UX Designer

About the Position 

As a UX Designer at Flywheel, you'll join our busy and growing UX team to support our best-in-class biomedical research platform. You'll help define end-to-end user experiences, from researching the problem space to shaping the innovative UI design that brings the product to life. You’ll tackle complex, data-heavy customer workflows and craft them into intuitive, accessible interfaces for our customers around the globe. 

Environment  

We're highly responsive to customer needs and constantly strive to positively contribute to the biomedical and life sciences communities we serve. We value collaborative people with a strong drive to simplify complex problems, a solid foundation in UX design heuristics, and a customer-centered approach to designing software for people. We also appreciate self-motivated, creative individuals who work well in a collaborative environment – constantly generating and sharing new ideas and solutions with the team.

Flywheel has a comprehensive benefits package and encourages a balanced work life and home life. 

Responsibilities

• Create design assets for our web application. This includes wireframes, low to high-fidelity visual design mockups, prototypes, and supporting design specifications and documentation.
• Collaborate closely with engineering and product management to ensure your proposed designs meet user needs and are feasible to implement.
• Conduct user research with stakeholders and end-users to help shape your designs.
• Be the voice of our end-users, ensuring they are represented at every step in the design process and that we are correctly elevating their needs and pain points.
• Effectively speak to process, design goals, and team vision as a strong representative and advocate for the UX Design team.
• Stay up to date with the latest design patterns, trends, and tools.

What Would Make You a Great Fit

• BA/BFA degree in HCI or design-related field, emphasizing user experience, interaction design, visual design, psychology, or related field.
• 3 or more years working as a UX or Product Designer.
• A portfolio showcasing your processes and deliverables. We are interested in learning how you approach problems and think through them. The portfolio should demonstrate UXUI design best practices, responsive and interaction design, and conducting user research and how they informed your designs.
• Some experience conducting usability research such as moderated/unmoderated usability testing, user interviews, surveys, and other research methods.
• Fluency with modern UX design tools such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD. We use Figma.
• You are a curious, humble, self-motivated, and creative individual who thrives in a collaborative yet dynamic and sometimes ambiguous startup working environment. 

Do you feel like you don't have everything that's listed above? If you have some of the skills and experience that we’re looking for and are willing to use your talent to learn the rest, we encourage you to apply!

About Us

Flywheel is the leading research data platform that's transforming the way biomedical and imaging data are managed at leading life sciences, clinical, and academic institutions globally.

Flywheel provides a comprehensive research data solution with all the tools needed for curation, imaging processing, machine learning workflows, and secure collaboration. By leveraging cloud scalability and automating research workflows, Flywheel helps organizations scale research data and analysis, improve scientific collaboration, and accelerate discoveries.

Company Values

GO STEADY WITH LEVITY

The alchemy of effective teamwork happens when we each take ownership of both the menial and the magical every day. We’re serious, but never stuffy. We keep our cool under pressure because we assume best intentions and maintain perspective. This allows for true teamwork, with a dash of irreverence.

WORK BETTER TOGETHER 

We are tenacious and united in our pursuit of solving our customers’ biggest challenges, and no challenge is too big. Diverse backgrounds across our team make us more effective as we listen, absorb, collaborate, and iterate to innovate.

FIGURE IT OUT

We’re obsessed with uncovering the why of any given. Having an open mind allows us to be quick to fail and quick to adapt. We relentlessly pursue continual improvement through learning and imagining new possibilities.

GIVE A SHIT

We’re fueled by grit, boundless energy, and a deep belief that we are doing cool shit. We don’t hesitate to stand up and speak out because we trust that through tough, honest discourse we can drive change and make a real difference for our customers and our mission.