About the Role
We're looking for a Lead Product Designer to own the experience of software used across clinical trials and drug development. You'll craft modern, high-fidelity product experiences, build the design foundations that scale with our platform, and ground every decision in direct research with the clinicians, researchers, and subject-matter experts who use our products.
This is a high-ownership role: you'll set the bar for design quality, drive the roadmap for our design system and design debt, and turn deep domain research into competitive advantage.
We care about your portfolio, your systems thinking, and your track record of shipping research-driven design — not your degree.
Who You Are
- A craft-driven product designer. You sweat the details — spacing, hierarchy, interaction, and accessibility — and your portfolio shows high-fidelity, modern work for complex software.
- A systems thinker. You think in components and patterns, and you've built and maintained design systems that keep a product consistent as it scales.
- A researcher at heart. You're energized by talking to users and experts, and you let usability tests, A/B studies, and preference research — not opinion — settle the hard calls.
- Comfortable in a regulated, high-stakes domain. You've designed for clinical, scientific, or otherwise complex workflows where accuracy and trust matter.
- Self-directed. You set process, own outcomes end-to-end, and thrive with the autonomy of an early-stage team.
Key Responsibilities
- Craft high-fidelity, modern designs for new features across the product
- Develop and maintain a cohesive design system that scales across the product and accelerates the team
- Own and drive a roadmap for addressing design debt, prioritizing the work that most improves usability and consistency
- Facilitate repeated external interviews with subject-matter experts — discussing industry norms and emerging features, running demos to gather their reactions, and surfacing general insights and competitive intelligence
- Conduct user and usability tests both in-house and externally to validate designs against real-world workflows
- Conduct A/B tests and other user-preference studies through platforms like usertesting.com (or modern equivalents) to power data-driven design decisions
Qualifications
Required
- Experience designing software products used in clinical trials and/or drug development
- 5+ years of experience as a product designer, UX lead, and/or user researcher
- A strong portfolio demonstrating high-fidelity, modern interface design for complex products
- Hands-on experience building and maintaining design systems
- Proven ability to plan and run user research, usability testing, and preference/A/B studies
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate closely with product management, engineering, and external experts
Nice to Have
- Familiarity with clinical, regulatory, or healthcare data environments and their constraints
- Experience partnering with React-based engineering teams and contributing to component libraries
- Background facilitating SME interviews and synthesizing competitive intelligence into product direction
- Comfort working autonomously and setting design process in a fast-moving startup
Benefits
- Meaningful equity in addition to competitive cash compensation
- Employer-paid medical, dental & vision options
- Paid parental leave
- Annual learning & development budget
- Flexible PTO and a fully remote, async-friendly culture
- 401(k)
Details
- USA and Canada (Remote) position
- 40 hours weekly with occasional overtime
- 1–2 annual company travel requirements
How to Apply
Send your resume, portfolio, and a brief note about your experience designing for clinical trials or drug development — and your interest in building clinical trial technology.
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