Founding Product Designer — Biotech AI Platform

Eli Lilly and Company; South San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

Eli Lilly and Company is seeking a founding Product Designer to own how an AI-driven biotech SaaS product works and feels for external biotech partners. You will shape the problem space, ensure a compelling user experience, and build a scalable design system while collaborating closely with product, engineering, and data science teams.

As the senior designer, you will set the design bar, mentor peers, and work within Lilly’s enterprise framework to deliver a trusted, scalable solution that helps

Qualifications

• 8+ years as a product designer with a track record of shipping software used by real external customers.
• Demonstrated experience as a senior or staff designer on a small team, not just on a large one.
• Portfolio showing end-to-end work from problem framing to shipping the craft.

Responsibilities

• Clarify the problem space by interviewing users and mapping workflows to define who we’re building for and what they need.
• Be the strongest user voice on the team and push back when the spec is wrong.
• Design the product—flow, interaction, and visual craft—build the design system, and ship working design.
• Mentor designers and design-adjacent peers as the team grows and hiring is planned.
• Operate effectively inside Lilly’s enterprise infrastructure, collaborating with engineering and data science within regulatory constraints.

Skills

Portfolio end-to-end design

Design leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

AI/ML design tools

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Design, HCI, or related field

Tools

AI tools

Job description

Eli Lilly and Company is seeking a founding Product Designer to own how an AI-driven biotech SaaS product works and feels for external biotech partners. You will shape the problem space, ensure a compelling user experience, and build a scalable design system while collaborating closely with product, engineering, and data science teams.

As the senior designer, you will set the design bar, mentor peers, and work within Lilly’s enterprise framework to deliver a trusted, scalable solution that helps