Senior Product Designer

About Us:

Culture’s mission is to simplify bioprocess development and make it as fast and easy to scale bioprocesses, as it is to scale software. With this mission, Culture’s first offering enables biopharma, biotechnology, and synthetic biology companies to execute their bioprocessing R&D in the cloud. Our clients design, manage, and analyze bioprocess experiments in Culture’s Console web application. Culture’s offering enables customers to focus on designing and improving their processes versus spending time and effort building out their own high-throughput process development laboratories. Customers remotely observe their processes and analyze data while their experiments are executed in Culture’s cloud-connected bioreactor facility in South San Francisco. The facility is enabled by Culture’s proprietary 250mL and 5L single-use bioreactor technology and software systems.

At Culture, we combine our passions for biomanufacturing, engineering, and operations to build new solutions that make bioprocess development faster. We value curiosity, communication, collaboration, a customer focused mindset and a drive for results.

The Opportunity: 

Culture Biosciences is looking for a product designer to join our growing team. As a Senior Product Designer, you will own product design across our entire software portfolio. Your purview includes defining our design philosophy, the overall look, feel and usability of our product and working with our engineering team to create a commercial product that is intuitive and easy to use. 

This year will be a big year for Culture as we look to rebuild significant parts of our software tools - and as we do that we want to build it in a coherent and thoughtful way that makes sense for our customers and highlights the amazing features we have to offer. You will be critical in making that product a success, owning the full process from ideation to production. This role will have you focus on our software but is also deeply connected with the hardware we are designing and building. 

What you'll do:

• Influence product direction and define design projects
• Define how users will interact with our software and outline our design paradigms
• Design artifacts that provide the right level of detail at each stage of the product development 
• Rapidly design and prototype multiple ideas for product features
• Drive user research to get feedback on current and future products and designs
• Understand the needs of our customers and translate them into easy to use pages and workflows
• Advance a strong point of view, backed by personal expertise, design rationale and data
• Actively contribute to evolving our process, tools and systems 

About you:

• 5+ years experience designing for software products that customers love (ideally SaaS)
• A strong portfolio of relevant design work (UX and UI) that conveys an ability to ship successful products people love
• Effective prototyping skills. Figma expertise is strongly preferred
• Experience crafting design systems to deliver usable and elegant solutions
• Experience building and maintaining a design system for complex software products
• Strong communication skills and ability to explain the reasoning behind complex decisions
• Experience working with PM and engineering in a fast-moving environment
• Relentless customer focus

In return, we will support you by:

• Placing a high degree of trust in your ideas and execution.
• Making ourselves available for collaboration.
• Caring about you as a whole person.
• Supporting your personal and professional growth.

Location & Schedule: 

• This is a hybrid position. We’re looking for someone based in the San Francisco Bay Area who is able to work in person at our office in South San Francisco at least 1 day per week. 

Base Salary Range:

• Culture Biosciences's compensation package includes market competitive salary, equity for all full time roles, and great benefits. If you are located in the San Francisco Bay Area, our expected cash compensation for this role is $120,000 - $165,000.  We are hiring for multiple levels and backgrounds so final offers may vary within the range provided based on experience, expertise, and other factors.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and equity compensation
• Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life insurance
• Medical and Dependent Care FSA (prorated based on start-date)
• 401(k) plan with company match
• 3 weeks of accrued paid time off, 10 paid company holidays and a week-long winter break
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