Lead Product Designer, Vira Health
£60-70k
Prescription digital therapeutics for menopause
Job no longer available
Prescription digital therapeutics for menopause
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
£60-70k
21-100 employees
Company mission
Vira Health is on a mission to make personalised menopause care the norm, delivering immediate relief as well as reducing the long-term impact of osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and dementia.
Role
Who you are
- At least 6 years of product design experience with a, not insignificant, amount of this gained designing apps for consumers (B2C)
- Visual design and UX skills that are both equally as impressive
- Happy working alone as a designer as well as with other designers
- Expertise in Sketch, invision (or similar) and other design/prototyping tools
- Equally as comfortable working closely with development teams as senior leaders
- Strong user centric product design skills but not averse to the pragmatism required to design towards achieving business goals
- Demonstrable experience of contributing to an evolving product vision
- Happy leading user interviews/design testing where necessary
- Experience working closely with remote (at times/currently) engineering teams in an agile environment
What the job involves
- You’ll work closely with a smart, collaborative team of the company’s two founders, product management, engineers, branding designer and others to own the end-to-end UX and visual design of the app
- As you are the only full-time designer, you will be responsible for the majority of design input - with some reliance on free lancers when necessary
Application process
- We are flexible about where you work - ideally, when it's safe to do so, you would be excited to come into the office for at least 3 days a week
- We are funded by some of the leading tech VCs in the UK (LocalGlobe, MMC Ventures) and have a slate of amazing operators as angels.
- You will be the first full-time designer and lead our transition from agency to in-house
- The design choices that you make each day will help our product stand out from the crowd of digital health products and allow us to achieve our goals of becoming a widely prescribed digital aid for women experiencing the menopause
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Female health has been historically under-resourced and overlooked and the results are staggering. Women are 2 times more likely to die of a heart attack. They have a 1.7 times higher risk of having an adverse drug reaction. Across brain cancer, chronic pain, endometriosis and dementia there is evidence of misdiagnosis of women.
This is all the product of a massive data gap – there is so much we do not know about women’s health. Vira and its team are one of the few tackling this gap. The company's initial focus is on menopause and its associated treatments through a mobile app called Stella. Vira makes a compelling justification for facing menopause head-on before branching out into other fem-health spaces.
The founding team has highly relevant experience and is well-placed to tackle female health. Alongside its product, Vira has managed to grow a community and provides tips, Q&A's, and virtual events to create a holistic approach to addressing female health which its users will not find anywhere else. Although its app has only recently found footing in the UK & Ireland, Vira is now available in the US market. Now flush with 2022 funding, the company can properly establish its product in these regions.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Mar 2022
$12m
SERIES A
Jul 2021
$2m
SEED
Total funding: $14m
Company benefits
- A commitment to adapting how we work to fit a variety of new and existing needs; we are remote first so flexibility is really important to us
- 25 days holidays plus bank holidays
- Vitality Health Insurance, including mental health and physiotherapists as well as telemedicine consultations (UK only)
- Your choice of tech equipment - whatever you need to get the job done
- Wednesday yoga with the team
- Enrolment in Vira Pension scheme (UK only)
- An environment where your personal development is really important
- Eyecare vouchers
- £250 to set up your home office if working remotely
- Cycle to Work scheme (UK only)
Company HQ
Highbury, London, UK
Leadership
Andrea Berchowitz
(Co-founder)10+ year McKinsey Consultant, ex-leader of Gates Foundation in Middle East, long-time advocate for better women’s health
Rebecca Love
(Co-founder)Medical Sciences PhD (Cambridge), chronic disease expert, trained epidemiologist, worked with Mayor of London, World Health Organisation and UNICEF
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