Senior Product Designer
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Job Summary
About Apheris
At Apheris we are building the future of how AI is applied in pharmaceutical R&D.
We enable leading pharmaceutical teams to discover and develop drugs faster. We host the industrys largest federated data networks for drug discovery AI spanning co-folding ADMET and antibody developability.
Across these networks models are trained on proprietary industry datasets to achieve higher performance and broader applicability while keeping data control and IP protected. We deliver these superior models through drug discovery applications that enable teams to run them at scale further customize them and integrate them into existing R&D workflows.
We enable leading pharmaceutical teams to discover and develop drugs faster. We host the industrys largest federated data networks for drug discovery AI spanning co-folding ADMET and antibody developability.
Across these networks models are trained on proprietary industry datasets to achieve higher performance and broader applicability while keeping data control and IP protected. We deliver these superior models through drug discovery applications that enable teams to run them at scale further customize them and integrate them into existing R&D workflows.
- AI Structural Biology (AISB) Network: Eighttop-20pharma companies collaborate in the field of co-folding structure-based binding affinitypredictionsand antibody design.
- ADMET Network: Fivetop-50pharma andbiotechscollaborate to improve small-molecule property prediction and expand to further drug modalities (e.g. PROTACs).
- Antibody Developability Network: Pharma partners collaborate to federate historical and purpose-built antibodydevelopabilitydatasets for secure ML training without data leaving each partners environment.
About the role
We are looking for a Senior Product Designer to take ownership of the UI/UX across Apheris growing portfolio of scientific applications. As we increasingly deliver end-user products to drug discovery teams great design is becoming critical to ensuring our tools are intuitive efficient and trusted by scientists in their day-to-day work.
In this role you will design products used primarily by medicinal chemists and computational chemists. You will invest deeply in understanding how these users think work and make decisions and translate that understanding into interfaces that feel natural within real drug discovery workflows. An important aspect of the role is making advanced ML outputs interpretable and actionable helping users build confidence in model behavior and data-rich results.
You will work closely with the product team and domain experts to shape product direction from early discovery through to production. This is a hands-on role for a designer who enjoys rapid prototyping iterative feedback loops and taking accountability for turning complex technical capabilities into clear usable products that deliver real value.
In this role you will design products used primarily by medicinal chemists and computational chemists. You will invest deeply in understanding how these users think work and make decisions and translate that understanding into interfaces that feel natural within real drug discovery workflows. An important aspect of the role is making advanced ML outputs interpretable and actionable helping users build confidence in model behavior and data-rich results.
You will work closely with the product team and domain experts to shape product direction from early discovery through to production. This is a hands-on role for a designer who enjoys rapid prototyping iterative feedback loops and taking accountability for turning complex technical capabilities into clear usable products that deliver real value.
What you will do
- Own the end-to-end UX and UI design across multiple Apheris products with a strong focus on usability for drug discovery scientists
- Work closely with the Product team and scientific stakeholders to translate product strategy user needs and technical constraints into effective design solutions
- Developwireframes andquick prototypesto test concepts with external usersand domain experts and iterate rapidly based on feedback
- Design and refine production-ready interfaces that balance scientific complexity with clarity and ease of use
- Actively engage withusers to understand their workflows andvalidatedesign decisions
- Contribute to the design of flagship applications such asApherisFold new products in the ADMET spaceotherexternal-facing technical tools and the Apheris website
- Continuously evaluate and improve the user experience through testing iteration and close collaboration withproductengineeringand science teams
What we expect from you
- Strong experience as a Product Designer working on complexdata-drivenorAI-empoweredproductswithscientificor drug discovery users
- A user-first mindset with the ability to deeply understand specialist workflows and design interfaces that align with how usersactually work
- Proven ability to move from low-fidelity concepts to polished production-ready designs
- Experience using AI-powered prototyping tools and a broad suite of high-fidelity product design tools to rapidly explorevalidate and ship high-quality experiences
- Comfort working in fast-moving environments iteratingquicklyand making pragmatic trade-offs
- Strong communicationskills abilityto clearly explain design decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Ownership mentality: you take accountability for design quality and are proactive inidentifyingand solving UX problems
- A portfolio thatdemonstratesthoughtful UX decisions not just visual polish
- Experience running user interviews usability testing or design validation with external users
- Familiarity with drug discovery life sciences or chemistry-related workflows
- Exposure to complex enterprise or B2B products
- Experience designing tools for scientific technical or data-heavy domains
Nice to have
- Experience designing interfaces for data exploration visualization and analysis-heavy workflows
- Experience withAI-enabled products and how they are experienced by end users
- Familiarity with workflows in data science machine learning or computational research
- Experience contributing to or shaping a design system
What we offer you
- Industry-competitive compensation including early-stage virtual share options
- Remote-first working work where you work best whether from home or a co-working space near you
- Great suite of benefits including a wellbeing budget mental health benefits a work-from-home budget a co-working stipend and a learning and development budget
- Regular team lunches and social events
- Generous holiday allowance
- Office Days at our Berlin HQ or a different European location (3x a year)
- A fun diverse team of mission-driven individuals with a drive to see AI and ML used for good
- Plenty of room to grow personally and professionally and shape your own role
Logistics
Our interview process is split into three phases:
- Initial Screening: If your application aligns with our requirements well invite you to a 30minute video call to explore mutual fit. This conversation is an opportunity for you to learn more about us and the role while the interviewer will focus on your relevant experience and skills. Youll also have time to ask any questions you may have about the company or position.
- Presentation & Deep Dive: Prior to the session youll complete a short offline design assessment and prepare a case study. During the followup session youll present your case study to our team. Our team will engage with you to understand your problemsolving approach technical depth and how your past experiences align with the challenges of the role.
- Final Interview: In the final round youll meet several team members youre likely to work with closely. This conversation focuses on our culture collaboration style and what its like to be part of the team the second part youll meet with one of our founder talking about our culture and collaboration style.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- InVision
- Interaction Design
- Ux
- Usability
- Visual Design
- Design Thinking
- Zeplin
- User Research
- UI
- IOS
- Figma
- Sketch
About Company
Build ML-powered products using data that spans organizational or geographical boundaries, while ensuring compliance with regulation.
