Location
Chennai | India
Job description
ValGenesis now seeks to reinforce its lead position by upping our product’s user experience. To support this, we are seeking a Senior UX Designer to join our global team of UI/UX designers, researchers, and developers.
This position encompasses all the elements of UX design with a special emphasis on creating a functional design system, which also includes drawing on user research. Our design team ideates solutions, structures information hierarchies, and lays out concepts. This also includes creating UI mockups and prototypes and polishing the aesthetics of the UI. All this is done across rapid iterations in response to user testing.
The Senior UX Designer will be responsible for playing a vital role in driving the UI/UX initiatives and collaborating with the UX research, product, and engineering teams, and report to the Senior Director of UX.
Responsibilities
Design
- Translate business and technical processes into wireframes, mockups, icons, and images that lead to intuitive user experiences on mobile, web, and IoT platforms.
- Play a vital and leading role in creating the functional Design System for our entire product ecosystem.
- Apply platform UX style requirements such as material design, iOS Human Interface Guidelines, etc., and document and maintain UX style standards.
- Design and produce visual assets such as icons, illustrations, and photos as required.
- Reinforce the brand through a visual language that includes color, type, layout, and motion.
- Collaborate with UI developers to deliver interactive products as good or better than their mockups.
- Deliver aesthetics, power, and usability in one package.
Management
- Estimate UX design effort.
- Set targets and track progress against them.
- Mentor the design team.
- Coordinate deliverables with product and senior management.
- Review designs and provide constructive feedback.
- Coordinate the evolution of the ValGenesis Design Language System.
Innovation
- Ideate and innovate with product management and UX research teams during design sprints and whiteboarding sessions.
- Create innovative design solutions that delight users and accomplish business objectives within engineering and budget constraints.
Information Architecture
- Design information hierarchies and structures that align with user models, convey information scent and facilitate information retrieval and understanding.
Process
- Rapidly iterate designs based on user feedback and testing.
Requirements
Design Skills
- Understand and apply UX heuristics and best practices.
- Understand and apply principles of contrast, repetition, alignment, and proximity in UI design.
- Understand and balance requirements for usefulness, ease of use, aesthetics, discoverability, findability, learnability, and efficiency within a single product.
Tooling
- Effective with pencil and paper or whiteboard design.
- Effective with tools like Figma, Adobe XD, UXPin, Miro, etc.
- Ability to produce UX assets with tools like Figma etc.
- Familiarity with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React.js/Native an asset.
People & Work Skills
- High fluency in English language skills.
- Strong listening skills.
- Ability to work and collaborate cross-functionally in a fully remote setting.
- Ability to prioritize and manage multiple concurrent projects and deliver on deadline.
Experience
- 8 or more years of professional UX design experience, with two or more as a lead.
- Experience with agile teams is an asset.
- Experience with frontend development an asset.
Education
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a UX-related area such as BFA/MFA, design, or HCI.
- UX-specific coursework or certification is preferred but not required.
We’re on a Mission
In 2005, we disrupted the life sciences industry by introducing the world’s first digital validation lifecycle management system. ValGenesis VLMS® revolutionized compliance-based corporate validation activities and has remained the industry standard.
Today, we continue to push the boundaries of innovation ― enhancing and expanding our portfolio beyond validation with an end-to-end digital transformation platform. We combine our purpose-built systems with world-class consulting services to help every facet of GxP meet evolving regulations and quality expectations.
The Team You’ll Join
- Our customers’ success is our success. We keep the customer experience centered in our decisions, from product to marketing to sales to services to support. Life sciences companies exist to improve humanity’s quality of life, and we honor that mission.
- We work together. We communicate openly, support each other without reservation, and never hesitate to wear multiple hats to get the job done.
- We think big. Innovation is the heart of ValGenesis. That spirit drives product development as well as personal growth. We never stop aiming upward.
- We’re in it to win it. We’re on a path to becoming the number one intelligent validation platform in the market, and we won’t settle for anything less than being a market leader.
How We Work
Our Chennai and Bangalore offices are onsite, 5 days per week. We believe that in-person interaction and collaboration fosters creativity, and a sense of community, and is critical to our future success as a company.
ValGenesis is an equal opportunity employer that makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. Our goal is to have the best-qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or any other characteristics protected by local law.
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