Co-op, UI-UX Designer
This application is for a 6-month student role from July - December 2023. Resume review begins in February 2022.
The Data Office of Biogen Digital Health generates tools, technologies and techniques that connect the patient journey living with complex disease in real world setting to scientific knowledge production, clinical improvement, and discovery processes and practices. We implement new technologies, design with the end user in mind, and assess how to best bridge gaps between our ability “to measure” and “to know”. We are seeking UI-UX Designers to work alongside clinical informaticists, data scientists, software developers, science and medical leaders, and platform architects.
Position Description
As a UI-UX Design co-op, you will work to understand end-user needs, workflow, and experience to enable the design and implementations of solutions to onboard users to new data and software products, applications, or features. You will join Agile Scrum teams and work alongside subject matter experts in fields like Real World Data, Distributed Clinical Trials, and ML Ops for Biomedical Image and Instrumentation Pipelines.
You will shadow multiple teams across the Data Office and our stakeholders, including data science, clinical operations, medical and science staff. You will observe, interview, and align stakeholder needs with opportunities to improve the user experience. You will also build data visualization frameworks to help bring data directly to users in order to improve their ability to derive insights from the intersection of their day-to-day work experience and the data lifecycle. In addition, you will generate mechanisms for understanding how explicit user desires intersect with the day-to-day utilization patterns of platforms and applications and create assessment frameworks to understand onboarding and utilization best practices driven by insights from things like application logs.
Deliverables during this co-op will include:
- Wireframes and mock-ups
- Personas, user stories, and user journey maps
- Data visualizations and dashboards
- Design documents
Example projects may include:
- Assessing gaps in onboarding and training materials for improvements, driven by application adoption
- Defining new features to improve clinical operations, study data management, or scientific knowledge creation
- Implementing dashboards and data visualizations to improve day-to-day operations of a global team
Qualifications
Candidates should have the following qualifications:
- Experience in user-centered design
- Understanding of mock-ups, visualizations, and wireframes and where each fit into a product lifecycle
- Interest in employing UI-UX design methodology across a number of Agile Scrum projects
- Experience working with web-based applications and “front-end” libraries like React.js
- Familiarity with cloud computing frameworks
Ideal candidates will also have interest or experience with:
- Deadline-oriented settings
- Data visualization tools or platforms (Tableau, PowerBI, Databricks)
To participate in the Biogen Internship Program, students must meet the following eligibility criteria:
- Legal authorization to work in the U.S.
- At least 18 years of age prior to the scheduled start date
- Be currently enrolled in an accredited college or university
Education
- Master’s or above in a relevant field (Computer Science, Public Health, Biomedical Engineering, Biology, Interaction Design)
- UI-UX specific coursework