Work ScheduleStandard (Mon-Fri)
Environmental ConditionsOffice
Job Description
At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life – enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide you with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies.
With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future.
We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated User Experience Designer (mid level or Senior level) to join our clinical innovation teams at PPD.
In this role, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including designers, engineers and product managers, to create intuitive and engaging user interfaces. Leveraging your expertise in user research, interaction design, and front-end development, you will ensure a seamless and enjoyable user experience. You will also be a mentor and lead other UX designers in the execution of the product roadmap.
We are looking for a user-experience (UX) designer able to understand our business requirements and technical limitations, as well as be responsible for conceiving and conducting user research, interviews and surveys, and translating them into sitemaps, user flows, customer journey maps, wireframes, mockups and prototypes. Along with the product manager, the UX designer will also be expected to design the overall functionality of the product, and to ensure a great user experience, iterate upon it in accordance with user-testing.
Your responsibilities will include designing innovative experiences based on user needs for a range of customer-facing products, collaborating with project teams and engineering to be the voice of the user. You will also play a crucial role in crafting brilliant software designs and participating in an Agile/SCRUM setting to meet and exceed customer expectations.
Responsibilities:
- Lead user interface design by leveraging user research, interviews, workshops, user flows, prototyping, and visual design techniques.
- Rapidly visualize ideas through wireframes and prototypes for software applications/products.
- Present your ideas persuasively to key stakeholders, including product owners, architects, and engineers.
- Maintain documentation throughout the design process, including detailed user flows, information architecture, storyboards, wireframes, and color schemes.
- Develop a system to ensure a consistent user experience and allow our product to scale efficiently over time.
- Stay abreast of emerging trends, tools, and technologies to push creativity and innovation in our work.
- Provide mentorship to other UX designers and add to to shared knowledge and best practices within the team
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in applied computer science, Computer Science, or a related field of study or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification
- Previous enterprise application/UI/UX development experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 5-7 years’ experience).
- Working knowledge of UX tools for design, prototyping, and collaboration, such as Sketch, InVision, Sigma, Adobe, Zeplin, Storybook, Azure, Miro, and Mural.
- Familiarity with React JS, .NET, C# and CosmosDB is a plus
- In some cases an equivalency, consisting of appropriate education, training, and/or directly related experience will be considered sufficient for an individual to meet the requirements of the role.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Ability to create design artifacts for user journeys, wireframes, prototypes, and detailed UI designs.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills.
- Knowledge of Life Sciences systems a plus
- Experience working with product managers to build AI products in the health care sector
- Experience in Agile/Scrum methodologies and project management
- Deep technical knowledge and experience working in a data-focused organization
- Flexible with changing direction and opposing priorities
- Client focused approach
- A solid grasp of user-centered design (UCD), planning and conducting user research, user testing, A/B testing, rapid prototyping, heuristic analysis, usability and accessibility concerns.
- Exceptional communication skills in English (written and oral), with a consistent record of building strong relationships
- Tight-knit collaborative skills to work effectively with global cross-functional teams
- Strong commitment to quality and attention to detail, with a focus on delivering high-quality software products
Management Role:
No management responsibility
PPD values the health and well-being of our employees. We support and encourage individuals to create a healthy and balanced environment where they can thrive. Below is listed the working environment/requirements for this role:
- Able to communicate, receive, and understand information and ideas with diverse groups of people in a comprehensible and reasonable manner.
- Able to work upright and stationary for typical working hours.
- Ability to use and learn standard office equipment and technology with proficiency.
- Able to perform successfully under pressure while prioritizing and handling multiple projects or activities.
- May require as-needed travel (0-20%).
The annual salary range estimated for this position is $90,000 – $150,000 USD. This position will also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. Actual compensation will be confirmed in writing at the time of offer.
Benefits
We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus, healthcare, and a range of employee benefits. Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization, and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation!
Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Watch as our colleagues explain 5 reasons to work with us. As one team of 100,000+ colleagues, we share a common set of values – Integrity, Intensity, Innovation and Involvement – working together to accelerate research, solve complex scientific challenges, drive technological innovation and support patients in need. #StartYourStory with PPD, part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, where diverse experiences, backgrounds and perspectives are valued.
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