BioRender is hiring a
Senior Product Designer

Summary

The job description is for a Product Designer at BioRender, a company that provides web-based graphics communication products for scientists. The role involves designing new products and product experiments to increase user engagement, retention, and drive business outcomes. The ideal candidate should have a graphic/visual design background and a science background is a plus but not required.

Requirements

• In a perpetual pursuit to understand our users and customers and design delightful user experiences that drive business outcomes (e.g. revenue, sign-ups, retention)
• Uses both qualitative (user research) and quantitative (analytics) data to help make product and design decisions
• Extremely good at finding creative ways to reduce time to learn and validate product ideas and design approaches with minimal engineering effort
• Seen as an expert in nearly all user personas and their workflows within your pillar. Confidently and intuitively prioritizes user needs based on user context. Builds trusting relationships with users. Creates opportunities for cross-functional peers to empathize with users
• Leads qualitative user research on large, ambiguous initiatives
• Actively helps define the Growth team’s vision and how to execute it. Seen as an expert in  the product

Responsibilities

• Become an expert on the user, different personas, usage behaviors, BioRender products and opportunities and our space / market within the first 90 days
• Partner with the Growth leadership triad to determine the highest ROI opportunities and the optimal investments allocation to create a sustained lift in key business metrics
• Own the end-to-end design strategy and user experience across the Growth portfolio
• Design iterative product experiments or new features that increase user engagement and retention, e.g. find the smallest viable way to test new features or experiences that ultimately decrease churn in our user base
• Design ‘free tools’ or ‘sidecar products’ for scientists that increase brand awareness and drive new user acquisition
• Optimize signup, onboarding and upgrade funnels, and own pricing and packaging experience + experimentation
• Contribute to the overall product strategy at BioRender. Consistently reevaluate the roadmap based on user feedback, industry trends, company objectives and product strategy
• Be an active member of the BioRender Design team who critiques and drives continuous evolution of the overall design and UX of our product and our design practices

Preferred Qualifications

• Graphic/visual design background is a plus
• Science background is a plus but not required!

Benefits

• We are mission-driven, and work collaboratively towards our shared vision of improving scientific communication and accelerating scientific discovery: BioRender figures have appeared in more than 54,000 publications!
• It’s a product that users love! We have a world-class NPS and a community of loyal fans
• We are in the top quartile for profitability and year-over-year revenue growth, with users in 200+ countries
• BioRender is an equal opportunity employer, and an inclusive hiring process and work environment is a part of our DNA
• We’re remote-first and have team members across Canada and the United States. A physical office in Toronto is available, but you have the flexibility to work from anywhere
• We’re backed by top investors, accelerators, and some of the most successful life science entrepreneurs and philanthropists in the world including Y Combinator, Malala Fund founders, and Fifty Years VC
• We are committed to building a warm, inclusive, and diverse environment. Check out how we make sure our employees come first