Senior Manager of Product Design, COMPASS Pathways
$150-200k
Salary applicable to New York only
1-5 days a week in office
Biotech accelerating patient access to evidence-based innovation in mental health
Job no longer available
Biotech accelerating patient access to evidence-based innovation in mental health
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$150-200k
Salary applicable to New York only
1-5 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To accelerate patient access and experience to evidence-based innovation in mental health care, to achieve a vision of a world of mental wellbeing.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years of experience working in product design and at least 2 years leading a design team with strong skills in people development and up-leveling design craft
- Experience designing web and app-based products, in the health, pharmaceutical, medtech, and/or digital therapeutic markets
- Ability to lead broad initiatives, encourage diverse perspectives, and build alignment with cross-functional partners and leads
- Experience working with and mentoring Design peers across multiple product areas while collaborating effectively with Engineers, Product Managers, Content Designers, and Researchers
- Strong UX/UI design, UX research and product testing skills
- Expert in variety of tools, such as Figma, Miro, Adobe Illustrator, Sketch, etc. Keen understanding what tool to use in different situations
- Familiarity with HTML and CSS. High-level understanding of databases, data modelling and software engineering practices a strong plus
- Experience establishing design thinking in organizations and leading workshops
- Passionate about accessibility and diversity in design
- Commitment to mental health and addressing disparities in healthcare
What the job involves
- We are looking for an experienced Product Design leader to join our team
- In this role, you’ll help define product design at COMPASS throughout the entire development lifecycle. Specifically, you will ensure all the technology products deployed by Compass are intuitive, easy to use, and provide a seamless user experience to our patients, clinicians and other end users
- You will be expected to execute and/or lead each phase of the design process, including designing new products from scratch as well as improving on existing designs to ensure a unified design strategy. You will also lead and develop a small team of product designers already in house
- Reports to: Senior Director, Product
- You function as both a product designer as well as a direct manager who heads up the design function
- Lead the design strategy and priorities across products
- Manage and oversee the performance and career development of our design team
- Ability to collaborate as well as excel autonomously as a product designer
- Bring a seasoned product design perspective and empathetic user voice to strategic discussions with product, engineering and the broader organisation
- Facilitate product design discussions and decisions to enable the team to perform their best
- Collaborate with content and graphic designers to shape the user experience of our products
- Ensure a strong product design culture internally by continuously advocating for the needs of the users (i.e., patients, therapists, payers and our internal team)
- Apply a strong level of technical design skills, problem-solving, design thinking, user centricity and research to our product ecosystem independently and with a team
- Work with other Product team members to perform user research and testing. Identify key insights and create a formalized system for capturing and sharing learnings
- Organize, establish, and standardize UI component libraries for all digital products
- Provide detailed design specifications, architecture, user interfaces and experiences, and prototypes for new features
- Lead design of holistic systems, flows and interfaces across mobile and desktop products to create a collated ecosystem of products
Our take
There’s been a major movement towards treating mental health issues with psychedelics over the last few years. While the vast majority of this work is still in R&D and clinical trials, the space has become awash with capital investment, with a handful of companies even going public.
COMPASS Pathways is one of those to go public, along with MindMed in 2020. The company is developing methods for treating depression and other mental health issues with psilocybin – the naturally occurring psychedelic chemical found in mushrooms.
The growth of COMPASS from being founded in 2016 to IPO in 2020 has been extraordinary. There have been a few ups and downs since then (as is the case with most PLCs), with each rise and fall dependent on the progress of its trials. However, the fact that the company recently appointed former Otsuka Pharmaceutical executive Kabir Nath as CEO, bolstered by $285 million in private placement VC shows that it's determined to stay ahead of the competition.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Apr 2020
$80m
SERIES B
Oct 2018
$25m
SERIES A
Total funding: $109.1m
Company benefits
- Pension and retirement savings plans
- Flexible working arrangements, including flexible hours, working-from-home and hybrid working
- Community Circles: a regular opportunity for team members to connect, share lived experiences, inspire others, and learn from each other
- Regular virtual and in-person social events, including a London-based hiking group, art and creative workshops, food and drinks evenings, team picnics, and holiday celebrations
- Comprehensive and market-leading health and wellness benefits including company paid healthcare plans
- Confidential counselling or therapy sessions via our Employee Assistance Programme
- Support from our own dedicated Community Wellbeing Lead to guide team members to our resources
- Workplace wellbeing initiatives, including employee-led yoga, meditation, mindfulness, and support groups for parents and carers and for people who are neurodiverse
- Breast-feeding facilities at our London office
- Wellbeing Leadership Forums for Line Managers
- Generous paid time off/annual leave allowance including one company closing per year and your birthday off
- Generous paid parental leave for eligible team members, up to 39 weeks
- Paid family and dependent care leave in addition to parental leave
- Job architecture, providing employees with guidance and clear pathways for developing and progressing their career and twice-yearly promotions cycle
- A process for performance and development goals that is tied to employees receiving feedback throughout the year and assessing individual performance and rewards at the end of the year
- Dedicated internal resources including regular webinars to support employees’ personal development and career goals
- A learning curriculum of courses on offer delivered by external experts to develop specific skill areas
- Dedicated effort for early career team members to learn skills and strategies for advancement
Company HQ
Soho, London, UK
Leadership
Kabir Nath
(CEO)Joined as CEO in 2022, having served as Senior Managing Director of Global Pharmaceutical Business at Japanese company Otsuka. Prior to this, they spent a decade at Bristol Myers Squibb in a number of roles including SVP of Virology, US Pharmaceuticals.
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