Product Designer - 7-Month Contract - Remote

Overview

We're looking for a remote Product Designer to join our team. You will be reporting to the Product Design Manager. You will create new experiences that help scientists accelerate their research.

In Short

• Create impactful experiences for our users
• Apply your skills to problem definition through to the creation of user flows, wireframes, prototypes, specifications, and visual designs
• Collaborate with product managers, scientists, and engineers, to design solutions that meet the business, technical, and user needs
• Design skillfully crafted solutions that align with brand and product design principles
• Work within established patterns, while exploring and contributing to new patterns and pattern libraries
• Understand and utilize established design guidelines and systems in the design process
• Confidently apply best practices to commonly faced design problems, ensuring solutions are sturdy
• Work with the development team to ensure designs are implemented per specifications
• Present, articulate, and explain design recommendations and decisions within teams and to stakeholders
• Deliver compelling design documents that facilitate team buy-in and execute designs as intended

Requirements

• 2+ years of end-to-end design experience on technically complex products
• A portfolio demonstrating your ability to ship impactful solutions that users love
• Deep empathy for the users that you design for, and an ability to orient others around the needs and pain points of those users
• Confidence and communication skills to convey and defend the rationale behind your design decisions to a variety of stakeholders
• A passion to understand and improve UX involving complex workflows and data
• Proficiency in Product Design Principles that guide UI decision-making
• A scientific mindset. You question your assumptions to make data-driven decisions
• A track record in intermediate design positions, working across various stages of product development from early-stage discovery to implementation
• Familiarity with design and collaboration tools (e.g. Figma, Sketch, InVision, Miro)
• A background in life sciences (asset)

Benefits

• Opportunity to receive supportive mentorship from a seasoned team of senior, lead, and principal designers
• Contribute to the continued growth of the design practice at BenchSci
• Work on impactful projects that help scientists
• Flexible working environment
• Engage in a collaborative team culture