Director of Product Design – Boston or SF
Pear Therapeutics • Remote

About Pear Therapeutics:

Pear Therapeutics is the leader in prescription digital therapeutics. We aim to redefine medicine by discovering, developing, and delivering clinically validated software-based therapeutics to provide better outcomes for patients, smarter engagement and tracking tools for clinicians, and cost-effective solutions for payers. Pear has a pipeline of products and product candidates across therapeutic areas, including severe psychiatric and neurological conditions. Our lead product, reSET®, for the treatment of Substance Use Disorder, was the first prescription digital therapeutic to receive marketing authorization from the FDA to treat disease. Pear’s second product, reSET-O®, for the treatment of Opioid Use Disorder, received marketing authorization from the FDA in December 2018. Pear’s third PDT, SomrystTM, is the first FDA-authorized prescription digital therapeutic (PDT) for patients with chronic insomnia and the first product submitted through FDA’s traditional 510(k) pathway while simultaneously reviewed through FDA’s Software Precertification Pilot Program. For more information, visit us at www.peartherapeutics.com.

Position Summary:

Pear’s Product Development team, located in Boston and SF, is passionate about crafting engaging products that positively impact patient lives. As a Director of Product Design, you’ll collaborate extensively across Clinical, Commercial, Engineering, Portfolio, and Product teams to bring the patient voice and design thinking to our strategy and business goals. We’re a close-knit, inquisitive group, constantly leveraging research and data and optimizing the process of designing software in a regulated medical device space.

The ideal candidate thinks about the big picture and is passionate about people. Curious by nature, you enjoy solving problems, care deeply about details, and have a high emotional intelligence. Your excellent communication skills pale only in comparison to your leadership and strategic skills.

This position is remote! We have offices in Boston, San Francisco and Raleigh and would welcome people that are in and around those geographical areas.

Responsibilities:

• Define the strategy for the Product Design and User Research teams in line with business goals
• Facilitate design discussions with a wide variety of stakeholders, identify signals in the noise, and inform how design contributes to patient and provider success
• Partner cross-functionally to help the Product Design and User Research teams turn ideas and hypotheses into appealing, safe, and clinically efficacious products
• Grow and nurture the talent of the Product Design and User Research teams
• Lead continuous improvement of design and research processes to enable delivery of the best solutions for patients and providers, while keeping business goals, constraints and timely delivery top of mind

Minimum Requirements:

• A degree in interaction/experience/visual design, HCI, related field or equivalent experience
• 10+ years’ experience designing web and mobile applications
• 2+ years managing designers / leading design teams
• A portfolio showcasing your work or the work of a team you’ve led, demonstrating an end-to-end process from user research to concept development and delivery
• A solid understanding of user research methodologies and best practices
• Demonstrated excellence in designing and enhancing new-to-the-world products
• Proven ability to collaborate with diverse teams and track multiple streams of information in a dynamic, technical, rapid changing environment

Skills

• People management, specifically coaching, mentorship, sponsorship, performance management and career development
• Demonstrated strategic design thinking and tying the value of UX to business objectives
• Experience working cross-functionally to increase understanding, remove barriers and make communication more seamless
• Evolve, elevate and communicate user-centered design within the organization
• A knack for distilling complex information into potential solutions and presenting to stakeholders in an easy-to-understand manner
• Ability to come up to speed quickly on new domains

Approach

• A healthy sense of humor
• Excellent ability to communicate ideas through compelling stories
• Ability to advocate upwards and laterally
• Strong sense of commitment to people and dedication to deliver on business goals
• Initiative to motivate teams and build skills of team members
• A self-sufficient, self-starter personality hungry to learn new skills and proactively take on new challenges

Equal Employment Opportunity

Pear Therapeutics is committed to equal opportunity in the terms and conditions of employment for all employees and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion or religious creed, ancestry, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, genetic information, qualified physical or mental disability or handicap, medical condition, qualified military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law. Pear Therapeutics also follows all applicable national, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment as well as employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfers, leave of absences, compensation and training.

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