Posted May 8, 2026
Job Title: Lead Product Designer Employment Status: Exempt Office Hours: Hybrid Location: Vienna, Austria OR Boston, MA, USA Compensation: Vienna based: €110K+ salary based on experience, Boston based: $155K-$168K salary. Compensation also includes performance-based bonus program and equity *compensation dependent on related experience level
Own discovery as a craft. Stand up a JTBD and persona knowledge base that PMs, engineers, and customer success reference weekly as shared vocabulary. Run a sustained cadence of user research — interviews, synthesis, prototype-based hypothesis testing — at a depth that would have required a much larger research org a few years ago. - Shape the roadmap upstream. Embed designers as partners with product managers from the earliest stages of discovery, not as downstream service providers. Be the person who can change a roadmap decision through research rather than assertion. Install the rituals — design reviews, discovery syncs, artifact ownership — that keep the user voice central when commercial pressure pulls direction elsewhere. - Lead design for products used by multiple personas across a single regulated workflow — from upstream tools like Jira, Polarion, and GitHub all the way through to compliance artifacts and audit-ready records. "User-friendly" here doesn't mean consumer polish; it means making genuinely complex work feel coherent. - Develop the design team thoughtfully. Raise the craft bar on persona-to-workflow translation. Establish the standards, systems, and tooling that let design scale without depending on a single leader being in every room. - Use AI-native tooling to compress the discovery-to-insight loop and run more research, more rigorously, than a traditional team of your size could. We're more interested in how you go deeper on discovery than how fast you can prototype. ### Required Skills:
A track record shipping design for specialized B2B users in regulated or technically deep domains — medtech, legal tech, compliance, industrial, developer tools, finance. - A research-led orientation. You can show — not describe — a JTBD or persona knowledge base you've built, and walk us through a product decision it shaped. - Hands-on experience leading a design team through the AI-native transition, with a perspective that goes beyond "we prototype faster now."
Currently a design lead or strong #2 at a Series B/C B2B SaaS company. Early-stage operating experience is essential. - Willing and able to travel to Vienna every 4–6 weeks, with heavier travel in the first three months. ###
This role can be Boston, MA or Vienna, AT based, with travel between offices every 4–6 weeks. Expect heavier travel during your first three months as you get to know the team and the work. The role reports to the Head of Product and partners closely with our CTO and product leadership. If this sounds like the right next step, we'd love to hear from you. We empower software teams building medical applications to create safe, secure, and compliant products used by patients and providers worldwide. We believe that, by automating much of the documentation and quality processes, teams will be able to produce safer and more innovative medical software faster. Ketryx is at the forefront of helping teams incorporate AI/ML into medical software and that’s why we need you!
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