Join Us in Building the Future of Human Performance
At Viction, we're not building another health app — we're building a new category of human performance technology.
Our mission is to empower people to better understand themselves and continuously improve every aspect of their health and performance through scientifically grounded insights, intelligent coaching, and beautifully designed technology.
We believe sophisticated health science should feel simple, actionable, and inspiring. By combining biomarkers, wearable technologies, nutrition, recovery, behavioral science, and artificial intelligence into a unified platform, Viction will help individuals make better daily performance-based decisions, ultimately allowing them to realize their full potential.
We're seeking an experienced product leader who is energized by the opportunity to help define an entirely new category of human performance technology. This is a rare opportunity to shape not only a product, but the direction of a company.
The Opportunity
Product Strategy and Design are inseparable at Viction. As our Fractional Director of Product Strategy & Design, you will serve as the steward of our product vision, translating strategy into execution while ensuring every feature contributes to a cohesive, differentiated, and compelling member experience.
This is a founding product leadership opportunity. You'll work directly with our founders, advisory board, UX/UI designers, engineers, AI specialists, and domain experts to determine what we build, why we build it, and how we deliver an experience that members genuinely love.
Key Tasks & Responsibilities
What problems deserve solving
Which features matter most
Which features should wait
How features reinforce one another
What creates lasting competitive differentiation
What gets built, and why it gets built
Feature priorities, technical and business dependencies, and product sequencing
Release planning
Protection of MVP discipline while guiding long-term platform evolution
Lead product strategy and evolve the long-term product vision
Translate strategy into product roadmaps, epics, user stories, and development plans
Lead product discovery, customer research, and journey mapping
Guide UX/UI direction to create a premium consumer-grade experience
Own the end-to-end member experience across onboarding, AI coaching, scoring, education, engagement, and retention
Partner across engineering, design, AI, clinical, marketing, and leadership teams
Champion a scalable design system and exceptional product quality
Continuously validate assumptions through customer feedback and analytics
Monitor emerging trends in AI, digital health, wearables, and human performance
What You'll Own
Core Responsibilities
Education & Experience
An experienced product leader with a passion for building consumer products
Equally comfortable discussing customer psychology, UX, AI, engineering trade-offs, and business strategy
A systems thinker who thrives in ambiguity and enjoys creating clarity
A collaborative leader who inspires teams without relying on formal authority
Someone who believes every feature should have a purpose and every interaction should build trust
Consumer mobile applications
Digital health, wellness, or human performance
AI-enabled products
Wearables and connected devices
Subscription platforms
Behavior-change or coaching products
Startup or early-stage company experience
Who You Are
Preferred Experience
Certifications
- Industry related certifications are a plus
Other (Travel, Work Environment, DoD 8570 Requirements, Administrative Notes, etc.)
Build the right product, not simply adding more features
Create a product experience that feels premium, intuitive, and motivating
Translate vision into disciplined execution
Help position Viction as a category leader in human performance
Work Arrangement: 100% Remote, fractional engagement (~20 hours per week)
What Success Looks Like
Why Join Viction?
This is an opportunity to influence the direction of a company from its earliest stages. You'll have meaningful experiences, direct access to founders, the ability to shape product strategy and experience, and the satisfaction of helping build technology that can genuinely improve people's lives.
If you're energized by creating products that blend science, design, technology, and human behavior, and want to leave your fingerprint on something extraordinary, we'd love to meet you.
Computer World Services is an affirmative action and equal employment opportunity employer. Current employees and/or qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.
Computer World Services is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Computer World Services will ensure that individuals with disabilities (IWD) are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact Human Resources at [email protected].
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