[Hiring] Director, Product Design @Velsera

Role Description

You'd be joining as the design authority for our Seven Bridges Platform and the leader of design at Velsera, just as we rebuild how we design, validate and ship. You report directly to the Chief Strategy and Product Officer, and decisions that take quarters elsewhere happen here in days.

Our product managers have already started turning ideas into working, on-brand prototypes with AI and put them in front of customers within weeks. The design foundations that make that speed safe are yours to build and own:

• Design tokens
• A component library
• The patterns everyone works with

This is a hands-on leadership role. You'll manage our product designer working on the clinical side of our portfolio, build the design function as it grows, and keep doing the craft yourself. There's no large design team to inherit; there's one to create.

The product is changing as fast as the craft is. Our users increasingly work alongside AI in research and diagnostic workflows, with dense, high-stakes data from many sources. Someone needs to rethink the journeys, trust models and information design of software like ours for that reality. That is a key remit of this job.

This role won't suit everyone. If you're looking for a mature design organization with settled processes, you won't find that here yet. If you want to build the system a whole company designs with, lead design for products with real clinical stakes, and do it at scale-up speed, we should talk.

Qualifications

• Seven or more years in product design, with senior ownership of user journeys on complex, data-heavy or scientific software.
• Experience building or leading at least one design system that engineering genuinely adopted.
• Formal management experience with designers, not just mentorship.
• Comfortable having your biggest impact through a system other people build with.
• Experience in fast, ambiguous environments.
• Familiarity with AI tools for design, prototyping, and production.
• Expertise in Figma, including variables and design-to-code workflows.
• Understanding of front-end development to collaborate with engineers.
• Ability to operate as the most senior design voice in the company.

Requirements

• Experience designing AI-powered product experiences.
• Clear point of view on trust, transparency, and human oversight in AI interfaces.
• Nice to have: experience with genomics, multi-omics, imaging, clinical or other life sciences data products.
• Familiarity with component documentation tools like Storybook.
• Experience establishing design practice in an engineering-led organization.

Benefits

• Real authority over a core product and the design function from day one.
• Direct line to the Chief Strategy and Product Officer.
• Opportunity to build a design practice from the ground up.

Company Description

Velsera builds software that turns complex biological data into research insight and clinical answers. Our platforms work across multi-omic and multi-modal data, including:

• Genomics
• Proteomics
• Transcriptomics
• Imaging
• Clinical and real-world data

We run like a scale-up: small teams with real authority, fast decisions, and AI woven into how we work day to day. We measure ourselves on impact for our customers and, ultimately, for patients.