Product Designer - 7-month contract

We're looking for a remote Product Designer to join our team. You will be reporting to the Product Design Manager. You will create new experiences that help scientists accelerate their research. You will promote user needs, navigate complex data and workflows, and bring new ideas from concept to launch while contributing to the continued growth of the design practice at BenchSci. You will also have the opportunity to receive supportive mentorship from a seasoned team of senior, lead, and principal designers!

This posting is for a 7-month contract position from mid-April to mid-November 2025, to provide paternity leave coverage.

You will:

• Create impactful experiences for our users
• Apply your skills to problem definition through to the creation of user flows, wireframes, prototypes, specifications, and visual designs
• Collaborate with product managers, scientists, and engineers, to design solutions that meet the business, technical, and user needs
• Design skillfully crafted solutions that align with brand and product design principles
• Work within established patterns, while exploring and contributing to new patterns and pattern libraries
• Understand and utilize established design guidelines and systems in the design process
• Confidently apply best practices to commonly faced design problems, ensuring solutions are sturdy
• Work with the development team to ensure designs are implemented per specifications
• Present, articulate, and explain design recommendations and decisions within teams and to stakeholders
• Deliver compelling design documents that facilitate team buy-in and execute designs as intended
• Offer thoughtful and actionable feedback that enhances design discussions. Hold other designers accountable with curiosity, and back design decisions with qualitative and quantitative data
• Demonstrate an understanding of interaction design, multi-step flows, and cross-platform flows
• Enhance our design outputs by contributing to the evolution of our operations, tools, and knowledge.

You have:

• 2+ years of end-to-end design experience on technically complex products
• A portfolio demonstrating your ability to ship impactful solutions that users love
• Deep empathy for the users that you design for, and an ability to orient others around the needs and pain points of those users
• Confidence and communication skills to convey and defend the rationale behind your design decisions to a variety of stakeholders
• A passion to understand and improve UX involving complex workflows and data
• Proficiency in Product Design Principles that guide UI decision-making
• A scientific mindset. You question your assumptions to make data-driven decisions
• A track record in intermediate design positions, working across various stages of product development from early-stage discovery to implementation
• Familiarity with design and collaboration tools (e.g. Figma, Sketch, InVision, Miro)
• A background in life sciences (asset)

Benefits and Perks: 

An engaging remote-first culture 

A great compensation package that includes BenchSci equity options

A robust vacation policy plus an additional vacation day every year

Company closures for 14 more days throughout the year

Flex time for sick days, personal days, and religious holidays

Comprehensive health and dental benefits.

Annual learning & development budget

A one-time home office set-up budget to use upon joining BenchSci

An annual lifestyle spending account allowance

Generous parental leave benefits with a top-up plan or paid time off options

The ability to save for your retirement coupled with a company match!

About BenchSci:

BenchSci's mission is to exponentially increase the speed and quality of life-saving research and development. We empower scientists to run more successful experiments with the world's most advanced, biomedical artificial intelligence software platform. 

Backed by Generation Investment Management, TCV, Inovia, F-Prime, Golden Ventures, and Google's AI fund, Gradient Ventures, we provide an indispensable tool for scientists that accelerates research at 16 top 20 pharmaceutical companies and over 4,300 leading academic centers. We're a certified Great Place to Work®, and top-ranked company on Glassdoor.

Our Culture:

BenchSci relentlessly builds on its strong foundation of culture. We put team members first, knowing that they're the organization's beating heart. We invest as much in our people as our products. Our culture fosters transparency, collaboration, and continuous learning. 

We value each other's differences and always look for opportunities to embed equity into the fabric of our work. We foster diversity, autonomy, and personal growth, and provide resources to support motivated self-leaders in continuous improvement. 

You will work with high-impact, highly skilled, and intelligent experts motivated to drive impact and fulfill a meaningful mission. We empower you to unleash your full potential, do your best work, and thrive. Here you will be challenged to stretch yourself to achieve the seemingly impossible. Learn more about our culture.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: We're committed to creating an inclusive environment where people from all backgrounds can thrive. We believe that improving diversity, equity and inclusion is our collective responsibility, and this belief guides our DEI journey. Learn more about our DEI initiatives.

Accessibility Accommodations: Should you require any accommodation, we will work with you to meet your needs. Please reach out to [email protected].

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