Tetsuwan Scientific

Product Designer

San Francisco, CA

Sponsorship not specified$120k-$160kDetected 49 days ago

Node.jsA/B TestingFigmaUX ResearchLogisticsResearch

About the role

Part of our philosophy is to surface every editable detail to the scientist, so they retain full control over how decisions are made from pdf protocol to code.
You will be tackling problems with few points of comparison, doing user research, shaping the information architecture, designing the interface, and watching real scientists use what you make.

You'll be the first dedicated product designer on the team, working alongside our current designer (who has been splitting design work with engineering), software engineers, automation engineers, and the founders.
The right person will grow into owning design end-to-end.
This poses a major design challenge.
Surfacing this level of control to the users while making the UI a pleasant experience means we need to design novel interfaces to communicate lab automation to scientists.

You have 3+ years professional experience designing software products
You can run a project end-to-end: research, sketches, prototypes, polished UI, and a clean handoff to engineers
However, the engineering and validation time required for automating these machines means they are rarely used with the exception of the most repetitive, high throughput research tasks.
Familiarity with frontend work and the interplay between design and technical trade-offs
Compensation: $120K - $160K · Offers Equity
Process: intro call → portfolio review and design conversation → onsite with the team including a paid design exercise → references → offer.

Experience designing for the life sciences, lab workflows, or any technical domain where the user is an expert in something you're not.
Familiarity with dev-tool or visual programming tools: projectional editors, node graph tools, program state visualization, errors and diagnostics.
Startup or small-team experience, especially earlier stage.
A side practice - illustration, motion, printmaking, ceramics, anything that means you make things for the love of it.

Fluency in Figma and adjacent tools
You're comfortable with multi-discipline technical complexity. You should want to talk to our engineers and learn from our scientists

Process: intro call → portfolio review and design conversation → onsite with the team including a paid design exercise → references → offer.

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We're a small team in San Francisco, currently raising our seed round and growing quickly.
Joining now means shaping the product, the team, and the company at a stage where your decisions matter.

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