Sr. UX/UI Designer

(ID: 2025-0981)

Axle is a bioscience and information technology company that offers advancements in translational research, biomedical informatics, and data science applications to research centers and healthcare organizations nationally and abroad. With experts in biomedical science, software engineering, and program management, we focus on developing and applying research tools and techniques to empower decision-making and accelerate research discoveries. We work with some of the top research organizations and facilities in the country including multiple institutes at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

 

Axle is seeking a Sr. UX/UI Designer to join our vibrant team at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) supporting the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS).

 

Benefits We Offer:

• 100% Medical, Dental & Vision Coverage for Employees
• Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays
• 401K match up to 5%
• Educational Benefits for Career Growth
• Employee Referral Bonus
• Flexible Spending Accounts:
  • Healthcare (FSA)
  • Parking Reimbursement Account (PRK)
  • Dependent Care Assistant Program (DCAP)
  • Transportation Reimbursement Account (TRN)

 

About the Mission:

Join the team at the forefront of revolutionizing medical research in the United States. We are building and maintaining the foundational infrastructure of the National Clinical Cohort Collaborative (N3C), the nation’s largest and most significant public repository of harmonized electronic health record (EHR) data.  This isn't just a database. It's a living ecosystem. And to make it work, we need a world-class "front end" for science.

 

The Opportunity: Your Impact

This isn't a standard UI/UX job. We are looking for a Senior UI/UX Designer to own the complete user experience for the entire suite of applications that form the "front door" to N3C. Your challenge is to make the profoundly complex feel elegantly simple.

You will be the chief architect of the user experience for:

• The Data Access Management Environment (DAME): The "command center" for all data access. This complex portal will manage user registration, institutional multi-tenancy (allowing institutions to manage their own users), and the end-to-end workflow for Data Access Requests (DARs).
• The Phenotype Builder & Concept Set Explorer: A powerful analytics tool, inspired by platforms like OHDSI's Atlas, that allows researchers to interactively build and test cohort logic against real, aggregate data, while ensuring strict data privacy.
• The Community & Education Portals: The public face of N3C, where you will build the dashboards, content pages, and training modules that explain the platform's governance, structure, and capabilities to the entire research community.

If you are a systems-thinker who loves untangling high-stakes workflows and translating them into beautiful, intuitive, and empowering designs, this is your opportunity to shape the future of medical research.

 

What You'll Do:

• Lead User Research: Conduct interviews, workshops, and usability tests with our diverse users (clinical researchers, data scientists, institutional administrators) to deeply understand their workflows, needs, and pain points.
• Map Complex Workflows: Design and visualize complete user journeys, information architectures, and process flows for everything from multi-stage data access requests to iterative cohort building.
• Create and Prototype: Develop the full range of design artifacts, from low-fidelity wireframes and user flow diagrams to high-fidelity, pixel-perfect mockups and interactive prototypes using tools like Figma or Sketch.
• Translate Governance into UI: Take complex, abstract governance policies and data privacy rules and translate them into clear, simple, and unambiguous UI elements, guidance, and user feedback.
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