Senior Platform Designer

ppAre you a senior designer who wants to shape how a complex clinical platform evolves across genomics, oncology, imaging, and real-world data? Join our Platform Design Innovation team to own cross-cutting design problems across SOPHiA DDM™: a multimodal platform serving geneticists, pathologists, oncologists, bioinformaticians, and pharma researchers in one of the most consequential domains in healthcare. /ppYou'll design for expert users operating under clinical pressure, not for consumer simplicity, and your work will directly influence what gets built across variant interpretation, oncology decision support, radiomics, and research data access. This is a role where design changes outcomes, and where the complexity is the point. /ppIf you are a designer who earns trust with engineers and PMs from your credible technical background, moves fast from research to prototype to validation, and wants a clear path toward leading a design function — join the SOPHiA GENETICS Platform Design Innovation team as our new Senior Platform Designer, and help us make a positive impact on the outcomes for cancer and rare disease patients worldwide. This is a senior individual contributor role with a clear path to team leadership. /ppEnjoy the flexibility of a hybrid work schedule allowing 2 days PW home working, collaborating closely with colleagues in our Rolle, CH or Bidart, FR corporate office. /ph3Our Mission /h3pWe believe there is a smarter, more data-driven way to make decisions in healthcare and our cloud-native AI powered SOPHiA DDM Platform makes that vision a reality on a daily basis. You will have direct input to our mission to democratize data-driven medicine for the ultimate benefit of cancer and rare disease patients across the globe. /ph3Your Mission /h3pAs our Senior Platform Product Designer, you will combine genuine product design depth with rapid prototyping capability and the product judgment to drive design decisions from user research through to shipped features. /ppThe Platform Design Innovation (PDI) is the team responsible for how DDM evolves as a platform: cross-cutting design patterns, the design system, high-value product initiatives, and the translation of complex clinical requirements into coherent product experiences across all application teams. /ppThis is not a role for someone whose strength is visual polish. It is a role for a designer who thinks in workflows and mental models, who holds product judgment conversations with engineering and PM, and who produces work that changes what gets built. /ppThe value you bring: /ph3Work at expert-user depth - across diverse user groups /h3ulliConduct research with users across the platform’s range: genomics experts operating at high information density (geneticists, pathologists, bioinformaticians), oncologists and clinicians using Carepath for treatment decision support, and pharma researchers accessing real-world data through DataHub. These are not the same user; designing well for each without fragmenting the platform is the hard problem. /liliDesign for appropriate complexity, not for consumer simplicity. Expert users read variant tables and imaging reports under clinical pressure; pharma researchers need research-grade data access with audit controls; oncologists need actionable summaries without losing access to underlying evidence. Your designs must match the cognitive model of whoever is in front of the screen. /liliBalance clinical workflow fidelity with IVD regulatory constraints: traceability, audit trail, accessibility, and the interaction patterns that survive regulatory review. /li /ulh3Own cross-platform design problems /h3ulliLead the design of major DDM platform workflows across the full product surface: variant triage and interpretation in the genomics platform, oncology decision-support workflows in Carepath, multimodal data views that combine genomic and imaging signals, and DataHub experiences for clinical and pharma research users. /liliDefine and evolve the cross-surface interaction patterns that give the platform coherence: how data from different modalities is presented together, how classification decisions are recorded and traced, how clinical and research users with different expertise levels navigate the same underlying data. /liliGovern and evolve the DDM design system in collaboration with engineering: component usage, token standards, interaction primitives, and the documentation that makes the system usable across teams. /li /ulh3Prototype and validate /h3ulliBuild interactive prototypes to compress the time between concept and clinical feedback. Use whatever tooling compresses that cycle, (AI-assisted code, low-code scaffolding, or hand-crafted HTML) with the goal of getting something real in front of users quickly. /liliRun validation sessions with clinical users, oncologists, and pharma partners early and continuously. Treat user research as a design input, not a sign-off step. /li /ulh3Partner with engineering, product, and cross-team stakeholders /h3ulliWork alongside platform engineering as a peer. Translate between the language of design (workflows, mental models, jobs-to-be-done) and the language of engineering (APIs, data models, performance, security). The role succeeds when both teams move faster because of how well you operate at that boundary. /liliCollaborate with Product Owners and Product Managers across application teams — HemOnc, Solid Tumor LBx, RID, Carepath, DataHub. PDI’s mandate is transversal: you do not sit within one team’s scope, you influence platform-level decisions across all of them. That requires earning trust with POs and PMs who have their own roadmaps and priorities, and shaping shared vision without direct authority. /li /ulh3Grow towards team leadership /h3ulliBuild influence across engineering, product, data science, clinical stakeholders, and executive leadership. Raise the quality bar for design artifacts across teams. Develop readiness for team leadership: mentoring junior designers, shaping team process, and taking ownership of a design function. /li /ulh3Requirements /h3h3Experience Craft /h3ulliA track record as a senior product or platform designer or product manager in regulated environments (HealthTech, MedTech, scientific software) where users are domain experts — clinical, scientific, or technical SaaS where workflows are genuinely complex and simplification is not the answer. /liliA portfolio of shipped work showing product judgment: hard tradeoffs, designs evolved through validation, and clear evidence that your involvement changed what got built, designed for multiple, distinct user groups. /liliExperience designing information-dense, data-heavy interfaces: tables, filters, multi-step clinical or scientific workflows, multimodal data views. /li /ulh3Product and Technical Fluency /h3ulliComfortable working close to code and close to product: you can author requirements and acceptance criteria, hold a meaningful conversation with engineers about implementation constraints, and build prototypes that go beyond static mockups. /liliHands on technical experience in development/engineering and product development earlier in your career. /li /ulh3Domain and Leadership /h3ulliGenuine curiosity about the domain, clinical genomics, imaging, and real-world data are technically rich and humanly consequential. The best designers in this space find the complexity more interesting, not more intimidating. /liliGrounded understanding of AI/ML in a clinical context. Experience extending AI/ML features within a regulated product /liliExcellent communicator and influencer across audiences including genomics experts, oncologists, pharma partners, engineers, Product Owners, executives. You can tell the story of a design decision in the language of whoever is in the room. /li /ulh3Benefits /h3pYou will be joining an organization with the patient at the heart of every decision and action, driven by purpose as we pursue exponential growth. /ppBusiness recognition and accolades include: /pulliWorld's most innovative companies (Top 10) /liliWorld's smartest companies (Top 50) /lili100 Best Places to Work in Boston /liliTop 10 European Tech Startup /liliTop 10 European biotechs startup to watch /liliTop 25 East-Coast Biotech to watch /li /ulpOur benefits package is comprehensive, but varies internationally in-line with local standards and laws. You can discuss a full breakdown with us, but as a brief overview: /pulliSickness and Accident coverage through Helsana /liliMeal Vouchers at 90CHF PM with our partner cafeteria /liliA fun and engaging work environment, with Rest Entertainment space, full stocked free coffee machine and free fruit/snacks /liliFree parking in an easy to access location /liliA strong social committee whose purpose is to make SOPHiA GENETICs both enjoyable as well as rewarding /liliAs our global HQ, you’ll have direct interaction and exposure to senior leadership and our executive team locally /li /ulh3Our DNA /h3pLike the strands of DNA itself, SOPHiA GENETICS and the team are deeply interconnected and reliant on each other to deliver. There are common threads across the team. Things that bind us together. Those things are Relentless Curious; Resilient Nimble and Fearlessly Adventurous /ph3Our Virtues /h3pAt SOPHiA GENETICS we established our 7 Virtues to clarify how our principles show up each day through action. We Decide; We Do; We Collaborate; We Innovate; We Empower; We Adapt and We Learn. /ppAt the centre of our Virtues is our Mantra, We Care, which provides a constant reminder of the compassionate, benevolent, and hopeful nature of our mission and how it should be threaded through each of our Virtues and everything we do. Learn more about our DNA and Virtues on our Careers portal /ph3The Process /h3pSuitably qualified candidates will be invited through an interview and screening process where you will speak with members of our Talent Acquisition Team, the hiring leader alongside key colleagues and stakeholders from across the business. If you need additional support for accessibility, please contact our TA team for assistance. /ppWe appreciate the value external partners can bring, but we operate a direct-hiring model and we are not looking to utilize agency support at this time. All hiring is controlled by Talent Acquisition, potential partners should liaise through TA and not our hiring teams please. /ppStarting Date: ASAP /ppLocation: Rolle, CH or Bidart, FR (Hybrid) /ppContract: Permanent /p /p #J-18808-Ljbffr