Chemaxon is an industry-leading cheminformatics software company helping early-stage drug discovery and chemistry research for more than 25 years. Our clients are top pharmaceutical companies, innovative biotech startups, and leading academic institutions.
We are agile, innovative and friendly, offering compelling opportunities for frequent collaboration and cross-training with teammates and stakeholders
We have been acquired by Certara, a US-based model-informed drug development services and software company. We are in an exciting time of organizational and business growth, so now is the perfect time to join our team!
We are looking for an experienced UX Designer who is willing to dive into our special domain and help to change the perception of data-heavy B2B tools. We work with scientists on a daily basis which is challenging and super exciting at the same time.
You would join a team of four UX Researchers and two full-time UX Designers working on some truly inspiring complex projects. Our team spends most of its time in cross–functional product teams but we do have a horizontal operation where you can expect topics like UX maturity, design principles, Product lead growth UX metrics, design patterns, accessibility, JTBD. Yes, we have a design system, called Origin which has an extensive component library in Figma.
You will be part of the team who is working on one of our most exciting products, a chemical drawing tool called Marvin. You can have a guess where the name comes from during our first call.
This is one of our core chemistry tools so you need to be open to dive into chemistry but we don’t expect you to have a deeper understanding at this point than what you picked up during your high school studies.
The tool is all about interactions with chemical and graphical elements where the tiny details make the difference in users' perceived experience. One senior UX Designer and two UX Researchers will help you in your everyday work beside those developers who are already infected by the importance of UX. The team itself sits on the higher end of the UX maturity spectrum so you should expect strategic discussions with the Product Manager, constructive arguments with the developers and a lot of inputs from the researchers and domain experts.
About your responsibilities
- Proactively increase UX maturity on the team level based on CXN maturity model
- Drive common understanding by clearly communicate design decisions and the reasoning behind them
- Drive consistent user experience by providing design deliverables (e.g.: High fidelity prototypes,UI screen designs /by using our design system/, user flow diagrams, developer handoff...)
- Drive cross-discipline ideation by facilitating workshops
- Drive idea validation by using different prototyping methods
- Support user research - together with user researchers - by emphasizing the importance of user needs, actively involving team members in research activities and making knowledge accessible by anyone.
- Support Design Operation activities on the horizontal level
- Support cross-collaboration by proactively involve internal stakeholders
- Support the product vision and business goals with UX strategy
Experience, skills and knowledge you should bring to us
- The ideal candidate will possess an energetic personality with excellent communication skills, attention to detail, and patience.
- Candidate must be able to excel in a dynamic, hands-on and creative environment.
- Collaboration skills working across UX team, product owners and domain specialists.
- Fluency in different UX processes such as Design Thinking and Double Diamond
- Strong foundation in the field of Interaction Design
- Deep knowledge of Information Architecture
- Comprehensive knowledge of different prototyping tools and techniques
- Hands-on knowledge of the different facilitation & workshop techniques
- Basic knowledge & experience in general generative and evaluative user research methods (e.g.: user interview, usability study, survey)
- Basic understanding of Visual Design principles
- Basic understanding of different UX metrics
- Basic knowledge of agile development processes
- Highly proficient in spoken and written English
What we offer
- Hybrid-way of working (8 days/month home office)
- Private health insurance (Medicover)
- Daily entry into Life1 Fitness Clubs
- Generous annual training budget supporting your professional development (off-site training, international conferences, e-books)
- We work with global Top500 companies (R&D) and leading academic institutions, giving you a chance to gain insights into these dynamically evolving industries.
- Inspiring working environment - leisure and recreation area, playing corner for children, English lessons, yearly user conference with social programs, innovation days
- You will be a valued member of a creative and supportive agile team
- Everyday use of English in a multicultural environment
Location: Budapest, Váci Greens Office Park
For some info on Chemaxon, you can check out these videos:
- a shorter one about what we do in a nutshell (~1.5 min)
- and one about the Budapest HQ (~30 min)
Please note, we’re unable to support relocation or sponsor visa for this role.
Similar Jobs
.png)
What We Do
So, briefly: who are we?
Chemaxon is a leading cheminformatics company, with headquarters in Budapest, Hungary and offices in the US and Switzerland
And what do we do?
We provide chemical software development platforms mostly for the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries - but any chemist might find us useful.
Why do our users prefer us?
Because we are known for our rapid and high quality technical support, we develop our tools together with our users (the reason we have good quality software); and because we support academic research and teaching like no one else in the industry!
All right, so exactly what are we good for?
Well, among many other things, you can draw & view chemical structures with Marvin Suite; manage and search your compounds with JChem tools; search your database in Excel or in our Instant JChem interface; perform a variety of calculations and predictions; cluster, screen, fragment or synthesize your compounds virtually and deal with Markush structures.
That's it really in a nutshell. If you are interested, contact us or post a message here.
