Welcome to the era of Velsera! Seven Bridges, Pierian & UgenTec have combined to become Velsera.
Velsera is the precision engine company. We empower researchers, scientists, and clinicians to drive precision R&D, expand access to, and more effectively leverage analytics at the point of care.
We unify technology-enabled solutions and scientific expertise to enable a continuous flow of knowledge across the global healthcare ecosystem. This interweaves diverse biomedical communities, allowing them to build upon each other’s success and accelerate medical breakthroughs that positively impact human health.
With our headquarters in Boston, MA, we are growing and expanding our team which located in 14 different countries!
Director, Product Design
Location: US remote or EU remote
As a Director, Product Design, you will support the product team to drive the product user experience strategy to create world-class products with superior quality user experience towards end users. You will create consistent design system across products that emphasizes brand recall as well as creates user delight and loyalty through user experience. This is a hands-on UI/UX role that interacts with our customers, gather insights from the market trends and drives end user centered design approach. You will use user interface, user research, and interaction design skills to shape the direction of our product experiences while leading and coaching a team of full stack UI/UX designers across product pods globally.
You are responsible for leading a team towards achieving strategic deliverables, designing & maintaining our UI/UX framework and to contribute through UI/UX to our Velsera roadmap across products. You and your team deliver UI/UX services in specific steps of the product management process. As a Director of Product Design you contribute, coach & support your team to deliver smart & strong UI/UX innovation with engineering & product management teams to make sure everything flows together in successful product releases that align with the business goals of the organization, this to deliver value to customers and to our company in a recurring fashion.
What will you do?
● You lead the team that defined comprehensive UI/UX philosophy of our overall product suite
● You are end-responsible for the UI/UX solutions we deliver towards our end-users
● You interact with product users and participate in market surveys to understand the user challenges and market needs.
● You come up with vision & action plans to build a world-class design team
● You relay valuable information on product strategy & corporate meetings to the product design team
● You point out operational and design issues and make sure we resolve them as soon as possible, this on a product, team & process level
● You lead the team from planning to the execution stage
● You collaborate efficiently with the People Ops Business Partner
● You incorporate efficient management techniques to track problems and take appropriate action within your design team
● You report on product design KPI’s, you track these KPI’s to guarantee healthy operations, and you make sure you come up with actions if needed to improve your strategic measures
● You participate in quarterly product planning
What do you bring to the table?
● >10 years of combined experience working in user experience and design, product management, and/or software design, ideally some duration in precision medicine and in agile environment.
● >2-3 years of leadership experience coaching, recruiting, hiring, and growing a team
● You have excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate design concepts to diverse audiences
● You have proficiency in design tools such as (e.g., Sketch, Figma, Adobe XD) and user experience frameworks
● You have experience working with global teams
● You understand the complex space we are operating in
● You can handle end-responsibility on a team & output level
What do we offer?
Velsera stands for a stimulating atmosphere where you can grow your capabilities in an open company culture. We want you to do the work you feel great at, or that you would like to become great at. You’ll work for a mission driven organization that is making a true difference in the scientific and healthcare space.
Next to that, we offer competitive salaries including:
● A full-suite of industry leading benefits (list by location)
● Remote work flexibility
If you feel like this could be the next big thing for you, make sure you’re not going to miss out and have a chat with us!
Competencies Managing
The ability to manage and take charge of employees in order to enhance their performance; defining targets and providing appropriate means; controlling progress and correcting employees.
- has a natural authority over other people
- takes control in team meetings in which complex and opposing interests are defended
- distinguishes between personal and organizational interests
- brings employees' career development in tune with strategic goals
- gets the most out of their employees
Networking
The ability to develop and maintain relations, alliances and coalitions within and outside the organization and to use them in order to obtain information, support and cooperation.
- looks beyond cultural differences and other barriers in their search for useful contacts
- contacts other departments in order to increase the chance of their own project succeeding (cooperation, support)
- uses their network (e.g. for information) to support their work
- involves others in their professional networks and stimulates them to expand these
- engages others in creating a broader basis for one's organisation to achieve its goals
- searches critically for people who could play a role in expanding their influential network
- is cooperative and incorruptible, uses their network without manipulating it
Business Orientation
The ability to recognize opportunities for new services and products and to act accordingly, taking measured risks into account.
- generates ideas about the organization's future and its scope of services; translates them into tangible strategies and goals
- explores opportunities for cooperation, partnerships or take-overs that could improve the organization's position
- presents new concepts in services and products that have not been marketed before
- recognizes the right moment for marketing innovative products and services
- explores strategic positions in (inter)national networks that could benefit the organization
- does not avoid risks even when certain aspects and facts are still unknown
Vision
The ability to step back from one’s daily routine, explore ideas for the future, regard the facts from a distance and see them in a broader context or in the longer term.
- combines various social trends and developments into an integrated vision of the future
- sees chances and opportunities for the organization before others do and acts accordingly
- recognizes national and international trends early on and oversees their consequences for the organization
- integrates developments in different disciplines into a new concept
- is able to think ahead on the basis of limited information
- is able to imagine possibilities other people think are impossible
Innovative power
The ability to direct one’s inquisitive mind toward initiating new strategies, products, services, and markets.
- formulates ideas that are not yet shared by others
- is able to let go of existing concepts and products, and come up with daring new ones
- is able to excite others about new ideas and to make them advocate those ideas as well
- keeps demonstrating faith in their own ideas and innovative concepts and products
- is able to handle resistance against their own ideas within giving them up
Creativity
The ability to come up with original and innovative ideas and solutions, to adopt points of view outside the usual parameters.
- comes up with new ideas that seem (yet) impossible to others
- is sometimes hard to follow because of their swift and unusual associations
- is able to connect concepts and views from different disciplines
- comes up with ideas out of the box
- comes up with unconventional solutions and ideas
Result-Oriented
The ability to take direct action in order to attain or exceed objectives.
- defines challenging objectives that have an impact on other people's or the department's performance
- develops an efficient and tangible plan of action with clear objectives, timing, use of means and staff, aet cetera
- makes tangible agreements with all people involved how to attain objectives
- maintains regular communication on proceedings with all people involved
- addresses others on attaining objectives when necessary
Our Core Values
People first. We create collaborative and supportive environments by operating with respect and flexibility to promote mental, emotional and physical health. We practice empathy by treating others the way they want to be treated and assuming positive intent. We are proud of our inclusive diverse team and humble ourselves to learn about and build our connection with each other.
Patient focused. We act with swift determination without sacrificing our expectations of quality. We are driven by providing exceptional solutions for our customers to positively impact patient lives. Considering what is at stake, we challenge ourselves to develop the best solution, not just the easy one.
Integrity. We hold ourselves accountable and strive for transparent communication to build trust amongst ourselves and our customers. We take ownership of our results as we know what we do matters and collectively we will change the healthcare industry. We are thoughtful and intentional with every customer interaction understanding the overall impact on human health.
Curious. We ask questions and actively listen in order to learn and continuously improve. We embrace change and the opportunities it presents to make each other better. We strive to be on the cutting edge of science and technology innovation by encouraging creativity.
Impactful. We take our social responsibility with the seriousness it deserves and hold ourselves to a high standard. We improve our sustainability by encouraging discussion and taking action as it relates to our natural, social and economic resource footprint. We are devoted to our humanitarian mission and look for new ways to make the world a better place.
Velsera is an Equal Opportunity Employer:
Velsera is proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to providing employment opportunity regardless of sex, race, creed, colour, gender, religion, marital status, domestic partner status, age, national origin or ancestry.
