Career
Senior Product Designer
Research & Development
United States - NY, New York
Requisition ID
540097
Location: Hybrid
Medidata follows a hybrid office policy in which employees who are hired for an in-person position are expected to work on site a certain number of days per week in accordance with Company policy.
Medidata: Powering Smarter Treatments and Healthier People
Medidata, a Dassault Systèmes company, is leading the digital transformation of life sciences, creating hope for millions of people. Medidata helps generate the evidence and insights to help pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device and diagnostics companies, and academic researchers accelerate value, minimize risk, and optimize outcomes. More than one million registered users across 2,000+ customers and partners access the world's most trusted platform for clinical development, commercial, and real-world data. Known for its groundbreaking technological innovations, Medidata has supported more than 30,000 clinical trials and 9 million study participants. Medidata is headquartered in New York City and has offices around the world to meet the needs of its customers. Discover more at www.medidata.comand follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram, and X.
Your Mission
Medidata is the leader in developing the technologies that allow our customers to get medicines to patients faster. Building on our long history of delivering world-class clinical applications to the life sciences industry, Medidata’s Product Organization is staffed with a passionate team of product experts, tackling the industry’s most difficult technical challenges in order to push the boundaries of possibility for our clients and most importantly, for patients. Together we can deliver meaningful advanced digital transformation to the industry in order to achieve our vision.
Medidata is looking for a Senior Product Designer to create first-class user experiences for clinical and commercial-grade applications for Life Science & Biotech industries. The Senior Product Designer will interact with designers, engineering, operations and product management to conduct discovery, design detailed workflows and experiences, deliver visual mockups and prototypes, and assist in user validation. This position requires a designer that has experience designing user interactions consistent with brand and visual guidelines, and within a shared design system.
Your Profile
The ideal candidate must have experience leading design within a specific product or product area. This includes seeing projects from discovery through hand-off and production. You will be responsible for:
- Adopting a user-centered approach to design
- Staying current on best practices, trends and patterns for consumer and enterprise applications
- Assisting in validating product ideas on actual users and customers by participating in discovery workshops and creating design prototypes
- Translating research and testing findings into actionable requirements
- Thriving in a highly collaborative, fast-paced, agile environment
- Working closely with product management, designers, engineers, and data scientists to deliver first-class user interfaces
Your Competencies
- In-depth understanding of UX design and research methods
- Ability to create personas, user journey maps, service blueprints, etc. based on user research
- Ability to interpret business and functional requirements from a human-centered, as opposed to feature-centered, perspective
- Strong understanding of a systems-thinking approach to design
- Excellent collaborator with other designers, product managers, engineers, and stakeholders
- Excellent conceptual and problem-solving skills
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills
- Self-motivated to prioritize and manage workload
Your Education & Experience
- Minimum 5 years of experience working in a high-tech UX team in a fast paced, multidisciplinary environment
- Bachelor or Master's degree in Human Factors, User Experience Design, HCI, Information Science or related discipline
- Must include a web-based portfolio of past User Experience Design projects
Desired skills
- Experience using and contributing to design systems
- Experience working in an agile environment
- Experience building usable, accessible, responsive, and modular designs
- Experience with designing, running, and analyzing usability tests and design experiments
- Proficiency with standard design and prototyping tools (Figma, Sketch, InVision, Axure, etc.)
- Strong understanding of continuous discovery and involving customers in the design process
- Experience providing design guidance and mentorship to junior designers
- Experience designing for enterprise SaaS applications
Nice to have
- Experience working with large-scale, complex design systems
- Familiarity with big data and dashboard design
- Experience working with international or multilingual products and users
- Experience with emerging technologies, such Gen AI or machine learning, and their potential impacts on product design
- Knowledge of the pharma and life sciences industry
As with all roles, Medidata sets ranges based on a number of factors including function, level, candidate expertise and experience, and geographic location.
The salary range for positions that will be physically based in the NYC Metro Area is $114,750-153,000
The salary range for positions that will be physically based in the California Bay Area is $121,500-162,000.
The salary range for positions that will be physically based in the Boston Metro Area is $113,250-151,000.
The salary range for positions that will be physically based in Texas or Ohio is $101,250-135,000.
The salary range for positions that will be physically based in all other locations within the United States is $102,750-137,000.
Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Medidata provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work. Most sales positions are eligible for a commission on the terms of applicable plan documents, and many of Medidata's non-sales positions are eligible for annual bonuses. Medidata believes that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most and provides best-in-class benefits, including medical, dental, life and disability insurance; 401(k) matching; unlimited paid time off; and 10 paid holidays per year.
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