Senior Platform Designer

As 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. The 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. Conduct 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. Design 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. Balance clinical workflow fidelity with IVD regulatory constraints: traceability, audit trail, accessibility, and the interaction patterns that survive regulatory review. Lead 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. Define 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. Govern 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. Build 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. Run validation sessions with clinical users, oncologists, and pharma partners early and continuously. Treat user research as a design input, not a sign-off step. Work 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. Collaborate 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. Build 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.

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. Enjoy 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. We 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.

• A 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.

• A 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.

• Experience designing information-dense, data-heavy interfaces: tables, filters, multi-step clinical or scientific workflows, multimodal data views.

• Comfortable 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.

• Hands on technical experience in development/engineering and product development earlier in your career.

• Genuine 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.

• Grounded understanding of AI/ML in a clinical context. Experience extending AI/ML features within a regulated product.

• Excellent 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.