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Lead Product Designer

Plasmidsaurus 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America

Onsite $150,000 - $211,000 Full-time Senior

The Lead Product Designer will own the end-to-end user experience from ordering to sequencing results. This includes establishing a design system for UI and data visualization to turn complex biological workflows into intuitive software.

Responsibilities

  • Own the end-to-end product experience from ordering through sequencing results and raise the bar on every screen you touch.
  • Establish a design system for our UI and data visualization.
  • Work with our engineers and bioinformaticians to turn complex workflows into intuitive software that makes the user think “why did this not exist before?”.

Requirements

  • A portfolio that shows range and craft.
  • A track record of operating semi-autonomously: ideally as a founding designer, senior IC, design lead, or similar role where the design decisions were yours to make and live with.
  • You can ramp fast in technical domains.

Benefits

  • Ownership and impact.
  • Your work goes directly to 70,000 scientists, including Nobel laureates, who trust Plasmidsaurus with their research.
  • A tower office in South San Francisco with bay views, state-of-the-art lab, and the occasional batch of liquid nitrogen ice cream.

Key Skills

Strong ability to synthesize user research, product requirements, and technical constraints into clear design solutions. Ability to communicate, articulate design decisions, advocate for the users in prioritization conversations, and consider feedback from product managers, engineers, and other designers. Expertise designing rich interactive applications for web and/or desktop. Adept with tools like Figma (preferred) or Adobe Creative Suite. Cross-functional collaboration Leadership Mentoring User research Usability testing A/B testing Prototyping Wireframing Design systems Agile Scrum Design thinking User-centered design

About Plasmidsaurus

We sequence whole plasmids, transcriptomes, amplicons, whole genomes, AAV, microbiomes, and colonies overnight, without the need for primers and minipreps. Plasmidsaurus is on a mission to accelerate new cures and promote a healthier planet by unlocking new levels of productivity for scientists. The company's sequencing services are used daily by thousands of innovators, including Nobel Prize winners, dynamic biotech startups, pharmaceutical companies, research labs, and DIY biohackers and have been cited in more than 2500 publications to date. Plasmidsaurus's global network of labs operates day and night to enable world-changing discoveries. Start sequencing: plasmidsaurus.com

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