Product Designer II

Job description

At GSK, we want to supercharge our data capability to better understand our patients and accelerate our ability to discover vaccines and medicines. The Onyx Research Data Platform organization represents a major investment by GSK R&D and Digital & Tech, designed to deliver a step-change in our ability to leverage data, knowledge, and prediction to find new medicines.

We are a full-stack shop consisting of product and portfolio leadership, data engineering, infrastructure and DevOps, data / metadata / knowledge platforms, and AI/ML and analysis platforms, all geared toward:

• Building a next-generation, metadata- and automation-driven data experience for GSK's scientists, engineers, and decision-makers, increasing productivity and reducing time spent on "data mechanics"
• Providing best-in-class AI/ML and data analysis environments to accelerate our predictive capabilities and attract top-tier talent
• Aggressively engineering our data at scale, as one unified asset, to unlock the value of our unique collection of data and predictions in real-time.

Onyx Product Management is at the heart of our mission, ensuring that everything from our infrastructure, to platforms, to end-user facing data assets and environments is designed to maximize our impact on R&D. The Product Management team partners with R&D stakeholders and Onyx leadership to develop a strategic roadmap for all customer-facing aspects of Onyx, including data assets, ontology, Knowledge Graph / semantic search, data / computing / analysis platforms, and data-powered applications.

We are seeking a talented and experienced product designer to join the product management team. As a product designer II, you will lead the product design strategy, design and development of user-centered solutions to increase the overall experience of our data products and services. You will work closely with product team and engineering teams to translate business goals and user needs into design solutions.

In this role you will

• Conduct user research, understanding scientific workflows and pain points by working with scientists and product managers to develop user-friendly and solid user experiences
• Lead the UX strategy and design process, responsible for the concept ideation, wireframes, prototypes, design sprints that address the specific needs of key personas;
• Validate product concept effectively by developing prototypes and interactive mockups with scientific customers and engineers;
• Collaborate with product managers to define requirements, prioritize features and iterate design solutions;
• Engage with users effectively, applying strategic thinking and user-centered methodology to communicate the value of key solutions;

Why you?

Qualifications & Skills:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in UI/UX Design, product design or related field.
• A significant amount of relevant design experience in UI/UX design, interaction, and product design.
• Proficiency in design tools such as Sketch, Adobe XD, Figma and others.
• Strong understanding of leveraging quantitative data to inform product and design decisions
• Familiar with agile/scrum methodologies
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to present design concepts with product managers, engineers, stakeholders, and customers.

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Experience working in complex platforms, using UX design as a tool to direct product strategy, ideally in pharma or biotech.
• Experience collaborating closely with scientific and engineering teams
• Experience working with cloud products

Closing Date for Applications: Monday 8th July 2024 (COB)

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Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose - to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together - so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns - as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it's also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves - feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.

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