About You
Are you passionate about solving difficult user experience problems and identifying solutions to simplify the user journey?
Are you an advocate for the MVP approach and to “move fast and ship it”?
Do you love bringing your visual design skills together with UX design to build amazing products?
Are you looking to be a big contributor to the growth of an innovative, early-stage company looking to revolutionize the clinical trial sector?
If so, you could be a perfect fit for our team of like-minded professionals who share a common mission and passion for helping others and a desire to build a great company.
About Us
Emilie Scientific is a high-growth clinical trial technology company based in New York City that has the backing of Takeda Pharmaceuticals and BCG Digital Ventures. The company’s mission is to raise awareness of investigational therapies as treatment options for patients and make it easy to participate in clinical trials through human-centered design and data-driven technology.
The Role
Design and user experience are at the forefront of everything we do. The Product Designer is a key hire for the Product Team. You will work closely with our product managers and developers to deliver the entire product design process, from UX research to final UI designs.
Responsibilities
Expertly research, design, and prototype new user experiences based on product requirements
Gather and make sense of user goals, needs and problems
Communicate solutions visually through sketching, storyboards, flows
Craft rapid prototypes for team communication and user testing
Translate UIs across all devices and screen sizes (we use Sketch, but are open to exploring new tools)
Drive the development and communication of clear design guidelines, patterns, libraries, and assets and work closely with the development team to implement the vision
Validate designs through research, including competitive analysis and direct interaction with end-users
Be an advocate for the end users of our products and communicate the value of your work to our internal teams
Appreciate aesthetic details and a high level of production quality
Build and develop the Emilie Scientific design language
Requirements
3 years of experience as a product designer
A strong portfolio demonstrating UX and visual design principles and technical expertise
A passion for user-centered design, and eye for visual design
Collaborative and communicative by nature
Strong knowledge of Sketch, Invision or other design tools.
UX disciplines such as UX research methods, information architecture and usability testing
Visual design expertise
Experience working on a team with software developers
Applications without a design portfolio that demonstrates design principles for web and/or mobile platforms will not be considered
This is a full-time role in New York City