Remote Senior Product Designer, Tidepool Data Platform

Company Description Tidepool is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization on a mission to make diabetes data more accessible, actionable, and meaningful for people with diabetes, their care teams, and researchers. Founded in 2013, Tidepool hosts a suite of free software tools for people with diabetes and the clinics that serve them, including Tidepool Web, Tidepool Mobile, Tidepool Uploader, and, pending submission to FDA and associated review, Tidepool Loop. Learn more at tidepool.org.

Follow us on Twitter at @Tidepool_org and on Facebook and Instagram . Job Description As a Senior Product Designer at Tidepool, you will work fluidly and collaboratively with product managers, engineers, sales, healthcare professionals and patients to make meaningful contributions to Tidepool and the diabetes community. This role calls for a designer who is passionate about understanding and advocating for patient and clinician needs, thrives in ambiguity and technical complexity and is excited about defining the vision and user experience for Tidepool’s Data Management Platform.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Product Design Lead design projects across Tidepool’s Data Management Platform as well as new products in development. Translate broad need statements from patients and healthcare professionals into meaningful designs, balancing usability with safety regulations and technical considerations. Communicate your data-informed vision and design rationale, that has users at the heart of it, to stakeholders and team members in a compelling way.

Partner closely with product, engineering and quality assurance engineers to drive design decisions and advocate for our users. Solve a variety of product design challenges across iOS, Android, web and mobile web. Build and manage a comprehensive design system and component library to maintain consistency.

Plan, design and lead a wide range of user research, including exploratory interviews and task-based usability testing. Break down experiences thoughtfully for teams to ship value incrementally (from Minimum Valuable Experience to Desired Experience), making intentional trade-offs that are grounded in a clear perspective. Develop deep understanding and empathy for people living with diabetes and healthcare providers and leverage that feedback to push for product refinement/improvement.

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