Senior Principal UX Designer, Solutions Engineering

Lead UX design strategy and vision, mentor a team of UX designers, and drive user-centered design across multiple initiatives at Roche's Computational Sciences Center of Excellence.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of the UX design strategy and vision, ensuring that design objectives align with overall product goals and business priorities.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across multiple initiatives to design cohesive solutions from ideation to implementation.
• Provide mentorship and leadership to a team of UX designers, fostering growth and maintaining high design standards across the team.
• Lead the initial design and continuous improvement of a scalable design system to ensure a consistent scientific user experience across products.
• Work closely with UI engineers to refine design processes in order to increase efficiency and ensure high-quality outcomes.
• Lead efforts to conduct user research, usability testing, and gather insights that inform design decisions.
• Advocate for the user in all aspects of the design process.
• Organize, maintain, and evolve UX design artifacts (UI elements, documentation, and guidelines) for consistency and scalability across applications.
• Ensure inclusive design practices across products by collaborating with UI teams to implement WCAG and accessibility standards.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field, with 12+ years of experience in UX design, or an advanced degree with 10+ years of experience.
• Proven experience in designing impactful products that address complex user needs and business goals.
• Experience managing, mentoring, and leading a team of designers.
• Expertise in the full UX design process, including user research, wireframing, prototyping, interaction design, and usability testing.
• Strong proficiency with design tools such as Sketch, Figma, Adobe XD, and knowledge of CSS frameworks (e.g. Tailwind CSS).
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to present ideas and rationale clearly to a variety of audiences.
• Ability to drive innovation and excellence in design by staying up to date with industry trends, emerging design technologies, standards and best practices.

Key Skills

• UX design
• user research
• wireframing
• prototyping
• interaction design
• usability testing
• Sketch
• Figma
• Adobe XD
• CSS frameworks (e.g. Tailwind CSS)
• communication skills
• innovation and excellence in design
• industry trends
• emerging design technologies
• standards and best practices

Benefits

• Discretionary annual bonus may be available based on individual and Company performance.
• This position also qualifies for the benefits detailed at the link provided below.