Senior Manager, UI/UX

This role encompasses all aspects of UX design, with a strong emphasis on developing and maintaining a cohesive, functional design system informed by user research. Our design team is at the forefront of innovation, brainstorming creative solutions, structuring intuitive information hierarchies, and conceptualizing user experiences. This includes crafting detailed UI mockups, building interactive prototypes, and refining the visual design for polished aesthetics. Our process is highly iterative, driven by continuous user testing and feedback.

The Senior Manager, UI/UX will play a pivotal role in shaping UI/UX strategies, collaborating closely with UX research, product management, and engineering teams. Reporting to the Senior Director of UX, you will be instrumental in ensuring design excellence across all initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Translate business and technical processes into wireframes, mockups, icons, and images that lead to intuitive user experiences on mobile, web, and IoT platforms.
• Play a vital and leading role in creating the functional Design System for our entire product ecosystem.
• Apply platform UX style requirements such as material design, iOS Human Interface Guidelines, etc., and document and maintain UX style standards.
• 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 UI developers to deliver interactive products as good or better than their mockups.
• Estimate UX 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.
• Coordinate the evolution of the ValGenesis Design Language System.
• Ideate and innovate 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.
• Design information hierarchies and structures that align with user models, convey information scent and facilitate information retrieval and understanding.
  

• Understand and apply UX heuristics and best practices.
• Understand and apply principles of contrast, repetition, alignment, and proximity in UI design.
• Understand and balance requirements for usefulness, ease of use, aesthetics, discoverability, findability, learnability, and efficiency within a single product.
• Effective with pencil and paper or whiteboard design.
• Effective with tools like Figma, Adobe XD, UXPin, Miro, etc.
• Familiarity with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React.js/Native an asset.
• 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.
• 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
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a UX-related area such as BFA/MFA, design, or HCI.
• 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 identity, national origin, disability, or any other characteristics protected by local law.