UX Designer

Location: United Kingdom, Able to work out of any of our office (Stone, Liverpool, Manchester, Cambridge)

Status: Permanent, Full Time

Package: Competitive Salary, Remote/Home Working (with one-off allowance), Flexible Working, Development & Opportunity (Personal & Technical), Private Medical (Optical & Dental options), Matching Contributory Pension, 25 Days Leave (Buy & Sell Scheme), Life Insurance, Referral Scheme, Discretionary Bonus, Benefits Hub.

Why are we hiring a UX Designer? We are hiring for this role due to company growth and expansion! This role will be a fulfilling challenge daily.

Apps in the medical field are dense and complex, and it’s our ambition to make pharmaceutical software as enjoyable to use as any other program. In this role, you’ll be faced with advanced information architecture, scientifically-minded users, and rich user flows; with support from wonderful colleagues, and a managing culture that is vocal about the value of UX in raising Instem’s scientific portfolio to modern usability standards.

You will be responsible for connecting with our Product Team members to ideate and workshop goals and product requirements. You will then shape the future of medical science by organising and carrying out user research, prototyping solutions, and presenting your conclusions in a clear and compelling manner to drive consensus with stakeholders.

Who’s Instem? Well, we’re a global provider of bespoke industry-leading software solutions and services, which facilitate the pre-clinical, and clinical phases of the drug discovery process. We have over fifteen products in our portfolio, used by over 700 pharmaceutical clients (including all the top 20!)

Instem is a unique, solutions-based organisation. We’ve doubled in size over the last 3 years through new business and product enhancement, but also via acquisition. Our 5-year growth plan is progressive, and we need you to help us reach that next level!

What’s the culture/environment like? For a global business of over 500 staff, we very much have a family feel. You’ll be part of a friendly, communal, solution based, flexible environment, where you’ll feel empowered, valued and accountable. We’ll invest in you as a person and encourage you to take part in companywide workshops for wellbeing, mental health, critical conversations, and strengths.

What are you responsible for?

• Connect and form strong working relationships with product team members across products.
• Proactively initiate collaboration and encourage good UX practice.
• Take early-stage feature goals and help product team members solidify them.
• Identify gaps in understanding, then organise and carry out research to fill those gaps.
• Sketch out solutions to complex problems, storyboard user journeys, and produce high fidelity prototypes where required.
• Create designs which harmonise with an existing UI framework.
• Encourage constructive criticism and design review cycles.
• Produce clear, concise, and visual handover materials for Product Managers and Developers.
• Adherence to our Quality Management System (QMS) to ensure all work is handled securely, professionally and diligently.
  

  To be successful in this role, you will need:

  
  

  To excel in this role, you must have strong reasoning and logical deduction skills. You must be charismatic, and passionate about proactively collaborating and problem-solving with colleagues across the business.

• Experience working in or alongside a scientific, medical, or engineering industry.
• At least 3 years of UX experience working within a team.
• Strong understanding of UX principles, methodology, and terminology.
• Strong understanding of core visual design principles.
• Proficiency with design tools like Adobe Creative Suite, Axure, and Figma.
• Basic coding experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Daily, millions of lives are improved by the Instem technologies and services that have been deployed by our clients. This is a fantastic opportunity for you to help save and prolong people’s lives, by doing what you do best!