Lead UX Designer

IDBS is a leading global provider of advanced software for research and development organizations to securely capture, manage, share, and exploit structured and unstructured data. IDBS’ software platform powers process design and execution while delivering deep insights that drive innovation. By enabling our customers to deliver high-quality therapeutics to patients faster and more cost effectively, IDBS is accelerating biopharmaceutical development into the digital age. Our customers trust us with their data so they can get back to what they do best: science that betters lives.

IDBS is proud to work alongside a community of nine fellow Danaher Life Sciences companies. Together, we’re pioneering the future of science and medicine, developing products that enable researchers in the fight to save lives.

Are you a passionate User Experience (UX) Designer with a desire to make a difference and a flair for making complex concepts accessible and intuitive?

We are seeking a Lead UX Designer, who will be responsible for guiding UX Designers and our business to apply best practices for research and design and craft the user experience for our leading biopharmaceutical lifecycle software products.

You will work closely with customers that include top-ten Biopharma companies that are innovating to create life-changing therapies. Scientists across the globe use our software everyday.

What you will be doing:

• Contribute to growing our design culture where user experience is integral to achieve business goals and product outcomes that delight our customers

• Ensure the voice of our users is at the heart of everything we do by developing deep data driven user insight and understanding

• Manage priorities, deadlines and deliverables, gather requirements, map user workflows, prototype solutions, and apply and maintain design systems

• Rapidly design and prototype solutions (wireframes, workflows, prototypes, journeys) and use them to generate understand and drive delivery within product teams

• Mentor and grow designers and researchers, helping to develop and refine their skills

Here is what success in this role looks like :

• You will relish the opportunity to work collaboratively from problem to delivered solution.

• Experience with product experimentation methodologies, lean design and ways to measure success.

• Competency in obtaining requirements/understanding user’s needs using UX testing, product analytics, surveys, interviews, data analysis, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, and workflow analysis.

• Experience of working with and maintaining design systems

• Knowledge of UI design software such as Figma, Sketch and Invision.

• The ability to show evidence of collaboration and problem-solving experience as part of a strong portfolio that showcases your design work.

• Aptitude and desire to understand complex scientific workflows and scientific customer needs where the solution is not straightforward.

This role is a hybrid position, to based out of our Woking state of the art office.

At IDBS we believe in designing a better, more sustainable workforce. We recognize the benefits of flexible, hybrid working arrangements for eligible roles and are committed to providing enriching careers, no matter the work arrangement. This position is eligible for a hybrid work arrangement in which you can work part-time at the Company location identified above and part-time remotely from your home. Additional information about this hybrid work arrangement will be provided by your interview team. Explore the flexibility and challenge that working for IDBS can provide.