Senior UX Designer

About ValGenesis

ValGenesis is a leading digital validation platform provider for life sciences companies. ValGenesis suite of products are used by 30 of the top 50 global pharmaceutical and biotech companies to achieve digital transformation, total compliance and manufacturing excellence/intelligence across their product lifecycle.Learn more about working for ValGenesis, the de facto standard for paperless validation in Life Sciences: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=tASq7Ld0JsQAbout the Role:We are seeking a Senior UX Designer to join our global team of UI/UX designers, researchers, and developers. This position encompasses all the elements of UX design with a special emphasis on creating a functional design system, which also includes drawing on user research. Our design team ideates solutions, structures information hierarchies, and lays out concepts. This also includes creating UI mockups and prototypes and polishing the aesthetics of the UI. All this is done across rapid iterations in response to user testing. The Senior UX Designer will be responsible for playing a vital role in driving the UI/UX initiatives and collaborating with the UX research, product, and engineering teams, and report to the Senior Director of UX.

Responsibilities :

• Translate business and technical processes into wireframes, mockups, icons, and images that lead to intuitive user experiences on mobile, web, and IoT platforms.
• Play a vital and leading role in creating the functional Design System for our entire product ecosystem. Apply platform UX style requirements such as material design, iOS Human Interface Guidelines, etc., and document and maintain UX style standards.
• Design and produce visual assets such as icons, illustrations, and photos as required. Reinforce the brand through a visual language that includes color, type, layout, and motion.
• Collaborate with UI developers to deliver interactive products as good or better than their mockups. Deliver aesthetics, power, and usability in one package.
  

Management:

• Estimate UX design effort.
• Set targets and track progress against them. Mentor the design team.
• Coordinate deliverables with product and senior management.
• Review designs and provide constructive feedback.
• Coordinate the evolution of the ValGenesis Design Language System. Innovation
• Ideate and innovate with product management and UX research teams during design sprints and whiteboarding sessions.
• Create innovative design solutions that delight users and accomplish business objectives within engineering and budget constraints.
  

Information Architecture:

• Design information hierarchies and structures that align with user models, convey information scent and facilitate information retrieval and understanding.
  

Process:

• Rapidly iterate designs based on user feedback and testing
  

Design:

• Understand and apply UX heuristics and best practices
• Understand and apply principles of contrast, repetition, alignment, and proximity in UI design.
• Understand and balance requirements for usefulness, ease of use, aesthetics, discoverability, findability, learnability, and efficiency within a single product.
  

Tools:

• Effective with pencil and paper or whiteboard design.
• Effective with tools like Figma, Adobe XD, UXPin, Miro, etc.
• Ability to produce UX assets with tools like Figma etc.
• Familiarity with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React.js/Native an asset.
  

People & Work Skills:

• High fluency in English language skills.
• Strong listening skills.
• Ability to work and collaborate cross-functionally in a fully remote setting.
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple concurrent projects and deliver on deadline
  

Experience:

• 8 or more years of professional UX design experience, with minimum 2 or more in a Team lead role.
• Experience with agile teams is an asset.
• Experience with frontend development an asset.
  

Education:

• Required Bachelor or Master degree in a UX-related area such as BFA/MFA, design, or HCI.
• UX-specific coursework or certification is preferred as an add-on
  

We're on a Mission

In 2005, we disrupted the life sciences industry by introducing the world's first digital validation lifecycle management system. ValGenesis VLMS revolutionized compliance-based corporate validation activities and has remained the industry standard.