitive product experience..
• Lead the Human Factors & Usability Engineering (HFE) process from end-to-end, ensuring that our design outputs are not only intuitive but also rigorously documented and validated to meet global regulatory standards for patient safety. Own and scale the design operations, including the Design System, to ensure quality and efficiency.
• Establish and lead a mature user research practice that delivers actionable insights to the entire organization. Build and evolve Cleerly’s user research repository into a centralized, strategic resource that informs product, design, and company-level decisions.
• Serve as the primary design leader and work with Product and Engineering teams and other key stakeholders. Present design vision, strategy, and solutions to the leadership team to ensure deep alignment with company goals.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• 15+ years of experience as a product designer, with at least 5+ years in a design leadership role, including experience managing senior design leads.
• A Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Product Design, Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field (or equivalent proven field experience).
• A compelling portfolio of UX work demonstrating your experience across the entire product development lifecycle, from user research and ideation to launch and iteration.
• Proven track record of building, scaling, and leading high-performing design teams in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
• Deep expertise in establishing and scaling design operations, including creating and implementing pattern libraries and design systems.
• A passion for and mastery of both qualitative and quantitative user research methods, with the ability to translate insights into innovative, user-centric solutions.
• Hands-on working knowledge of modern design and prototyping tools (e.g. Figma). As the leader of a growing team, you must be able to directly review work, mentor designers, and guide best practices.
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively with the engineering teams, product teams, and the leadership.

Preferred Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience as a product designer, with at least 8+ years in a design leadership role, including experience managing other managers or senior design leads.
• Significant experience in a leadership role within the regulated medical software (SaMD) or digital health industry.
• Deep familiarity with designing for complex clinical workflows, medical imaging, and expert users like cardiologists and radiologists.
• Working knowledge of relevant medical device standards and regulations (e.g., IEC 62304, ISO 14971, Human Factors/Usability Engineering).
• Experience designing products that meet high accessibility standards (e.g., WCAG 2.1).
• Required travel 20-30%.

TTC: $264,000 $330,000

*Total Target Compensation (TTC): Total Cash Compensation (including base pay, variable pay,
commission, bonuses, etc.). We hire employees anywhere within the United States and account
for geography when determining base salary.

Working at Cleerly takes HEART. Discover our Core Values:

• H: Humility- be a servant leader
• E: Excellence- deliver world-changing results
• A: Accountability- do what you say; expect the same from others
• R: Remarkable- inspire & innovate with impact
• T: Teamwork- together we win

Don’t meet 100 percent of the qualifications? Apply anyway and help us diversify our candidate pool and workforce. We value experience, whether gained formally or informally on the job or through other experiences. Job duties, activities and responsibilities are subject to change by our company.

OUR COMPANY IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER.  We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, protected veteran status, religion, physical or mental disability, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or regulation.

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