Scientific Designer

We are actively seeking a fulltime Scientific Designer to join our missiondriven fastgrowing company to help scientists around the world create and share beautiful professional scientific figures.

Youll work within the BioRender platform to create templates drive template creation strategy and review content for scientific accuracy. Youll keep abreast of scientific breakthroughs and how we provide for them within the product and youll help to optimize the user experience through usability testing. Consulting on special projects will also give you the opportunity to lend your expertise in other areas as needed. Youll work alongside an awardwinning scientific illustration and design team (including alumni from Johns Hopkins University of Toronto National Geographic Magazine and more).

You will be successful in this role if you have

• Strong eye for visual design and science communication: You enjoy producing clean elegant figures and diagrams that elevate science communication.

• Exceptional ability to manage competing deadlines and prioritize effectively: You have a strong work ethic and thrive in a fastpaced environment.

• A crossfunctional and teamoriented approach: You are someone who is teamfirst and loves working on a diverse array of projects that span crossdisciplinary teams.

• Strong ownership and problemsolving skills: You are genuinely curious and like to think outside the box to help contribute to a product users love. You enjoy figuring out thoughtful creative solutions to achieve ambitious objectives and staying agile in your work.

What youll be doing

• Create clean elegant template designs within the BioRender platform from which scientists can modify and generate illustrations

• Contribute to user research and market research to uncover highest priority scientific content needs in consideration of user segments study fields and BioRenders business outcomes.

• Conduct peer and teambased template content reviews of nearfinished templates for accuracy and visual design quality

• Perform routine research / audits for new emerging or breakthrough research topics or trends which may inform pivoting template topic priorities allowing us to always provide relevant helpful content to the science community

• Supporting other departments as an expert: log usability issues / bugs offer qualified suggestions and ideas help with scientific marketing campaigns support the growth of BioRenders user community or points of improvement as an enduser involvement in other science discussions/projects including offering consultation / expertise in specialty projects or endeavours

• Our Senior Scientific designer will also showcase thought leadership in this space and/or people management skills.

What you bring to the table

• Passionate BioRender user with significant experience using the platform

• Portfolio with 35 samples of clean designs created using BioRender depicting a range of topics from cellular molecular protocols etc.

• MSc or PhD in a life sciences field

• 2 years of design experience and/or figuremaking for publications presentations etc

• Experience leading science communication projects/initiatives is a plus

• Strong eye for aesthetics/design and visual communication trends

• Strong communication skills

• Ability to manage competing deadlines and prioritize effectively

Why join us

• We are missiondriven: we work collaboratively towards our shared vision of improving scientific communication and accelerating scientific discovery. BioRender figures have appeared in more than 54000 publications!

• BioRender is loved by millions! We have a worldclass NPS and a community of loyal fans and users in 200 countries!

• Our company is backed by top investors and accelerators like Y Combinator and we are on a growth trajectory comparable to many topperforming SaaS companies

• Were remotefirst with team members across Canada and the U.S. offering you the flexibility to work from anywhere.

BioRender is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or veteran status.