Fueled · 1 day ago
Associate Director, Research & Design
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
8+ years expFueled is a leading digital strategy, design, and engineering agency. As an Associate Director, Research & Design, you’ll help shape how research-led design influences product development and collaborate across teams to ensure high-quality outcomes.
Consumer ApplicationsCoworkingEnterprise ApplicationsIncubatorsMobile AppsSmart ContractsVenture CapitalWeb AppsWeb DesignWeb Development
Responsibilities
Translate research into meaningful product outcomes, ensuring insights actively shape product direction, experience quality, and long-term value for users and businesses
Lead research and design decisions across engagements, balancing craft, feasibility, and impact while helping teams navigate complexity with confidence
Build trust and alignment with clients and cross-functional partners, facilitating conversations that bring product, engineering, and design together around shared goals
Strengthen Fueled’s design practice through your influence, setting a high bar for quality, curiosity, and collaboration while helping teams grow and do work they’re proud of
Step into active, complex work early, shaping research and design direction for multi-platform products used by millions
Establish clear research and design direction across key engagements, enabling teams and clients to move through ambiguity more confidently and make stronger product decisions earlier
Improve how research consistently informs product outcomes, with insights reflected in usability, experience quality, and measurable business impact
Build durable client partnerships by serving as a trusted thought partner who can guide complex conversations and align diverse stakeholders
Elevate the craft and confidence of design and research teams through mentorship, feedback, and shared standards that raise the quality of work across projects
Contribute to the ongoing evolution of Fueled’s design practice, shaping how we collaborate, research, and design as a growing, remote-first team
Qualification
Required
8–12+ years of experience in research, design, or product roles, including agency or consultancy experience and depth in user research, service design, UX/UI design, content strategy, or a related mix
Comfortable in ambiguity and skilled at creating clarity, helping teams move forward even when the path isn't obvious
Ground decisions in insight, using research, data, and lived user context to guide strategy while acting thoughtfully with incomplete information
Lead through influence, not hierarchy, building trust with designers, researchers, product partners, and clients through empathy and clear thinking
Care deeply about craft and outcomes, holding a high bar for quality while staying pragmatic about timelines, constraints, and real-world impact
Benefits
Competitive salaries and benefits
Company
Fueled
Mobile Product Studio - Incubator & Venture Fund - Startup Talent Search - Digital Marketing It is a sub-organization of Fueled.
201-500 employees
H1B Sponsorship
Fueled has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageLeadership Team
Rameet Chawla
CEO and Founder
Ryan Matzner
Co-Founder
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