Senior/Staff Product Designer, biorender
Growth
Scientific diagram creator
Job no longer available
Scientific diagram creator
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
201-500 employees
Company mission
To accelerate the world’s ability to learn, discover and communicate science.
Role
Who you are
- In a perpetual pursuit to understand our users and customers and design delightful user experiences that drive business outcomes (e.g. revenue, sign-ups, retention)
- Uses both qualitative (user research) and quantitative (analytics) data to help make product and design decisions
- Extremely good at finding creative ways to reduce time to learn and validate product ideas and design approaches with minimal engineering effort
- Seen as an expert in nearly all user personas and their workflows within your pillar. Confidently and intuitively prioritizes user needs based on user context. Builds trusting relationships with users. Creates opportunities for cross-functional peers to empathize with users
- Leads qualitative user research on large, ambiguous initiatives
- Actively helps define the Growth team’s vision and how to execute it. Seen as an expert in the product
- Graphic/visual design background is a plus
- Science background is a plus but not required!
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a user-obsessed, business-outcome-oriented Product Designer to design new products and product experiments that will make it easier for scientists to communicate their research while driving material business outcomes for BioRender
- Our growth team has 3 sub-teams or workstreams that the product design role will flex 1-2 of the following opportunity spaces:
- 1. Engagement & Retention: for example, exploring integrations and new add-on products (eg chemistry, animations, 3D figures) to drive user engagement
- 2. Awareness & Acquisition: for example, building free tools, sidecar products and virality loops within the product to drive high-leverage signups
- 3. Free to Paid Conversion: for example, optimizing new user onboarding and activation, free trial experience and experimenting with pricing and packaging to drive self-serve revenue and generate product-qualified leads
- Become an expert on the user, different personas, usage behavior, BioRender products and opportunities and our space/market within the first 90 days. Being an expert on our key user personas will be crucial to your success in this role
- Partner with the Growth leadership triad to determine the highest ROI opportunities and the optimal investment allocation to create a sustained lift in key business metrics. This is an impactful opportunity to join a tightly-knit team solving deep-rooted problems for scientists
- Own the end-to-end design strategy and user experience across the Growth portfolio:
- (1) Design add-on products and iterative product experiments that increase user engagement and retention, e.g. find the smallest viable way to test new add-on products such as AI, chemistry or animation; increase PPT add-on usage from ~6% of MAU to 20%
- (2) Design free tools or sidecar products (eg scientist graphing calculator, science news or research updates tool) for scientists that increase brand awareness and drive new user acquisition
- (3) Optimize signup, onboarding and upgrade funnels, and own pricing and packaging experience + experimentation
- Contribute to the overall product strategy at BioRender. Consistently reevaluate the roadmap based on user feedback, industry trends, company objectives and product strategy. The roadmap is as much yours as it is the product manager’s
- Be an active member of the BioRender Design team who critiques and drives continuous evolution of the overall design and UX of our product and our design practices
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
One of the best ways for science students and experts to communicate ideas is through diagrams, but not everyone has the illustration skills to pull this off. Whilst computer graphics can be used instead of manually drawing scientific imagery, the lack of a dedicated resource for such images prevents diagrams from being consistent and professional.
Biorender hosts thousands of pre-made icons and templates to be used in the creation of diagrams across over 30 different life science fields. The resources follow consistent quality standards and can be dragged and dropped within the platform to create scientific diagrams, to be used by students, teachers, labs, and educational institutions.
Other visual libraries that include scientific icons and templates exist for the creation of diagrams, but Biorender has presented a novel idea with its exhaustive library, offering to produce missing icons on demand within 48 hours. The entire library is free to use alongside basic design features by individuals for educational purposes, with more advanced features and paid licenses being available for labs and institutions. Its success at visualising complex diagrams and information has helped Biorender achieve several rounds of substantial funding.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Apr 2023
$17.1m
SERIES A
Jan 2018
$0.1m
SEED
Total funding: $17.3m
Company benefits
- Health Benefits: Comprehensive health and dental benefits for you and your family from your first day, including an EAP, HSA, and extended mental health benefits.
- Recharge Long Weekends: In addition to vacation days, our 3 annual BioRender Recharge long weekends offer you a chance to unplug and reset!
- Stock Options: Our employees are also part-owners of BioRender and reap the benefits of their shared hard work.
- Parental Leave Benefits: To help your growing family while you're away from work, we offer a salary top up and even a new baby bonus!
- PAW Perks: Keep your furry family members healthy with our Pet & Animal Wellness veterinary bill reimbursement program.
- Learn and Grow: We'll support your professional growth through regular goal-setting, mentorship, and an annual professional development budget for courses and conferences.
- Team Events: Virtual lunch and learns, show & tells, games, and happy hours help us to stay connected in a remote-first environment.
- In-person Hackathons: Twice per year, we bring our whole team together in Toronto for a week of innovative team work, and cap it off with a company social!
- Work from Anywhere: Our team members have the flexibility to work from another country for up to 3 months per year.
Company values
- Team first (best picture, not best actor): We are collaborative and accountable; we acknowledge and celebrate each other’s wins and treat each other with respect.
- User obsessed: We go above and beyond to deliver a world-class experience for our team, customers, and candidates; we ‘act out the scene’ to understand our users’ needs and in turn create raving fans.
- Demand excellence: We are on a continual path of self-improvement; we demand excellence of ourselves and of each other.
- We know nothing: We seek to find the root cause (first principles problem solving); we are humble, self-aware, and seek to be proven wrong.
- Transparency (Candor with care): We welcome and offer transparent feedback; when someone has “spinach in their teeth”, we tell them candidly yet compassionately.
- Take action, and ownership: If it’s to be, it’s up to me (we are drivers, not passengers); we take bold calculated risks, and learn from the results.
- Invent and Simplify: We are creatively resourceful; we turn chaos into order, and we communicate clearly and concisely.
- Ruthlessly prioritize: We focus AND execute: we build the right thing, then build the thing right.
Company HQ
Wellington Place, Toronto, ON
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Founders
Shiz Aoki
(Co-Founder & CEO)Experience as Lead Science Illustrator for National Geographic. Also Founder and Medical Illustrator for Anatomize Studios Inc.
Katya Shteyn
(Co-Founder & CTO)Experience as Software Engineer for Dropbox and as a Software Engineering Intern for Google.
Ryan Marien
(Co-Founder)Co-Founder of SnapSaves. Also Founded Buytopia.ca.
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