Product Designer Job at Saphetor

Job Description

We are looking for a talented Product Designer to join one of our engineering teams. This is a hybrid UX and front-end role. You will own the user experience of new features across the VarSome suite, define a shared visual language and component library, and help bring more consistency to our platform's UI over time. You will work closely with product managers and engineers, turning feature intent and early concepts into clear, usable, and consistent interfaces. You will be able to build what you design, contributing production-quality React code alongside the engineers in your team rather than working in isolation. We thrive in a high-pressure, high-performance environment where clinical precision and rapid growth meet. While our pace is fast, it is always directed by rigorous organization and clear processes, ensuring that our commitment to quality is never compromised by our drive for speed.

Job Responsibility

Feature UX: Partner with product managers and engineers on every new feature, translating product intent into clear, consistent, and usable designs within the current platform
Design System & Component Library: Define shared standards for color, typography, spacing, and interaction patterns, and build a reusable React component library that the rest of the engineering team can adopt for new features
UI Modernization: Review the current state of the platform's UI, identify inconsistencies accumulated over time, and incrementally improve and unify it with the design system
Hands-on Implementation: Prototype and ship production-quality React code for design system components and new feature UI, working directly alongside engineers rather than handing off static designs
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with your engineering team lead, product managers, and domain experts to understand user needs and translate them into effective interfaces for complex scientific data

Requirements

Education: A Bachelor's and/or Master's degree in Design, HCI, Computer Science, or a relevant field
Experience: 4–6 years of professional experience designing and shipping UX/UI for web applications, ideally including B2B or data-heavy products
Portfolio: A portfolio or case studies demonstrating shipped design work, including your role in the process from concept to final product
Design Craft: Strong interaction and visual design skills: layout, typography, color
Design Systems: Proven experience defining and evolving design systems or component libraries
Front-End Skills: Working proficiency in React, with the ability to ship production-quality UI code, not only prototypes. Solid HTML/CSS/SCSS fluency
Inclusive Design Awareness: A practical eye for details like color contrast and colorblind-friendly palettes when choosing colors and building interfaces
Maintainable, team-usable design artifacts: Whatever tools you use - Figma, AI-assisted design tools, or others, the design files, component library, and documentation you produce are structured for the whole team to consume, contribute to, and evolve over time. Tool choice is yours, shared usability of the output is what matters
Languages: Strong command of the English language, both written and spoken

Nice to have

Prior work on scientific, clinical, healthcare, or other data-dense B2B products
Experience designing data-visualization-heavy interfaces (charts, tables, complex interactive components)
Working experience with Figma or equivalent modern design tooling, including AI-assisted design tools
Comfort working with product teams that iterate quickly, including interpreting early mockups to understand user needs and feature intent
An interest in genetics and precision medicine (no prior domain knowledge required — we'll provide training)

What we offer

A position in a fascinating healthcare growth domain, at the cutting edge of technology and research
A competitive compensation package tailored to your unique expertise and professional background
A remote-first work environment (or hybrid, with 1 day/week at the office if you are based in Athens) that promotes a healthy work-life balance
Endless learning opportunities, while transferring new technologies from academics to clinical practice all over the world

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