Director of Design

1 day, 5 hours ago
Full-time
Lead
Design and User Experience
Isla Health

Isla Health

Isla Health provides a comprehensive health tech solution for remote monitoring clinical pathways, enabling clinicians to receive and review rich media data directly from patients to enhance remote care delivery.

Internet Software & Services
11-50
Founded 2019

Description

  • Define and lead the design practice, including processes, rituals, and standards that support scale.
  • Represent the voice of the user in significant product and business decisions from discovery through delivery.
  • Establish and improve the user research practice so insights are visible, accessible, and inform product decisions.
  • Own the design system, ensuring it remains healthy, consistent, and scalable as the product evolves.
  • Set governance for the design system with an eye on AI-readiness and long-term consistency.
  • Lead the team’s approach to AI by integrating AI tools into the design workflow and building confidence in their use.
  • Champion the use of both quantitative and qualitative data to support evidence-led design decisions.
  • Contribute directly to the design of complex clinical and patient-facing features.
  • Lay out the product vision to the business and users in line with the product roadmap.
  • Partner closely with the Director of Product and other stakeholders to ensure design enables delivery rather than becoming a bottleneck.

Requirements

  • Track record of designing in high-stakes, regulated, or clinical environments where consistency, clarity, and safety are critical.
  • Technically fluent and able to communicate credibly with engineers and design pragmatically around constraints.
  • Strong UX judgment backed by data, research, and clinical context.
  • Experience experimenting with AI tools and understanding how they can be applied in design and build workflows.
  • Confident communicator who can explain design rationale to clinical, product, and engineering stakeholders.
  • Ability to influence decisions without relying on formal authority.
  • Strong instincts for process, quality, and how design teams function effectively at pace.
  • Experience taking on senior design leadership while staying hands-on with craft is strongly implied.
  • Comfort operating in a fast-moving, scaling environment is preferred.

Benefits

  • Work from home or from the office at 131 Finsbury Pavement (Industrious).
  • Equity options and pension contributions.
  • Flexible working times.
  • Work abroad for up to 90 days per year.
  • Enhanced parental leave.
  • 25 days of annual leave on top of bank holidays.
  • Take your birthday off and one additional significant day off of your choice.
  • Quarterly meal allowance of up to £75 for friends or family.
  • Monthly wellbeing bonus of £50 for gym membership or wellbeing activities, or private medical insurance.
  • Quarterly team socials.
  • Annual learning budget to support professional growth.
  • Opportunity to have social impact by improving patient healthcare.
  • Join a well-funded, rapidly growing startup working on a global problem in a new way.

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