Lead Product Designer (Remote)

Location: Hybrid or Remote

Medidata follows a hybrid office policy in which employees who are hired for an in-person position are expected to work on site a certain number of days per week in accordance with Company policy.

About our Company:

Medidata is powering smarter treatments and healthier people through digital solutions to support clinical trials. Celebrating 25 years of ground-breaking technological innovation across more than 36,000 trials and 11 million patients, Medidata offers industry-leading expertise, analytics-powered insights, and one of the largest clinical trial data sets in the industry. More than 1 million users trust Medidata's seamless, end-to-end platform to improve patient experiences, accelerate clinical breakthroughs, and bring therapies to market faster. Discover more at www.medidata.com.

About the role:

Medidata is at the forefront of digital transformation in life sciences, and our platform is critical to accelerating the delivery of new medicines to patients. This Lead Product Designer role is for a strategic individual contributor who will define the future of how our customers including Clinical Data Managers, Biostatisticians, and Study Builders work with clinical data. You will move beyond incremental fixes to reimagine complex workflows, making the process of building clinical trials more intuitive, efficient, and scalable. You will be the design voice, influencing the roadmap, design system evolution, and overall strategy in one of the most critical areas of our platform.

Reporting to a Senior Manager of Product Design, you'll collaborate with colleagues to design UI components, interactive prototypes, and production-ready assets, and influence our design culture. Important to your success in this role will mentor other designers through mastery of craft, knowledge of best practices, and the ability to frame product needs into design problems. You will set the bar for design quality, guiding and approving the work of designers and writers across the team while modeling transparency, and inclusivity.

This is a position for someone who succeeds at the intersection of craft, collaboration, and new ideas.

Responsibilities:

• Create user interface elements, components and patterns, produce interactive prototypes and assets to be used in production, design presentations, and marketing collateral. You will refine design solutions and work with other designers to finalize solutions
• Facilitate user research, workshops, and design experiments, and translate insights into relevant design requirements
• Work with partners and represent the design perspective in discussions to ensure the voice of the customer and design strategy are embedded in decision-making
• Align team efforts with organizational goals and communicate a compelling product vision
• Use Figma and other tools to deliver design artifacts such as user journey maps, service blueprints, and accessible, modular designs
• Stay current with best practices, trends, and patterns for our platform

Qualifications:

• Experience solving complex design challenges by translating requirements into impactful solutions
• Integrate research and data into your design process and an understanding of continuous discovery methodologies
• Advanced public speaking, presenting, and group facilitation skills
• Experience designing and implementing pixel-perfect components for design systems and high fidelity prototypes for enterprise SaaS applications
• Experience aligning partners and executive leaders to achieve a strategic vision through storytelling, persuasion, and a human-centered approach
• Experience guiding and coaching junior and mid-level designers, promoting a culture of growth and learning
• Can balance high-level strategic planning, connecting team efforts to organizational goals and broader ecosystem opportunities
• Experience influencing product strategies, driving innovation in ambiguous spaces, and problem-framing with a creative approach
• Experience working with international or multilingual partners, products, and users
• Experience designing for Generative AI, machine learning, or other new technologies

Education & Experience:

• 8+ years of experience designing on a UX team at an enterprise-level SaaS organization or similar experience
• Bachelor or Master's degree in Human Factors, User Experience Design, HCI, Information Science, or related discipline

If you're strategic and an expert craftsperson, we'd love to hear from you!

As with all roles, Medidata sets ranges based on a number of factors including function, level, candidate expertise and experience, and geographic location.

The salary range for positions that will be physically based in the NYC Metro Area is $135,000-180,000.

The salary range for positions that will be physically based in the California Bay Area is $141,750-189,000.

The salary range for positions that will be physically based in the Boston Metro Area is $132,750-177,000.

The salary range for positions that will be physically based in Texas or Ohio is $118,500-158,000.

The salary range for positions that will be physically based in all other locations within the United States is $120,750-161,000.

Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Medidata provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work. Most sales positions are eligible for a commission on the terms of applicable plan documents, and many of Medidata's non-sales positions are eligible for annual bonuses. Medidata believes that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most and provides best-in-class benefits, including medical, dental, life and disability insurance; 401(k) matching; unlimited paid time off; and 10 paid holidays per year.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

In order to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all individuals, employment decisions at Medidata are based on merit, qualifications and abilities. Medidata is committed to a policy of non-discrimination and equal opportunity for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or medical or common conditions related to pregnancy or childbirth), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, familial status, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, veteran status, military service, application for military service, genetic information, receipt of free medical care, or any other characteristic protected under applicable law. Medidata will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities, in accordance with applicable law.

Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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Compensation for the role will be commensurate with experience. The total expected compensation range will be between $120750 and $161000, representing the base salary (or annualized salary based on estimated hourly compensation) and target bonus.