Job Description

Base Pay Range

$140,000.00/yr - $170,000.00/yr

Additional Compensation Types

Annual Bonus and RSUs

Overview

Cadence Molecular Sciences has developed a cuttingedge, firstinclass cloudnative platform for molecular design, cheminformatics and data management (Orion). Everyone, from toptwenty pharmaceutical companies to emerging biotechnology startups use Orion to accelerate the pace of discovery in the areas of new therapeutics and molecular materials.

Responsibilities

We are looking for an outstanding UX/UI designer to lead the design of the Orion platform. You will partner with product, UI engineering, drugdiscovery science, marketing and senior leadership to oversee the user experience of therapeutic design. In your role, you will work with Ph.D. drugdiscovery scientists and commercial teams, as well as conduct user research and synthesize the many voices into a unified and strategic roadmap to guide our design. You will develop sketches, wireframes, highfidelity mockups, and working prototypes and iteratively refine solutions as designs are implemented to deliver creative, consistent and practical solutions. You will provide advocacy for humancentered design.

• Conduct highquality user research to develop user personas and design strategy that can be articulated in a complete user experience.
• Create and iteratively refine design solutions through mocks, wireframes and highfidelity prototypes.
• Measure product success and value delivery through analytics.
• Participate in formulating strategic product vision as it relates to user experience design.
• Coach stakeholders in key aspects of design.
• Contribute to building design resources with developers (e.g., UI component libraries).

Qualifications

• BS with a minimum of 7 years of experience OR MS with a minimum of 5 years of experience OR PhD with a minimum of 1 year of experience.
• 3+ years experience in UX/UI design at an agile, SaaS or similar organization.
• Excellent user research skills and an ability to synthesize and translate technical user research and experience into elegant visual design.
• Wellacquainted with design tools such as Balsamiq, Sketch, Figma, InVision, etc.
• A history of working with diverse stakeholders including frontend engineers, customers and product representatives.

Preferences

• Extensive experience working closely with an engineering team.
• Ability to work with PhD scientists and users.
• Understanding of molecules, chemistry, pharmaceuticals or a related field.
• A background or experience in software engineering for a STEM discipline.
• Experience working on cloudbased SAAS services.

You Want

• An opportunity to be a UX/UI designer in a fastpaced business focused on cuttingedge products directly impacting the discovery of new therapeutics.
• An exciting environment that will push and support your desire to grow and improve professionally.
• A diverse professional environment made up of scientists, engineers, commercial and thought leaders in molecular design, computational chemistry and drug discovery.
• A SiliconValley based company with a long history of technologyfirst management and rapid adoption of best practices in science and engineering.

Seniority Level

MidSenior level

Employment Type

Fulltime

Job Function

Information Technology and Science

Industries

Software Development

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