Job Description

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life – enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies.

With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future.

We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated User Experience (UX) Designer to join our innovative clinical development teams. In this role, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including designers, developers, and product managers, to create intuitive and engaging user interfaces. Tapping into your expertise in user research, interaction design, and front-end development, you will ensure a flawless and enjoyable user experience.

This is a remote position for candidates on the East Coast US

As a User Experience Engineer, you will work alongside other design team members, product owners, and collaborators to create dynamic customer experiences that drive measurable business impact. Your responsibilities will include designing innovative experiences based on user needs for a range of customer-facing products, collaborating with project teams and engineering to be the voice of the user. You will also play a crucial role in crafting brilliant software designs and participating in an Agile/SCRUM setting to meet and exceed customer expectations.

Responsibilities:

• Lead user interface design by leveraging user research, interviews, workshops, user flows, prototyping, and visual design techniques.
• Rapidly visualize ideas through wireframes and prototypes for software applications/products.
• Present your ideas persuasively to key collaborators, including product owners, architects, and engineers.
• Maintain documentation throughout the design process, including detailed user flows, information architecture, storyboards, wireframes, and color schemes.
• Develop a system to ensure a consistent user experience and allow our product to scale efficiently over time.
• Stay abreast of emerging trends, tools, and technologies to push creativity and innovation in our work.
• Provide mentorship to other UX designers and contribute to shared knowledge and best practices within the team

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in applied computer science, Computer Science, or a related field of study or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification
• Previous enterprise application/UI/UX development experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 5 years’ experience).
• Solid understanding of UX tools for design, prototyping, and collaboration, such as Sketch, InVision, Sigma, Adobe, Zeplin, Storybook, Azure, Miro, and Mural.
• Familiarity with React JS, .NET, C# and CosmosDB is a plus
• In some cases an equivalency, consisting of appropriate education, training, and/or directly related experience will be considered sufficient for an individual to meet the requirements of the role.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to create design artifacts for user journeys, wireframes, prototypes, and detailed UI designs.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills.
• Knowledge of Life Sciences systems and business is a plus
• Experience in Agile/Scrum methodologies and project management
• Deep technical knowledge and experience working in a data-focused organization
• Flexible and comfortable with changing direction and competing priorities
• Client focused approach
• Exceptional communication skills in English (written and oral), with a consistent record of building strong relationships
• Tight-knit collaboration skills to work effectively with global cross-functional teams
• Strong commitment to quality and attention to detail, with a focus on delivering high-quality software products

Management Role:

No management responsibility

PPD values the health and well-being of our employees. We support and encourage individuals to create a healthy and balanced environment where they can thrive.  Below is listed the working environment/requirements for this role:

• Able to communicate, receive, and understand information and ideas with diverse groups of people in a comprehensible and reasonable manner.
• Able to work upright and stationary for typical working hours.
• Ability to use and learn standard office equipment and technology with proficiency.
• Able to perform successfully under pressure while prioritizing and handling multiple projects or activities.
• May require as-needed travel (0-20%).

The salary range estimated for this position is $85,000 – $130,000 USD. This position will also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. Actual compensation will be confirmed in writing at the time of offer.

We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our US colleagues can count on, which generally includes:

• A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan
• A wellness program, and valuable health incentive opportunities for company contributions to a Health Reimbursement Accounts (HRAs) or Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Tax-advantaged savings and spending accounts and commuter benefits
• Employee assistance program
• At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, short- and long-term disability, and volunteer time off in accordance with company policy
• Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan