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Join Us in Building the Future of Human Performance
At Viction, we're not building another health app — we're building a new category of human performance technology.
Our mission is to empower people to better understand themselves and continuously improve every aspect of their health and performance through scientifically grounded insights, intelligent coaching, and beautifully designed technology.
We believe sophisticated health science should feel simple, actionable, and inspiring. By combining biomarkers, wearable technologies, nutrition, recovery, behavioral science, and artificial intelligence into a unified platform, Viction will help individuals make better daily performance-based decisions, ultimately allowing them to realize their full potential.
We're seeking an experienced product leader who is energized by the opportunity to help define an entirely new category of human performance technology. This is a rare opportunity to shape not only a product, but the direction of a company.
The Opportunity
Product Strategy and Design are inseparable at Viction. As our Fractional Director of Product Strategy & Design, you will serve as the steward of our product vision, translating strategy into execution while ensuring every feature contributes to a cohesive, differentiated, and compelling member experience.
This is a founding product leadership opportunity. You'll work directly with our founders, advisory board, UX/UI designers, engineers, AI specialists, and domain experts to determine what we build, why we build it, and how we deliver an experience that members genuinely love.
Key Tasks & Responsibilities
What You'll Own
What problems deserve solving
Which features matter most
Which features should wait
How features reinforce one another
What creates lasting competitive differentiation
What gets built, and why it gets built
Feature priorities, technical and business dependencies, and product sequencing
Release planning
Protection of MVP discipline while guiding long-term platform evolution
Core Responsibilities
Lead product strategy and evolve the long-term product vision
Translate strategy into product roadmaps, epics, user stories, and development plans
Lead product discovery, customer research, and journey mapping
Guide UX/UI direction to create a premium consumer-grade experience
Own the end-to-end member experience across onboarding, AI coaching, scoring, education, engagement, and retention
Partner across engineering, design, AI, clinical, marketing, and leadership teams
Champion a scalable design system and exceptional product quality
Continuously validate assumptions through customer feedback and analytics
Monitor emerging trends in AI, digital health, wearables, and human performance
Education & Experience
Who You Are
An experienced product leader with a passion for building consumer products
Equally comfortable discussing customer psychology, UX, AI, engineering trade-offs, and business strategy
A systems thinker who thrives in ambiguity and enjoys creating clarity
A collaborative leader who inspires teams without relying on formal authority
Someone who believes every feature should have a purpose and every interaction should build trust
Preferred Experience
Consumer mobile applications
Digital health, wellness, or human performance
AI-enabled products
Wearables and connected devices
Subscription platforms
Behavior-change or coaching products
Startup or early-stage company experience
Certifications
- Industry related certifications are a plus
Other (Travel, Work Environment, DoD 8570 Requirements, Administrative Notes, etc.)
Work Arrangement: 100% Remote, fractional engagement (~20 hours per week)
What Success Looks Like
Build the right product, not simply adding more features
Create a product experience that feels premium, intuitive, and motivating
Translate vision into disciplined execution
Help position Viction as a category leader in human performance
Why Join Viction?
This is an opportunity to influence the direction of a company from its earliest stages. You'll have meaningful experiences, direct access to founders, the ability to shape product strategy and experience, and the satisfaction of helping build technology that can genuinely improve people's lives.
If you're energized by creating products that blend science, design, technology, and human behavior, and want to leave your fingerprint on something extraordinary, we'd love to meet you.
Computer World Services is an affirmative action and equal employment opportunity employer. Current employees and/or qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.
Computer World Services is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Computer World Services will ensure that individuals with disabilities (IWD) are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact Human Resources at [email protected].
Join Us in Building the Future of Human Performance
At Viction, we're not building another health app — we're building a new category of human performance technology.
Our mission is to empower people to better understand themselves and continuously improve every aspect of their health and performance through scientifically grounded insights, intelligent coaching, and beautifully designed technology.
We believe sophisticated health science should feel simple, actionable, and inspiring. By combining biomarkers, wearable technologies, nutrition, recovery, behavioral science, and artificial intelligence into a unified platform, Viction will help individuals make better daily performance-based decisions, ultimately allowing them to realize their full potential.
We're seeking an experienced product leader who is energized by the opportunity to help define an entirely new category of human performance technology. This is a rare opportunity to shape not only a product, but the direction of a company.
The Opportunity
Product Strategy and Design are inseparable at Viction. As our Fractional Director of Product Strategy & Design, you will serve as the steward of our product vision, translating strategy into execution while ensuring every feature contributes to a cohesive, differentiated, and compelling member experience.
This is a founding product leadership opportunity. You'll work directly with our founders, advisory board, UX/UI designers, engineers, AI specialists, and domain experts to determine what we build, why we build it, and how we deliver an experience that members genuinely love.
Key Tasks & Responsibilities
What You'll Own
What problems deserve solving
Which features matter most
Which features should wait
How features reinforce one another
What creates lasting competitive differentiation
What gets built, and why it gets built
Feature priorities, technical and business dependencies, and product sequencing
Release planning
Protection of MVP discipline while guiding long-term platform evolution
Core Responsibilities
Lead product strategy and evolve the long-term product vision
Translate strategy into product roadmaps, epics, user stories, and development plans
Lead product discovery, customer research, and journey mapping
Guide UX/UI direction to create a premium consumer-grade experience
Own the end-to-end member experience across onboarding, AI coaching, scoring, education, engagement, and retention
Partner across engineering, design, AI, clinical, marketing, and leadership teams
Champion a scalable design system and exceptional product quality
Continuously validate assumptions through customer feedback and analytics
Monitor emerging trends in AI, digital health, wearables, and human performance
Education & Experience
Who You Are
An experienced product leader with a passion for building consumer products
Equally comfortable discussing customer psychology, UX, AI, engineering trade-offs, and business strategy
A systems thinker who thrives in ambiguity and enjoys creating clarity
A collaborative leader who inspires teams without relying on formal authority
Someone who believes every feature should have a purpose and every interaction should build trust
Preferred Experience
Consumer mobile applications
Digital health, wellness, or human performance
AI-enabled products
Wearables and connected devices
Subscription platforms
Behavior-change or coaching products
Startup or early-stage company experience
Certifications
- Industry related certifications are a plus
Other (Travel, Work Environment, DoD 8570 Requirements, Administrative Notes, etc.)
Work Arrangement: 100% Remote, fractional engagement (~20 hours per week)
What Success Looks Like
Build the right product, not simply adding more features
Create a product experience that feels premium, intuitive, and motivating
Translate vision into disciplined execution
Help position Viction as a category leader in human performance
Why Join Viction?
This is an opportunity to influence the direction of a company from its earliest stages. You'll have meaningful experiences, direct access to founders, the ability to shape product strategy and experience, and the satisfaction of helping build technology that can genuinely improve people's lives.
If you're energized by creating products that blend science, design, technology, and human behavior, and want to leave your fingerprint on something extraordinary, we'd love to meet you.
Computer World Services is an affirmative action and equal employment opportunity employer. Current employees and/or qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.
Computer World Services is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Computer World Services will ensure that individuals with disabilities (IWD) are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact Human Resources at [email protected].
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software
- Retail
- Manufacturing
- Media & Entertainment
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in director of product design jobs.
- 7 or more years of product design experience including 2 or more years managing designers
- Portfolio demonstrating shipped consumer or enterprise products at scale
- Proficiency in Figma and experience owning or contributing to a design system
- Ability to partner with product management and engineering at the leadership level
- Experience conducting and synthesizing user research to inform design strategy
- Bachelor's or master's degree in design, human-computer interaction, or a related field
Tips for Your Director Of Product Design Job Search
Tailor your portfolio for leadership
Hiring committees at the director level want to see how you shaped a team's design process, not just polished final screens. Lead each case study with the strategic problem, your decision-making, and measurable outcomes your team delivered.
Highlight your design systems experience
Many director of product design roles require owning or scaling a design system across multiple product lines. Call out specific systems you've built or governed, the tools involved, and how adoption improved design velocity or consistency across engineering teams.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists director of product design openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target companies mid-design-maturity
Director of product design roles have the most impact and broadest scope at companies building out their design practice, not those with fully established teams. Filter for organizations that recently hired their first few designers or are scaling a product team rapidly.
Prepare a design critique example
Most interview processes include a live design critique or team portfolio review. Practice articulating not just what you'd change in a design, but why, grounding your feedback in user needs, business constraints, and the team's current capacity to execute.
Negotiate scope before title or compensation
At the director level, the team size, reporting structure, and product surface area you'll own matter more than title variations. Ask directly in late-stage conversations how many designers report to the role and which product areas you'll have final design authority over.
Director Of Product Design Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most director of product designs?
The companies hiring the most director of product designs right now include Chewy, oura, and Qualia, with the largest share of openings in Texas, New York, and California, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. Demand is concentrated in companies scaling their product org or launching new platform lines.
How many director of product design jobs are remote?
About 71% of director of product design openings are fully remote or hybrid as of August 2026, reflecting broad acceptance of distributed design leadership across the industry. Sub-areas like UX strategy, design operations, and systems design tend to see the highest share of remote-eligible postings compared to roles tied to hardware or in-person research programs.
How do you become a director of product design?
Most directors reach the role by first establishing a strong individual contributor record, then moving into a lead or principal designer position where they mentor others and own a product area end to end. From there, taking on direct reports, running design critiques, and owning cross-functional relationships with product and engineering builds the leadership foundation hiring managers look for at the director level.
Can you get hired as a director of product design without prior management experience?
It's possible but uncommon. Some companies will consider senior individual contributors who have informally led design on a large product surface, mentored junior designers, or driven a design system adoption effort. The strongest candidates without formal management history make their case through documented influence on team process, clear examples of cross-functional leadership, and a portfolio that shows strategic product thinking rather than execution alone.
What does the director of product design interview process look like?
The process typically runs across four to six stages. It usually starts with a recruiter screen, followed by a portfolio presentation where you walk through two or three case studies in depth. Later rounds include a design critique or take-home exercise, a leadership interview focused on how you build and develop teams, and cross-functional conversations with product management and engineering partners before a final executive discussion.
Where can I find and apply to director of product design jobs?
You can find and apply to director of product design jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search the listings to find roles that match your experience and seniority, then apply directly to each one that fits.
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