Staff Architect, User Experience (Us Remote)

Job Description

Do you have a passion for innovative ideas and ground-breaking discoveries? With over $1 billion invested annually in R&D, at Thermo Fisher Scientific you’ll help solve some of the world’s toughest challenges, from giving cancer patients hope, ensuring safe drinking water and helping law enforcement tackle cases through forensics. We empower our teams to put science into meaningful action and give our R&D colleagues the autonomy, resources and tools they need to take science a step beyond.

Location/Division Specific Information

US-Remote / Transplant Diagnostics

How will you make an impact?

You will play an integral role in the development and enhancement of our products and work closely with in-house multi-functional teams and lead outside design resources to produce a great User Experience.  You will be accountable for multiple projects in tandem with a multi-disciplinary team, estimate the level of effort, and produce any vital UX artifacts: heuristic evaluations, wireframes, user flows, site maps, comps, redline specs. etc. As the Staff Architect, you will also lead a team, develop usability test plans, evaluate UX performance, and ensure that all milestones are met within the established timeline.

What will you do?

• Produce and craft highly usable interface solutions passionate about the User Experience
• Review research on competing products, existing initiatives, past projects, and customer research
• Synthesize findings to aid developing the product or project strategy
• Design solutions that meet or exceed strategic objectives
• Guide and collaborate with designers, internal and external, with detailed delegation, follow-up and mentor
• Cultivate throughout the company that User Experience has a fundamental role in product development
• Rationalize solutions with the project teams
• Balance creative requirements with business requirements
• Provide quality assurance on creative work
• Translate concepts into effective User Experiences
• Develop plans that production teams can use to help guide their work
• Produce UX documentation: information architectures, wireframes, process flows, interaction designs, style guides, etc.
• Ensure UX documentation is continuously updated and distributed to the production teams
• Identify and implement opportunities to refine UX processes

How will you get here?

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as graphic design, interaction design, user psychology or computer science
 

Experience

• 5+ years proven experience leading UX projects

• 2+ years of industry experience in digital design, information sciences, biotechnology or library/information science or related field
• Experience applying research and analysis to products
• Good understanding of and experience with: user-centered design techniques; development of organization-focused designs from concept to completion; project processes for the development of large or small projects 
• Preferred experience with: software development process/business analysis; user research, usability practices and testing

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Effective communication skills, both orally and in a variety of written and diagrammatic forms
• Proven interpersonal skills, leading design resources skills; and ability to work in a team environment
• Creative thinking and problem-solving skills
• Detailed, diligent, and highly organized, plus ability to multitask and meet timelines
• High proficiency in the use of MS Office, Visio and design tools such as Photoshop and Figma

This position has not been approved for relocation assistance.

Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Watch as our colleagues explain 5 reasons to work with us. As one team of 100,000+ colleagues, we share a common set of values - Integrity, Intensity, Innovation and Involvement - working together to accelerate research, solve complex scientific challenges, drive technological innovation and support patients in need. #StartYourStory at Thermo Fisher Scientific, where diverse experiences, backgrounds and perspectives are valued.

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Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.

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Compensation and Benefits

The salary range estimated for this position based in California is $118,600.00–$158,100.00.

This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on, which includes:

• A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs

• Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement

• At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy

• Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan

• Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount

For more information on our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.thermofisher.com/global/en/total-rewards