Overview:

About Certara

Certara is a growing company that provides a dynamic and exciting place to work. Our purpose is to assist in accelerating the development of meaningful medicines that make an impact on society and the people who need them most. Innovation and creativity are highly valued, and everyone is given the opportunity for training and continuous development. Our portfolio spans the discovery, preclinical, clinical, and post-marketing phases of drug development, working with 1,200 commercial companies, 250 academic institutions, and numerous regulatory agencies.

The Senior Product Designer at Certara is responsible for designing user experience solutions that transform the Simcyp Simulator from a desktop application to a cloud-based platform, while enhancing the desktop version’s usability. This role focuses on creating mockups, prototypes, and workflows to support a seamless transition to Microsoft Azure, ensuring consistency and accessibility across platforms. The Senior Product Designer collaborates with product managers, engineers, and the design team to deliver high-quality experiences that advance Certara’s mission to accelerate drug development.

Responsibilities:

• Design user experience solutions for the Simcyp Simulator, translating user stories into mockups and prototypes using tools like Figma.
• Enhance workflows for a global audience, addressing diverse accessibility needs and ensuring usability across desktop and cloud platforms.
• Collaborate with engineers to address edge cases and technical challenges, adapting designs as needed during development.
• Adopt, Refine and expand the existing Design System, identifying gaps and advocating for its adoption across Certara’s product teams.
• Provide constructive feedback and insightful questions to flesh out user stories with product managers and stakeholders.
• Ensure design consistency and scalability as the Simcyp Simulator transitions to Microsoft Azure-based cloud infrastructure.
• Champion user-centered design principles, advocating for innovative UX possibilities within the product area.
• Support the growth of the Product Design Team by sharing knowledge and mentoring team members.
• Tackle complex design problems with critical thinking, balancing user needs with technical feasibility.
• Maintain documentation of design decisions, prototypes, and workflows for team reference and future iterations.

Qualifications:

Essential

• Proven experience designing workflows with mockups and prototypes for software applications, ideally for a global audience.
• Strong expertise in UX design, with proficiency in Figma or comparable design tools (UI-only experience not sufficient).
• Basic understanding of HTML/CSS standards to effectively communicate with engineering teams.
• Familiarity with product management practices and tools (e.g., Shape Up, Atlassian products, or similar).
• High degree of empathy to understand user perspectives and team dynamics.
• Excellent communication skills for collaborating with product managers, engineers, and designers.
• Ability to advocate for great UX and propose innovative solutions within a product area.
• Critical thinking skills to address complex design challenges and deliver scalable solutions.
• 3 years working in product design environment

Desirable

• Experience designing for cloud-based platforms, such as Microsoft Azure, and transitioning desktop applications to the cloud.
• Understanding of the pharmaceutical or biotech industry and its unique user experience challenges.
• Familiarity with accessibility standards and designing for diverse user needs.
• Previous success in evolving a Design System or promoting its adoption across teams.
• Willingness to teach and learn, contributing to the growth of a design team.

Certara bases all employment-related decision on merit, taking into consideration qualifications, skills, achievement, and performance. We treat all applicants and employees without regard to personal characteristics such as race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, nationality, marital status, pregnancy, physical or mental condition, genetic information, military service, or other characteristic protected by law.