Product Designer

Summary

Join BenchSci as a remote Product Designer for a 7-month contract position (mid-April to mid-November 2025), covering paternity leave. You will create impactful user experiences for scientists, collaborating with various teams to design and implement solutions. This role requires 2+ years of end-to-end design experience on complex products and a strong portfolio. You will work with established design guidelines while contributing to new patterns and libraries. Mentorship from senior designers is available. BenchSci offers a remote-first culture and comprehensive benefits.

Requirements

• 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)

Responsibilities

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

A background in life sciences

Benefits

• 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!