Senior Platform Designer . SOPHiA GENETICS

Design Better Podcast; Friauville; Hybrid; EUR 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Exposure to senior leadership

Job summary

Hard Problems is seeking a Senior Platform Designer to join the Platform Design & Innovation team. You’ll shape cross-team platform experiences, translate complex clinical requirements into coherent product experiences, and guide design across all application domains.

The role is hybrid, with options in Bidart, France or Rolle, Switzerland, and involves collaboration with engineering, product teams, and leadership to evolve the DDM platform. Experience in regulated health tech is essential.

Qualifications

• Experience as a senior product or platform designer in regulated environments such as HealthTech, MedTech, or scientific SaaS.
• A portfolio of shipped work showing product judgment across multiple user groups.
• Experience designing information-dense, data-heavy interfaces and complex workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead platform design across cross-team workflows and high-value DDM/ Carepath data views.
• Collaborate with engineering to translate design language into APIs, data models and scalable systems.
• Mentor junior designers and contribute to the design leadership function.

Skills

Senior platform designer

Regulated environment experience

Data-heavy interfaces

Prototype & engineering collaboration

Job description

# Senior Platform DesignerSOPHiA GENETICS, Bidart, FranceHealthcare## Why this work mattersSOPHiA GENETICS provides an AI-driven SaaS platform for genomic and radiomic analysis, enabling clinicians globally to diagnose and treat cancer and rare diseases more effectively.View the full listing and apply →Listed 21 Oct 2026Applications are handled by SOPHiA GENETICS, not by Hard Problems.## About SOPHiA GENETICSSOPHiA GENETICS is a health tech company that develops the cloud-native, AI-powered SOPHiA DDM platform to support data-driven clinical decision-making across genomics, oncology, radiomics, and real-world data. Its platform serves geneticists, pathologists, oncologists, bioinformaticians, and pharma researchers, with a mission to democratize data-driven medicine for the benefit of cancer and rare disease patients worldwide.### The roleThe Senior Platform Designer sits within the Platform Design & Innovation (PDI) team, which is responsible for how DDM evolves as a platform: cross-cutting design patterns, the design system, high-value product initiatives, and the translation of complex clinical requirements into coherent product experiences across all application teams. PDI's mandate is transversal — you do not sit within one team's scope but influence platform-level decisions across all of them. This is a senior individual contributor role with a stated path toward team leadership. The role is based in Rolle, Switzerland or Bidart, France on a hybrid schedule (2 days per week from home).### What you would do* Conduct research with expert users across the platform's range: genomics specialists (geneticists, pathologists, bioinformaticians), oncologists using Carepath for treatment decision support, and pharma researchers accessing real-world data through DataHub.* Design for appropriate complexity rather than consumer simplicity, matching the cognitive model of expert users who read variant tables and imaging reports under clinical pressure.* Balance clinical workflow fidelity with IVD regulatory constraints, including traceability, audit trail, accessibility, and interaction patterns that survive regulatory review.* Lead the design of major DDM platform workflows across the full product surface: variant triage and interpretation, oncology decision-support in Carepath, multimodal data views combining genomic and imaging signals, and DataHub experiences for clinical and pharma research users.* Define and evolve cross-surface interaction patterns that give the platform coherence: how data from different modalities is presented together, how classification decisions are recorded and traced, and how users with different expertise levels navigate the same underlying data.* Govern and evolve the DDM design system in collaboration with engineering, covering component usage, token standards, interaction primitives, and documentation.* Build interactive prototypes using whatever tooling compresses the cycle (AI-assisted code, low-code scaffolding, or hand-crafted HTML) to get something real in front of users quickly.* Run validation sessions with clinical users, oncologists, and pharma partners early and continuously, treating user research as a design input rather than a sign-off step.* Work alongside platform engineering as a peer, translating between design language (workflows, mental models, jobs-to-be-done) and engineering language (APIs, data models, performance, security).* Collaborate with Product Owners and Product Managers across application teams (HemOnc, Solid Tumor & LBx, RID, Carepath, DataHub), shaping shared vision without direct authority.* Mentor junior designers, shape team process, and build readiness for a design leadership function.### What they are looking for* A track record as a senior product or platform designer (or product manager) in regulated environments such as HealthTech, MedTech, or scientific SaaS, where users are domain experts and workflows are genuinely complex.* A portfolio of shipped work showing product judgment: hard tradeoffs, designs evolved through validation, and clear evidence that your involvement changed what got built, across multiple distinct user groups.* Experience designing information-dense, data-heavy interfaces: tables, filters, multi-step clinical or scientific workflows, and multimodal data views.* Comfort working close to code and close to product: able to author requirements and acceptance criteria, hold meaningful conversations with engineers about implementation constraints, and build prototypes beyond static mockups.* Hands-on technical experience in development or engineering and product development earlier in your career.* Genuine curiosity about clinical genomics, imaging, and real-world data; finding the complexity interesting rather than intimidating.* Grounded understanding of AI/ML in a clinical context, with experience extending AI/ML features within a regulated product.* Strong communication and influencing skills across diverse audiences: genomics experts, oncologists, pharma partners, engineers, Product Owners, and executives.### Working arrangementsThe role is hybrid, based in either Rolle, Switzerland or Bidart, France, with 2 days per week working from home. The contract is permanent, with a start date of ASAP.### Pay and benefitsSalary is not stated. Benefits vary by location. For Switzerland: sickness and accident coverage through Helsana, meal vouchers at CHF 90 per month with a partner cafeteria, free parking, a stocked coffee machine and free fruit/snacks, a volunteer-led Social Committee, and direct exposure to senior leadership at the global HQ.## DetailsLocation: Bidart, FranceOn-site or remote: HybridSalary: n/aSector: HealthcareRole: Product designSeniority: SeniorOrganisation: For-profitThis job is listed on the Hard Problems job board, but details come from the employer’s own listing and may have changed — always check the original posting.