Product Designer, BenchSci
7 Month Temporary Contract
+ Equity
AI for biomedical research
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AI for biomedical research
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To exponentially increase the speed and quality of life-saving research by empowering scientists with the world's most advanced biomedical artificial intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- 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)
- A background in life sciences (asset)
What the job involves
- We're looking for a remote Product Designer to join our team. You will be reporting to the Product Design Manager.
- You will create new experiences that help scientists accelerate their research.
- You will promote user needs, navigate complex data and workflows, and bring new ideas from concept to launch while contributing to the continued growth of the design practice at BenchSci.
- You will also have the opportunity to receive supportive mentorship from a seasoned team of senior, lead, and principal designers!
- This posting is for a 7-month contract position from mid-April to mid-November 2025, to provide paternity leave coverage
- 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
Our take
Over the past decade, the cost of bringing a drug to market has increased exponentially. But the number of drugs approved has stayed stagnant, leading to a decline in research productivity. Through development of AI-assisted software, BenchSci has allowed scientists to rapidly compute data from scientific journals and product catalogues to dramatically reduce these inefficiencies in the R&D process.
The company offers a lateral solution to traditional, manual data analysis to allow for data leveraging. Plus an automated, comprehensive overview of existing relevant research. These methods have made BenchSci a forerunner in the drug development industry; the company's software is used by leading pharmaceutical companies.
BenchSci continues to invest in its machine learning technology, and in 2023 launched ASCEND. This is software that extracts experimental evidence from internal and external sources to help improve the hit rate of drug trials. It has also raised considerable funds, the latest of which is supporting the expansion of the platform.
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Insights
31% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
May 2023
$66.1m
SERIES D
Jan 2022
$43.9m
SERIES C
Total funding: $155.1m
Company benefits
- An engaging remote-first culture that hires the best talent from around the world
- Compensation package that includes BenchSci equity options
- Comprehensive health and dental benefits with an emphasis on mental health
- An annual Executive Health Assessment at Medcan for proactive health awareness
- Three weeks of vacation plus an additional day for every completed year
- A $2000 Annual Learning & Development budget
- Generous parental leave benefits with a top-up plan or paid time off options
- Additional time-off: 2 weeks for Winter Holiday, every other Friday in July and August, your birthday, and more!
- A $1000 work from home allowance to make your home setup perfect for you
- An Oculus Quest 2 to connect with your team members in Virtual Reality
- An executive coach for managers to assist in leading high-performing teams
- Complimentary Headspace account to support mental wellness and focus
- Complimentary genome sequencing from 23andMe to better understand your health through your DNA
Company HQ
South Core, Toronto, ON
Leadership
Dr. Elvis Wianda
(Co-Founder & Chief Data Officer)Obtained a PhD studying Health & Medical Physics at the University of Toronto before joining BenchSci.
Dr. Tom Leung
(Co-Founder & CSO)Previously held roles within the University of Toronto as a Research Assistant and Postdoctoral Fellow.
Liran Belenzon
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously co-founded and held role as CEO at companies including Standy and Biz-Coupon. Currently a CDL Associate at Creative Destruction Lab.
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