Beacon Biosignals is a Boston-based company that combines wearable EEG and advanced AI to capture and analyze real-world neural data to advance brain health.
<div class="content-intro"><p>Beacon Biosignals is transforming precision medicine for the brain, from clinical development to clinical care. For Life Sciences partners, we offer the leading at-home EEG platform for clinical development of novel therapeutics for neurological, psychiatric, and sleep disorders. Our Diagnostics business is building the most comprehensive at-home platform for precision diagnostics, combining EEG and cardiopulmonary signals to deliver reimbursable assessments for sleep and central nervous system disorders. Together, we're changing the way patients are diagnosed and treated for any disorder that affects brain physiology.</p></div><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Beacon is seeking a Senior Manager, Engineering to lead our Mobile Apps team and help build the patient-facing experiences at the front line of our mission. The apps your team owns are how patients interact with our EEG headbands and other wearables in the real world, capturing high-fidelity neurological data in clinical trials and at-home diagnostic settings.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">You'll manage seven direct reports, including engineers and a product manager, with one additional IC hire planned this year. You'll partner closely with product design, device engineering, and other Platform teams to deliver exceptional mobile experiences that meet both user needs and the rigorous standards of a regulated health tech environment. This role reports directly to Beacon's VP of Platform.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Beacon's robust asynchronous work practices ensure a first-class remote work experience, with in-person office hubs available in Boston and New York. The team includes members across the US and Europe, so we prefer candidates based in the US Eastern time zone.</span></p> <h2><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">What success looks like</span></h2> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">As Senior Manager, Engineering at Beacon, you'll:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Manage and develop a team of engineers and a product manager, coaching them through meaningful growth opportunities and guiding them through technical and professional challenges.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Own the team's technical direction across our React Native cross-platform apps and our native iOS (Swift) and Android (Kotlin) BLE device SDKs, making sound architectural tradeoffs and staying current on platform advancements.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Drive a clear, outcome-oriented roadmap aligned with Beacon's company objectives, integrated with adjacent platform teams, and communicated transparently to stakeholders across the organization.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Own project management end-to-end: defining scope, managing timelines, setting expectations internally and externally, and keeping cross-functional partners informed of progress and changes.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Cultivate a high-functioning team culture where engineers learn collaboratively, treat setbacks as improvement opportunities, and hold each other to a high bar for quality and accountability.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Balance short-term delivery with long-term platform health, preventing both over-engineering and unmanageable technical debt.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Establish and refine team processes that support efficient execution and sustainable engineering practices within a regulated product environment.</span></li> </ul> <h2><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">What your team works on</span></h2> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Your team builds and maintains the React Native apps and native BLE SDKs through which patients pair, configure, and use our Waveband EEG headband. Recent and ongoing initiatives include building out support for new BLE wearable devices, improving in-app signal quality validation, streamlining onboarding and compliance tracking for clinical trial participants, and improving the end-to-end experience for Home Sleep Test diagnostic patients.</span></p> <h2><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">What you'll bring</span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A proven track record managing mid-sized mobile or consumer-facing engineering teams, with clear examples of how your leadership influenced both team health and product outcomes.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Strong mobile engineering depth sufficient to guide architectural tradeoffs across React Native, Swift, and Kotlin — including hardware-adjacent concerns like BLE, sensor i