Senior Product Designer

Colossyan; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the biotechnology sector seeks a Senior Product Designer to define and innovate the design of their core platform. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in UX/UI design, particularly in SaaS applications. Responsibilities include leading design projects, collaborating with product managers, and conducting user research to enhance user experience.

Benefits

Private medical insurance

Private dental insurance

Life insurance (4 x salary)

Personal development budget

Individual wellbeing budget

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Your birthday off!

Potential for real impact and career growth

Qualifications

• 5-7 years experience as a product designer (UX/UI), preferably in technical SaaS.
• Strong portfolio of user interface design, leading complex products from ideation to launch.
• Experience creating and maintaining design systems.

Responsibilities

• Ownership of user experience and design from conception to launch.
• Prototyping ideas and designing details of components and interactions.
• Conducting user research and usability testing to inform the design process.

Skills

UI Skills

User Research

Usability Testing

Prototyping

Information Architecture

Tools

Figma

Job description

Founded in 2018, Causaly’s AI platform for enterprise-scale scientific research redefines the limits of human productivity. We give humans a powerful new way to find, visualize and interpret biomedical knowledge and automate critical research workflows, accelerating solutions for some of the greatest health challenges we face.

We work with some of the world's largest biopharma companies and institutions on use cases spanning Drug Discovery, Safety and Competitive Intelligence. You can read more about how we accelerate knowledge acquisition and improve decision making in our blog posts here: Blog - Causaly

We are backed by top VCs including ICONIQ, Index Ventures, Pentech and Marathon.

The role:

At Causaly, we’re building a category defining product that transforms how our users think and decide in biomedicine. As a Senior Product Designer, we will look to you to help us bring the product vision to life.

You will be fully empowered to lead discovery efforts, and drive the product design of our core platform. You will help us design and ship the best-in-class products that help Life Sciences professionals answer the most difficult questions in a simple and elegant way. You will be not only lead design projects, but also drive innovation and progress within our design team at Causaly. You will be actively engaged in conversations around design practices, trends, and methodologies.

To be successful in this role, you will have a mix of technology fluency, excellent UI skills, and a deep passion for understanding and solving customer problems.

What you'll be doing:

• You will take ownership of user experience and design from conception to launch in partnership with product managers and engineers.

• You will be solving product problems by focusing on the best user experience while balancing company goals, design cohesion, and ease of implementation.

• You will be prototyping ideas to quickly assess their viability and designing the fine-grained details of components, interactions, and transitions.

• You will partner with product managers to define and evolve products.

• You will work closely with engineers as you build, iterate on, and ship ideas

• You will be leading efforts to maintain and contribute to our design system.

• You will be conducting user research and usability testing to gather feedback and insights that will inform the design process.

• You will act as an agent of change for the adoption of the best UX practices, processes and tools.

What we're looking for:

• 5-7 Years experience of product designer (UX/UI), preferably in technical SaaS web applications or software.

• Strong portfolio of user interface design in web SaaS applications (quality over quantity), with proven experience in leading the design of complex products and systems, from ideation to launch.

• Mastery of design and prototyping tools (Figma, etc)

• Previous experience creating, developing and maintaining design systems

• Demonstration of collaboration with product and engineering teams in an agile environment

• Comprehend complex Information Architecture, understanding structure and flow to create the optimal user experience for any given scenario

• Experience in conducting user research and usability testing, and applying insights to inform the design process.

What we'd love to see:

• Experience working in the biomedical or life sciences domain

• Working in a fast-paced startup environment

Benefits UK:

Competitive compensation package

???? Private medical insurance

Private dental insurance

Life insurance (4 x salary)

Personal development budget

Individual wellbeing budget

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Your birthday off!

Potential to have real impact and accelerated career growth as a member of an international team that's building a transformative AI product.

We are on a mission to accelerate scientific breakthroughs for ALL humankind, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and fairly consider qualified candidates without regard to race, ethnic or national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, neurodiversity, genetics, age, religion or belief, marital/civil partnership status, domestic / family status, veteran status or any other difference.