Associate Director, Design Research
Core
Lead and scale the Design Research practice to inform product innovation from early-stage insights to post-launch validation for WHOOP's health and performance hardware.
Role type
Senior leadership IC (Design Research)
Builds
Hardware products for human performance and health
Domain
Health technology / Consumer hardware
Required skills
Mixed-methods research, people management, hardware development lifecycle experience, external vendor management, cross-functional influence, AI tool adoption
Preferred skills
Experience in health or consumer product environments
Technologies
AI tools
Responsibilities
Provide strategic leadership for the design research team, evangelize user insights to senior leadership, scale research impact across the product lifecycle, manage and coach a team of design researchers, own relationships with external research vendors, build a cross-functional voice of the member
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with people management
