Embark Veterinary

Associate Director, Product Design

Embark Veterinary

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $180,000 - $210,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Define and champion Embark's design strategy for personalized pet care experiences by leading strategic discovery and user research to understand pain points and validate opportunities.
  • Facilitating cross-functional workshops to align Product, Science, Marketing, and Engineering around user-centered solutions.
  • Synthesizing research findings, user feedback, and scientific insights into actionable product opportunities that drive behavioral change, engagement and community.
  • Ensure cohesive user experience, brand cohesion and design quality across our product portfolio, app and web surfaces.
  • Act as a player-coach, contributing hands-on design work while mentoring and guiding your team.
  • Work closely with Product Management and Engineering to translate designs into scalable, performant implementations and manage tradeoffs.

Requirements

  • 7 years of professional design experience, with a minimum of 2 years in a leadership role
  • Strong strategic thinking: Ability to lead discovery, synthesize complex information, and facilitate alignment around product direction
  • Systems thinking: Can work across multiple touchpoints and teams to create cohesive experiences
  • Design Craft: Solid skills across UX strategy, research, interaction, and visual design
  • Technical literacy: Can collaborate effectively with engineering and understand implementation constraints
  • Experience in growth-focused product design and leading habit-forming product strategies
  • Strong communication skills, able to present design solutions and inspire confidence among executives and non-design stakeholders.
  • Experience hiring, structuring, or scaling a design team.
  • Familiarity with freemium or trial-to-paid monetization models and balancing engagement vs. premium value.
  • Demonstrated capacity to quickly learn and design for emerging technologies, such as AI/LLM, with a focus on translating complexity into simple, behaviorally impactful experiences.
Benefits
  • Flexible vacation policy – take the time you need, when you need it.
  • Paid parental leave – plus paw-ternity leave for new pet parents!
  • Every other Friday off in the summer – enjoy those long weekends.
  • Subsidized pet insurance – because our pets are family.
  • Big-company benefits with a startup feel – including a 401k match, semi-annual bonus, commuter benefits, and premium healthcare.
  • Competitive salaries and stock options – be an owner in what we’re building.
  • New MacBook Pros or Windows devices – the tools you need to succeed.
  • Continuing education support – conferences, learning resources, and career growth opportunities.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
UX strategyuser researchinteraction designvisual designproduct designhabit-forming product strategiesAILLMdesign synthesisdesign quality
Soft skills
strategic thinkingsystems thinkingstrong communicationmentoringfacilitationteam leadershipcollaborationinspiring confidencealignment facilitationbehavioral change
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