Lead UI​/UX Designer

At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections, where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come.

Join Roche, where every voice matters.

GPS drives the business strategy at Roche from research to commercialization. GPS collaborates closely with teams across the organization to bring new therapies to the market and maximize the launched product portfolio. With your ability to work in detail yet see the big picture, you can influence the direction of the company in a disease area. At Roche, we offer you chances to create your career inside or outside of GPS.

With offices in 160 countries, we offer a truly international experience depending on where your interests take you.

• Accelerate Design with AI:
  Leverage cutting-edge, AI-driven UX/UI tools (e.g., AI-assisted wire framing, automated asset generation, predictive user testing) to dramatically shorten turnaround times from ideation to high-fidelity mock-ups
• Rapid Prototyping & Iteration:
  Enable ultra-fast prototyping and real-time visual adjustments to keep pace with the rapidly changing pharmaceutical and data environments
• Influence & Motivate Without Authority:
  Act as the strategic heart of cross-functional squads to energize, align, and motivate diverse stakeholders (Data Scientists, Product Owners, Business Leaders) toward a unified, user-centric vision without relying on hierarchical power
• Synthesize Complex Requirements:
  Translate mixed, highly technical, and potentially conflicting inputs into elegant, accessible, and intuitive visual analytics designs
• Lead Visual Implementation:
  Serve as the visual architect in analytical projects, providing proactive guidance and creative solutions to complex user experience challenges while positioning different technologies effectively to create a highly coherent, seamless user experience across Roche's entire analytical product portfolio
• Collaborate Dynamically:
  Work hand-in-hand with Dev Teams, Business Analysts, Project Managers, Scrum Masters, and end-users to translate complex medical and commercial data into highly functional development concepts
• Drive Business Value:
  Think beyond individual projects to focus heavily on outcomes that maximize business value, while engaging regularly in peer mentorship, coaching, and advocacy

• Education & Experience:
  
  You hold a Bachelor's degree in Design (e.g., interaction, graphic, visual communications, product), Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience, backed by a minimum of 5 years of UX design/visual analytics experience (with at least 3 years deeply embedded within the pharmaceutical or biotech industry)
• Proven Design Portfolio:
  You possess an online portfolio demonstrating a proven track record of designing high-impact analytical dashboards, complex data visualizations, or mobile/web data applications, alongside impeccable professional ethics and corporate integrity
• AI & Technical Tech Stack:
  You have demonstrated experience using AI utilities (e.g., generative design tools, AI-powered user testing simulators, advanced prototyping plugins) to optimize workflow efficiency, and proven experience designing for or working with visual analytics platforms such as Tableau, Power BI, Thoughtspot, D3.js, iOS apps, and web apps powered by R (Shiny) or Python (Dash/Streamlit)
• Data Literacy:
  You possess deep familiarity with global pharmaceutical data streams (syndicated sales, promotional & marketing data, longitudinal patient-level data, and payer data), with knowledge of primary market research or clinical/medical research data being a major plus
• Leadership &
  
  Soft Skills:
  
  You have a mastery of influence to champion conceptual ideas and rally cross-functional teams without direct authority, thrive in fast-paced environments managing tight timelines through agile methodology, possess exceptional communication skills to distill complex data concepts for executive stakeholders, and are flexible to undertake required business travel for regular internal and external meetings

We are looking for someone who thinks beyond the job offered - someone who knows that this position can be a rare springboard to many other opportunities at Roche.

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100'000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our…