User Experience Designer - RDT Pharma R&D

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The Position

User Experience (UX) Designer

Join our Roche Pharma R&D product environment where you will be working on digital tools that support complex scientific, clinical, or operational workflows. The work requires structured thinking, attention to detail, collaboration with product and engineering teams, and the ability to design for users working with complex information, data, and regulated processes.

The UX Professional is a developing User Experience Designer who contributes to product teams by supporting research, design exploration, prototyping, and validation activities. In this role, you will work on defined product areas, translate user and stakeholder needs into clear design artifacts, and gradually take ownership of smaller design problems under guidance from more experienced UX professionals. You will contribute to wireframes, prototypes, user flows, journey maps, and usability testing activities, while learning how to explain design decisions, evaluate alternatives, and use evidence to improve the user experience.

This role is suited for someone with foundational UX skills, curiosity about complex digital products, and the ability to learn quickly in a multidisciplinary environment.

Responsibilities

• Conduct user research, usability testing, design discovery, and design execution activities under guidance.
• Create wireframes, prototypes, user flows, journey maps, and interface specifications for defined features or product areas.
• Explore multiple design solutions for clearly defined design problems and help evaluate their strengths, limitations, and trade-offs.
• Use the Roche / R Design System to build consistent, accessible, and scalable interface solutions.
• Support design documentation by capturing key decisions, assumptions, open questions, and user needs.

Accountability / Problem Solving

• Work with increasing autonomy on smaller UX deliverables and clearly scoped product areas.
• Translate user needs, stakeholder input, and product requirements into structured design artifacts.
• Identify assumptions, information gaps, and potential usability risks in proposed solutions.
• Communicate design rationale through mockups, prototypes, flows, and concise written explanations.
• Understand when design work should be validated through research, usability testing, user feedback, or design critique.

Stakeholder Management

• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, business stakeholders, researchers, and other designers.
• Ask clarifying questions to understand better user needs, business goals, technical constraints, and product priorities.
• Present design work clearly and receive feedback constructively.
• Support alignment by making design decisions visible through clear artifacts and documentation.

Impact / Strategy

• Contribute to the foundational design work of product initiatives by creating clear, usable, and consistent design outputs.
• Help the team move from ambiguity toward structured design options.
• Support better product decisions by bringing user perspective, usability considerations, and design evidence into team discussions.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of UX practices, reusable patterns, and design system adoption.

Complexity

• Work primarily on individual features, flows, foundational components, or clearly scoped product areas.
• Learn to handle increasing product complexity, including data-heavy interfaces, scientific workflows, and cross-functional constraints.

Business / Technical Ability

• Maintain a foundational understanding of core UX methods, including usability testing, wireframing, prototyping, user journey mapping, and basic research synthesis.
• Demonstrate practical profic