UX Designer

ValGenesis now seeks to reinforce its lead position by upping our product’s design and experience. To support this direction, we’re adding a Senior UI Designer to our global team of UI/UX designers, researchers and developers. This position encompasses all elements of UI design done right. Drawing on user research, our design team ideates solutions, structures information hierarchies, layouts concepts, creating UI mockups and prototypes, and polish the aesthetics of the UI. All this is done across rapid iterations in response to user testing. The Sr. UI Designer will be responsible for playing a vital role towards driving the UI/UX initiatives and collaborate with the UX designers, product, and engineering teams, and report to the Senior Director of UX.

**Responsibilities**:
**Design**
- Translate wireframes into designs, mockups, icons, and images that lead to intuitive user experiences on mobile, web, and IoT platforms.
- Play a vital role in creating the functional Design System for our entire product ecosystem.
- Design and produce visual assets such as icons, illustrations, and photos as required.
- Reinforce the brand through a visual language that includes color, type, layout, and motion.
- Collaborate with UX developers to deliver interactive products as good or better than their mockups.
- Deliver aesthetics, power, and usability in one package.

**Management**
- Estimate design effort.
- Set targets and track progress against them.
- Mentor the design team.
- Coordinate deliverables with product and senior management.
- Review designs and provide constructive feedback.

**Innovation**
- Ideate and innovate together with product management and UX research teams during design sprints and whiteboarding sessions.
- Create innovative design solutions that delight users and accomplish business objectives within engineering and budget constraints.

**Process**

Rapidly iterate designs based on user feedback and testing.

**Requirements**:
**Design Skills**
- Understand and balance requirements for usefulness, ease of use, aesthetics, discoverability, findability, learnability, and efficiency within a single product.

**Tooling**
- Effective with pencil and paper or whiteboard design.
- Effective with tools like Figma, Adobe XD, Miro, etc.
- Ability to produce design assets with tools like Figma, Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator etc.
- Experience in UX Design is a big plus
- Familiarity with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React.js/Native an asset.

**People & Work Skills**
- High fluency in English language skills.
- Strong listening skills.
- Ability to work and collaborate cross-functionally in a fully remote setting.
- Ability to prioritize and manage multiple concurrent projects and deliver on deadline.

**Experience**
- 8 or more years of professional UX design experience, with two or more as a lead.
- Experience with agile teams is an asset.
- Experience with frontend development an asset.

**Education**
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a design related area.
- UI/UX-specific coursework or certification is preferred but not required.

**We’re on a Mission**

In 2005, we disrupted the life sciences industry by introducing the world’s first digital validation lifecycle management system. ValGenesis VLMS® revolutionized compliance-based corporate validation activities and has remained the industry standard.

Today, we continue to push the boundaries of innovation ― enhancing and expanding our portfolio beyond validation with an end-to-end digital transformation platform. We combine our purpose-built systems with world-class consulting services to help every facet of GxP meet evolving regulations and quality expectations.

**The Team You’ll Join**
- Our customers’ success is our success. We keep the customer experience centered in our decisions, from product to marketing to sales to services to support. Life sciences companies exist to improve humanity’s quality of life, and we honor that mission.
- We work together. We communicate openly, support each other without reservation, and never hesitate to wear multiple hats to get the job done.
- We think big. Innovation is the heart of ValGenesis. That spirit drives product development as well as personal growth. We never stop aiming upward.
- We’re in it to win it. We’re on a path to becoming the number one intelligent validation platform in the market, and we won’t settle for anything less than being a market leader.

**How We Work**

Our Chennai and Bangalore offices are onsite, 5 days per week. We believe that in-person interaction and collaboration fosters creativity, and a sense of community, and is critical to our future success as a company.

ValGenesis is an equal opportunity employer that makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. Our goal is to have the best-qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender