# Associate Director, Design Research at Whoop

- Company: Whoop
- What the company does: Backed by SoftBank VF and IVP.
- Company website: https://www.whoop.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Boston, MA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $140K to $180K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-28
- Apply by: 2026-11-12
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/whoop/654988f9-1021-4ec8-ae8a-fb7e7535e6e7
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/whoop-associate-director-design-research/

## About the role

Provide strategic leadership for the design research team, ensuring alignment with key stakeholders and organizational priorities. Evangelize the importance of user insights and the role of design research in the product and hardware development lifecycle to WHOOP senior leadership.

## What they're looking for

- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as human factors, design research, user experience research, design anthropology, psychology, or a related discipline
- 5+ years of experience conducting user research for physical products, ideally within hardware, health, or consumer product environments
- 5+ years of people management experience, including coaching, feedback, and performance development
- Strong mixed-methods research background, with demonstrated application of qualitative and quantitative approaches to real-world products
- Experience working within or alongside hardware development lifecycles (not software-only)
- Experience managing or partnering with external research vendors, including project scoping and execution

Tags: WHOOP Labs