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Lead Researcher
Lead Researcher (Systems) -
Respiratory Health Venture (ADG)
Join ADGs Mission to Transform Respiratory Health:
ADG, a leading innovation and design consultancy, is seeking a Lead Researcher (Systems) to pioneer the development of cutting-edge medical devices and services. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the future of healthcare and requires a dynamic individual who can navigate complex stakeholder environments and manage diverse teams. This role is a 6 month full-time contract with potential for extension or promotion to a permanent full-time role. The role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to ADG's transformative impact on society as a whole through groundbreaking ventures.
Your Role:
Innovation and Insight: Drive the development of groundbreaking medical devices and digital services by transforming broad concepts into detailed features. Cultivate an entrepreneurial perspective to understand and align with the incentives that drive actors in the healthcare ecosystem.
Strategic Influence: Collaborate on high-level strategic decisions, guiding product and business strategy with your research insights. Lead systems mapping and demonstrate the ability to distill a complex healthcare system into step-by-step opportunities for innovation.
Design Expertise: Contribute to both physical and digital design from ideation through testing to polished final products, ensuring resonant and intuitive stimuli and user experiences. Emphasize a multilateral approach to service design, considering the involvement of multiple actors and aligning with our medical device strategy.
Ecosystem Thinker: Design within a holistic ecosystem, expertly balancing the nuances of hardware, software, and service design. Demonstrate multilateral thinking in terms of service by multiple actors, particularly in conjunction with our medical device strategy.
Feature Brainstorming: Innovate and validate new features, ensuring they are desirable, functional, and enhance user experience. Consider how these features contribute to the overall value proposition and address the needs of various stakeholders.
Platform Ecosystem Stickiness: Research, design, and validate platform aspects that sell, onboard, and retain clinicians, ensuring a sticky user experience. Connect these efforts to the broader entrepreneurial and strategic context, ensuring alignment with ADG's overall goals and medical device strategy.
Hands-on Testing: Lead in-person testing with respiratory health clinicians and their support teams, from recruitment to execution, ensuring direct end-user feedback and validation. Use this feedback loop to inform not only service design but also contribute to the broader entrepreneurial understanding and alignment with the healthcare system's complexities.
Responsibilities:
Research Methods Development and Execution: Identify opportunities, define research questions, and select appropriate methods for impactful data collection.
Analytics and Analysis: Synthesize qualitative and quantitative data, translating insights into actionable design strategies.
Solution Generation and Design: Proactively ideate and visualize solutions, leading workshops, and ideation sessions.
Storytelling and Influence: Communicate findings with clarity, brevity, and strong visual design, influencing cross-functional partners effectively.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Build relationships and integrate research throughout the company, advocating for user-centric design.
Mentorship and Leadership: Guide and share knowledge with team members, promoting a culture of learning and growth.
Project Management and Efficiency: Scope, plan, and progress projects to successful completion, balancing multiple work streams.
Qualifications:
Bachelors or Masters in Design, HCI, Psychology, Anthropology, or related field.
7+ years in human-centered design research, preferably with some medical devices or digital health experience.
Proven experience in team leadership, ideation, and workshop facilitation.
Proficiency in digital design and prototyping tools (e.g., Figma, Sketch).
Experience managing diverse stakeholders, subcontractors and project teams.
Working Environment:
Remote Flexibility: Fully remote position, enabling you to work from anywhere.
Pacific Time Office Hours: Though remote, we maintain Pacific Time office hours, ensuring alignment with our client team.
Flexible Schedule: Enjoy the flexibility to manage your work schedule, supporting work-life balance.
International Collaboration: Occasional off-hours meetings with our international stakeholders.
Why ADG:
Impactful Work: Contribute to innovative projects that redefine respiratory health.
Creative Freedom: Lead research and strategy in an environment that values innovation.
Collaborative Culture: Work in a dynamic team setting with a diverse range of projects and clients.
Growth Opportunities: Expand your skills at the intersection of design, research, and strategy.
Join Us:
Are you ready to lead design research in a transformative health venture? If you're passionate about creating innovative solutions in the medical device space, ADG awaits your expertise. Apply now to join our journey in reshaping respiratory health care.
Lead Researcher
Lead Researcher (UX) -
Respiratory Health Venture (ADG)
Join ADGs Mission to Transform Respiratory Health:
ADG, a leading innovation and design consultancy, is seeking a Lead Researcher (UX) to pioneer the development of cutting-edge medical devices and services. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the future of healthcare and requires a dynamic individual who can navigate complex stakeholder environments and manage diverse teams. This role is a 6 month full-time contract with potential for extension or promotion to a permanent full-time role. The role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to ADG's transformative impact on society as a whole through groundbreaking ventures.
Your Role:
Innovation and Insight: Drive the development of groundbreaking medical devices and digital services by transforming broad concepts into detailed features.
Strategic Influence: Collaborate on high-level strategic decisions, guiding product and business strategy with your research insights.
Design Expertise: Contribute to physical and digital design from ideation through testing and on to polished final products, ensuring resonant and intuitive stimuli and user experiences.
Ecosystem Thinker: Design within a holistic ecosystem, expertly balancing the nuances of hardware, software, and service design.
Feature Brainstorming: Innovate and validate new features, ensuring they are desirable, functional, and enhance user experience.
Platform Ecosystem Stickiness: Research, design, and validate platform aspects that sell, onboard, and retain patients, ensuring a sticky user experience.
Hands-on Testing: Lead in-person testing with respiratory health patients and the people who support them, from recruitment to execution, ensuring direct end-user feedback and validation.
Responsibilities:
Research Methods Development and Execution: Identify opportunities, define research questions, and select appropriate methods for impactful data collection.
Analytics and Analysis: Synthesize qualitative and quantitative data, translating insights into actionable design strategies.
Solution Generation and Design: Proactively ideate and visualize solutions, leading workshops, and ideation sessions.
Storytelling and Influence: Communicate findings with clarity, brevity, and strong visual design, influencing cross-functional partners effectively.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Build relationships and integrate research throughout the company, advocating for user-centric design.
Mentorship and Leadership: Guide and share knowledge with team members, promoting a culture of learning and growth.
Project Management and Efficiency: Scope, plan, and progress projects to successful completion, balancing multiple work streams.
Qualifications:
Bachelors or Masters in Design, HCI, Psychology, Anthropology, or related field.
7+ years in human-centered design research, preferably in medical devices or digital health.
Proven experience in team leadership, ideation, and workshop facilitation.
Proficiency in digital design and prototyping tools (e.g., Figma, Sketch).
Experience managing diverse stakeholders, subcontractors and project teams.
Working Environment:
Remote Flexibility: Fully remote position, enabling you to work from anywhere.
Pacific Time Office Hours: Though remote, we maintain Pacific Time office hours, ensuring alignment with our client team.
Flexible Schedule: Enjoy the flexibility to manage your work schedule, supporting work-life balance.
International Collaboration: Occasional off-hours meetings with our international stakeholders.
Why ADG:
Impactful Work: Contribute to innovative projects that redefine respiratory health.
Creative Freedom: Lead research and strategy in an environment that values innovation.
Collaborative Culture: Work in a dynamic team setting with a diverse range of projects and clients.
Growth Opportunities: Expand your skills at the intersection of design, research, and strategy.
Join Us:
Are you ready to lead design research in a transformative health venture? If you're passionate about creating innovative solutions in the medical device space, ADG awaits your expertise. Apply now to join our journey in reshaping respiratory health care.
Product Designer
Lead Product Designer -
Respiratory Health Venture (ADG)
ADG, a leading innovation and design consultancy, is seeking a Lead Product Designer to pioneer the development of cutting-edge medical devices and services. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the future of healthcare and requires a dynamic individual who can navigate complex stakeholder environments and manage diverse teams. This role is a 6 month full-time contract with potential for extension or promotion to a permanent full-time role. The role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to ADG's transformative impact on society as a whole through groundbreaking ventures.
Your Role:
Innovation Leader: Take charge of designing cutting-edge medical devices and digital services, merging physical and digital design to elevate patient care.
Broad Conceptual Thinking & Detailed Features: Seamlessly transition from broad conceptual thinking to detailed features, ensuring the transformation of wide-ranging ideas into practical, user-focused solutions at a production level. Engage in hands-on, pixel-perfect design, translating concepts into finely crafted products.
Strategic Decision-Making: Collaborate closely with product and executive teams, providing practical insight and contributing to high-level strategic decisions that align with the product's production-level requirements.
UI/UX Expert: Lead UI/UX design from initial concepts to polished final products, ensuring resonant user experiences.
Strategic Visionary: Develop and execute product strategies that align with business and user needs, creating impactful, user-centric designs.
Collaborative Force: Drive product vision and strategy alongside engineers, researchers, business strategists, and client partners.
End-to-End Design Ownership: As a product owner, take on a comprehensive role overseeing the entire design process across multiple features and projects. Dive into minute details to understand how patients and other actors interact with our product ecosystem, ensuring a nuanced and user-centric approach throughout the design journey.
Trend and Tech Integration: Stay ahead of industry trends and emerging technologies, weaving them into our design and product strategies.
Responsibilities:
Pixel-Perfect Design: Design pixel-perfect screens and prototypes, translating concepts into finely crafted products.
Solution Generation and Design: Proactively ideate and visualize solutions, leading workshops, and ideation sessions.
Storytelling and Influence: Communicate design work with clarity, brevity, and strong visual design, influencing cross-functional partners effectively.
Ecosystem Architect: Craft products within a holistic ecosystem, balancing hardware, software, and service design intricacies.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Build relationships and integrate product thinking throughout the company, advocating for user-centric design.
Mentorship and Leadership: Guide and share knowledge with team members, promoting a culture of learning and growth.
Project Management and Efficiency: Scope, plan, and progress projects to successful completion, balancing multiple work streams.
Qualifications:
Bachelors or Masters in Design or related field.
Experience designing digital and physical, preferably in medical devices or digital health.
Proven experience in team leadership, ideation, and workshop facilitation.
Proficiency in digital design and prototyping tools (e.g., Figma, Sketch).
Experience managing diverse stakeholders, subcontractors and project teams.
Working Environment:
Remote Flexibility: Fully remote position, enabling you to work from anywhere.
Pacific Time Office Hours: Though remote, we maintain Pacific Time office hours, ensuring alignment with our client team.
Flexible Schedule: Enjoy the flexibility to manage your work schedule, supporting work-life balance.
International Collaboration: Occasional off-hours meetings with our international stakeholders.
San Francisco Preferred: If you are located in San Francisco thats a plus.
Why ADG:
ADG is a next-generation innovation and design consultancy. We build ventures that reinvent the world. We partner with leading institutions, corporations, government agencies, venture capital firms and ambitious startups to bring concepts to market. More than forward-thinking, our work reimagines the future through balancing user needs, systems-thinking and business strategy.
ADG is about more than innovation; were about redefining markets and enhancing lives worldwide. Our latest venture in respiratory health promises to be a game-changer, and your design expertise is the key to this transformation.
Join Us:
Ready to spearhead the design of next-generation healthcare solutions? If you're driven to make a real impact in the medical device domain, ADG is your next destination. Apply now to be part of our mission to redefine respiratory health care.
Senior Manager
Senior Manager, Design Operations (ADG)
ADG, a leading innovation and design consultancy, is seeking a Senior Manager, Design Operations to join the ADG team to work closely with the CEO on ADG's operations and growth and project manage exciting and groundbreaking client projects. This role is a 6 month full-time contract with potential for extension or promotion to a permanent full-time role. The role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to ADG's transformative impact on society as a whole through groundbreaking ventures.
Your Role:
Plan and Execute: Develop detailed plans for each project role to ensure smooth progress, intervening proactively when issues arise. Collaborate closely with the Head of Venture Design on client projects to address challenges and optimize project outcomes.
Build and Manage Relationships: Organize stakeholders, establish vendor partnerships, facilitate research participant recruitment, and foster collaboration across a global, remote team.
Work closely with the CEO on the development of ADG, supporting business development tasks such as proposal writing and hiring.Manage Team Operations: Create schedules, oversee the tooling/tech stack, plan on-sites, and ensure high-quality work from the project team. Maintain a clear understanding of project scope and timeline for on-time, high-quality deliverables. Actively participate in recruiting and hiring processes to strengthen ADG's team.
Your Responsibilities:
Client Satisfaction Management: Lead scoping meetings, facilitate kickoffs, and conduct client check-ins to ensure project success. Strategically align client needs with the design team's work, contributing to overall client satisfaction within ADG's design program.
Operational Excellence Leadership: Contribute to ADG's internal operations by building a foundation for project excellence. Research and procure tools, recruit talent, budget projects, and enhance ADG's design practice for increased repeatability, scalability, and effectiveness. Keep ADG's company systems up to date to support seamless operations.
Advance Design at ADG: Utilize exposure to design, business strategy, operations, systems, and futures thinking to articulate ADG's cutting-edge and essential design approach in the 21st century. Work closely with the CEO to align design initiatives with the broader development and growth of ADG.
Qualifications:
Bachelors or Masters degree in Design, Business, or a related field.
Experience in design operations, emphasizing process optimization, workflow enhancement, and effective collaboration within design teams.
Proven project management skills, overseeing design projects from inception to delivery.
Expertise in developing and implementing efficient design processes and systems to ensure cohesive coordination across cross-functional teams.
Strong interpersonal and communication skills, enabling effective collaboration with diverse stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
Familiarity with design, UX, and design thinking methodologies.
Resourceful in managing budgets, timelines, and project resources.
Proactive and solutions-oriented mindset with the ability to navigate and resolve challenges in a dynamic design environment.
Awareness of emerging trends and technologies in design and design operations.
Working Environment:
San Francisco Based: Work flexibly from San Francisco including at ADG's office and our client offices in the Bay Area as well as from home.
Flexible Schedule: Enjoy the flexibility to manage your work schedule, supporting work-life balance.
International Collaboration: Occasional off-hours meetings with our international stakeholders.
No-Meeting Fridays: We avoid scheduling meetings on Friday.
Why ADG:
ADG is a next-generation innovation and design consultancy. We build ventures that reinvent the world. We partner with leading institutions, corporations, government agencies, venture capital firms and ambitious startups to bring concepts to market. More than forward-thinking, our work reimagines the future through balancing user needs, systems-thinking and business strategy.
ADG is about more than innovation; were about redefining markets and enhancing lives worldwide. Our latest venture in respiratory health promises to be a game-changer, and your design expertise is the key to this transformation.
Join Us:
Ready to spearhead the design of next-generation healthcare solutions? If you're driven to make a real impact in the medical device domain, ADG is your next destination. Apply now to be part of our mission to redefine respiratory health care.