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Director, UX Design

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Cambridge, MA
Senior level
Cambridge, MA
Senior level
The Director of UX Design will oversee user research, wireframing, prototyping, and interaction design to enhance user engagement and drive product innovation. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to refine product strategy while ensuring usability and accessibility.
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FL100, Inc. is a privately held, early-stage company pioneering the use of artificial intelligence-based agents to build an integrated, end-to-end platform for AI-driven product innovation. FL100 has created intelligent and reliable AI agent-powered workflows for emergent product innovation. Emergent product innovation leads to new products with breakthrough market adoption that generate new sources of value by solving for large unmet consumer needs and creating demand that did not exist previously.

We're leveraging multi-agent systems to accelerate growth, speed up product design innovation, and automate e-commerce operations. Currently, we offer an app on a major e-commerce platform that demonstrates our capabilities, with plans to expand across various other platforms and online marketplaces.

FL100 is backed by Flagship Pioneering, an innovation enterprise that conceives, creates, resources, and builds companies that invent breakthrough technologies to transform health care, agriculture, and sustainability. Flagship has created over 100 groundbreaking companies since 2000, including Moderna.

Position Summary: 

We are looking for a talented and passionate UX Designer to join our dynamic team. As a UX Designer at FL100, you will work closely with product managers, developers, and other stakeholders to design engaging and user-friendly interfaces for our platform and products. Your primary goal will be to understand our users' needs and ensure a smooth and enjoyable experience across all touchpoints.

The ideal candidate must be an independent, open-minded, goal-oriented, creative designer with sound common sense and business thinking, coupled with excellent communication skills and comfortable working in a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment. 

Key Responsibilities:

  1. User Research:
    • Conduct user research through interviews, surveys, usability testing, and analytics.
    • Analyze user feedback and behavior to identify pain points and opportunities for improvement.
  2. Wireframing and Prototyping:
    • Create wireframes, storyboards, user flows, and prototypes to communicate design ideas.
    • Iterate on designs based on feedback from users and team members.
  3. Interaction Design:
    • Create intuitive interaction models and comprehensive UI design specifications.
    • Ensure designs deliver consistent, responsive experiences across diverse devices, platforms, and browsers.
  4. Collaboration:
    • Work closely with cross-functional teams including product managers, developers, and customer success specialists.
    • Participate in brainstorming sessions and design reviews to shape product strategy and vision.
  5. Usability Testing:
    • Plan and conduct usability tests to gather qualitative and quantitative data.
    • Analyze the test results and propose design solutions to address usability problems.
  6. Documentation:
    • Create and maintain design documentation to communicate design decisions and guidelines.
    • Ensure all design documentation is up to date and accessible to the team.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in UX Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, or a related field.
  • Proven experience (5+ years) as a UX Designer or similar role. SaaS experience preferred.
  • Strong portfolio demonstrating user-centered design skills and problem-solving abilities.
  • Proficiency in design tools such as Sketch, Figma, Adobe XD, InVision, or similar.
  • Excellent understanding of usability principles and best practices.
  • Experience with responsive and adaptive design principles.
  • Knowledge of front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) is a plus.
  • Strong communication and teamwork skills.
  • Ability to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines effectively. Results-driven, high-performer with highly collaborative style. Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment.

Values and Behaviors

  • Constant Learner: Seeks out emerging UX Design trends and harnesses them for practical impact.
  • Customer-Obsessed: Designs solutions that deliver real value to users, keeping the customer’s needs at the forefront.
  • Mission-Oriented: Committed to bringing breakthrough AI technologies to market.
  • Entrepreneurial Spirit: Embraces ambiguity and drives innovative solutions independently.
  • Works with Velocity & Urgency: Efficiently tackles challenges with a results-driven approach.
  • Collaborative: Partners effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
  • Accountable: Maintains ownership of initiatives and delivers on commitments.
  • Growth Mindset: Views experimentation and iteration as opportunities for improvement.
  • Innovative: Thinks outside the box to advance AI-driven product innovation.

More About Flagship Pioneering

Flagship Pioneering is a bioplatform innovation company that invents and builds platform companies, each with the potential for multiple products that transform human health or sustainability. Since its launch in 2000, Flagship has originated and fostered more than 100 scientific ventures, resulting in more than $90 billion in aggregate value. Many of the companies Flagship has founded have addressed humanity’s most urgent challenges: vaccinating billions of people against COVID-19, curing intractable diseases, improving human health, preempting illness, and feeding the world by improving the resiliency and sustainability of agriculture.  Flagship has been recognized twice on FORTUNE’s “Change the World” list, an annual ranking of companies that have made a positive social and environmental impact through activities that are part of their core business strategies, and has been twice named to Fast Company’s annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies. Learn more about Flagship at www.flagshippioneering.com.

Flagship Pioneering and our ecosystem companies are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.

At Flagship, we recognize there is no perfect candidate. If you have some of the experience listed above but not all, please apply anyway. Experience comes in many forms, skills are transferable, and passion goes a long way. We are dedicated to building diverse and inclusive teams and look forward to learning more about your unique background.

Recruitment & Staffing Agencies: Flagship Pioneering and its affiliated Flagship Lab companies (collectively, “FSP”) do not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to FSP or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Flagship Pioneering’s internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of FSP, and FSP will not owe any referral or other fees with respect thereto.

Top Skills

Adobe Xd
CSS
Figma
HTML
Invision
JavaScript
Sketch
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Flagship Pioneering Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Office

55 Cambridge Parkway, Suite 800E, Cambridge, MA, United States, 02142

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