Staff Product Designer

Job Title: Staff Product Designer

Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid)
    
Estimated Duration: Fulltime

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end design process across our product ecosystem, including web applications, data integration experiences, and advanced analytics tools.
• Collaborate closely with product management, engineering, and scientific teams to translate complex user needs into elegant, intuitive, and highly usable design solutions.
• Conduct user research, synthesize findings, and advocate for the voice of the customer throughout the product development lifecycle.
• Establish and maintain design systems that scale across multiple product offerings, ensuring consistency, accessibility, and visual excellence.
• Drive a strong UX strategy that bridges research and clinical workflows, making genomics and multi-omics data accessible to both technical and non-technical users.
• Create prototypes, mockups, and detailed design specifications to support agile development teams.
• Champion a user-centered culture, mentoring other designers and influencing product and technical decisions through a design lens.

Outcomes

• A measurable increase in user engagement, satisfaction, and platform adoption driven by seamless, intuitive, and human-centered experiences.
• A design vision that supports the evolution of omics.ai into a thriving marketplace where researchers and clinicians can easily access, share, and monetize data and tools.
• Deepened understanding of our diverse customer personas and workflows, directly informing product decisions and future platform innovations.
• Delivery of a cohesive and scalable design system that empowers users across the omics.ai platform to confidently explore, integrate, and analyze complex biomedical data.

Ideal Experience 

• 8+ years of professional experience designing for enterprise SaaS platforms, ideally within health tech, life sciences, or related fields.
• Mastery of interaction design, information architecture, and visual design principles, with a strong portfolio showcasing complex product work.
• Deep expertise in leading user research efforts, synthesizing insights, and translating them into impactful product improvements.
• Strong systems thinking and experience developing scalable, modular design systems.
• Ability to collaborate seamlessly across product, engineering, and scientific teams, balancing user needs, business goals, and technical constraints.
• Passion for designing products that solve real user problems and improve outcomes in scientific research and healthcare.
• A strong understanding of accessibility standards and privacy best practices.
• Experience designing for both web and mobile platforms a plus.
• Knowledge of genomics, bioinformatics, or related scientific fields is an asset but not required — a curiosity and willingness to learn is essential.