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We serve most of the top global biotech & pharma companies including Dow 30 and S&P500 companies. We're a mission-driven, product-focused company backed by top-tier investors and trusted by the world's leading R&D organizations.\nThe Director, UX and Product Design will own the overall user experience, UI/UX architecture, and product design direction across the product portfolio. This individual will be responsible for translating complex user needs and workflows into intuitive, high-quality product experiences while contributing meaningfully to product strategy. The role will work closely with Product, Engineering, Science, and Commercial teams to ensure product experiences are grounded in user evidence, aligned with business objectives, and designed to drive adoption, engagement, retention, and growth.\nThe Director will also establish scalable design systems and design processes and will have the opportunity to build and lead the UI/UX design organization as the company grows.\nKey Responsibilities\nOwn the overall UI/UX architecture and product design direction across the product portfolio.\nDevelop information architecture, navigation structures, user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity product designs.\nTranslate complex user needs, workflows, and product requirements into intuitive, efficient, and compelling user experiences.\nConduct user research, usability testing, and customer discovery to inform product decisions, value propositions, and product requirement specifications.\nContribute to the direction of product strategy through well-structured proposals grounded in user evidence, customer needs, and product insights.\nDrive alignment between product experiences and user workflows to increase adoption, engagement, stickiness, retention, and ultimately business growth.\nIdentify opportunities to improve existing products and systematically improve usability, discoverability, consistency, and overall product quality.\nEstablish and evolve processes for design reviews, UX critique, prototyping, user validation, and design decision-making.\nWork cross-functionally as a product leader with Science, Commercial, Product, and Engineering teams to define user requirements and validate desired outcomes from early product definition through implementation.\nCollaborate with Brand, Marketing, Scientific/Content, and other creative teams where product and brand experiences intersect, ensuring visual brand standards are applied coherently across the customer experience.\nPartner closely with Engineering to establish and maintain a scalable design system, including reusable components, interaction patterns, and UX principles, while maintaining a high bar for design quality and implementation fidelity.\nRecruit, hire, manage, and mentor UI/UX and product design professionals as the Product Design organization grows.\nRequirements\nExtensive experience in product design, UX design and architecture, interaction design, or related disciplines, with significant experience designing B2B or B2X digital products.\nExperience designing enterprise, scientific, technical, analytical, data-intensive, or workflow-oriented software or related products which serve highly specialized professional or technical users.\nStrong proficiency with modern product design methodologies and tools, including prototyping platforms and emerging AI-enabled design and prototyping tools.\nStrong communication and presentation skills, including the ability to clearly articulate and defend design decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nBS, MS, or advanced degree in Design, Engineering, Science, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.\nBenefits\nDrug Hunter provides industry-leading benefits, including the following:\nCompetitive salary, variable compensation, and equity\nBroad range of medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans for employees and their dependents, including generous coverage for a platinum PPO healthcare plan\nShort-term disability and long-term disability insurance\nCancer and critical illness coverage\nUp to 12 weeks paid parental leave (after 1 yr tenure) and childcare FSA plan\n401(k) + employer match (3-5%)\nHome office set up stipend for fully remote employees\nLearning and development support\nGenerous and flexible vacation and leave policies","description_format":"text","description_chars":4506,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity","Home office","Life insurance","Parental leave"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Pharmaceuticals","Drug Discovery","Medical AI"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-18T14:31:56Z"}],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":5,"expected_fill_days":21,"reasons":["conf:2","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-09-24T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/drug-hunter-director-ux-and-product-design","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/drug-hunter-director-ux-and-product-design.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-24T20:15:17Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers"}}