Velsera
Europe / Remote
Reports to the Chief Strategy and Product Officer
Velsera builds software that turns complex biological data into research insight and clinical answers. Our platforms work across multi-omic and multi-modal data: genomics alongside proteomics, transcriptomics and other omics, together with imaging, clinical and real-world data, at the scale of some of the world's largest biomedical programs. Pharmaceutical companies, biotechs, public research initiatives and diagnostic laboratories use our products to advance precision medicine.
We run like a scale-up: small teams with real authority, fast decisions, and AI woven into how we work day to day. We measure ourselves on impact for our customers and, ultimately, for patients.
You'd be joining as the design authority for our Seven Bridges Platform and the leader of design at Velsera, just as we rebuild how we design, validate and ship. You report directly to the Chief Strategy and Product Officer, and decisions that take quarters elsewhere happen here in days. Our product managers have already started turning ideas into working, on-brand prototypes with AI and put them in front of customers within weeks. The design foundations that make that speed safe are yours to build and own: design tokens, a component library, and the patterns everyone works with.
That's the shape of your influence here. Product managers prototype with the system you build, you review what customers will see, and once a concept is validated, production design belongs to you: journeys that hold up across every state, edge case and installation. This is a product bioinformaticians, scientists and clinicians rely on every day, and you set its bar.
This is a hands-on leadership role. You'll manage our product designer working on the clinical side of our portfolio, you'll build the design function as it grows, and you'll keep doing the craft yourself. There's no large design team to inherit; there's one to create.
The product is changing as fast as the craft is. Our users increasingly work alongside AI in research and diagnostic workflows, with dense, high-stakes data from many sources. Someone needs to rethink the journeys, trust models and information design of software like ours for that reality. That is a key remit of this job.
This role won't suit everyone. If you're looking for a mature design organization with settled processes, you won't find that here yet. If you want to build the system a whole company designs with, lead design for products with real clinical stakes, and do it at scale-up speed, we should talk.
The first version of the design system is live, with tokens and core components in Figma and in code, and product managers are actually prototyping on top of it. You've reviewed working prototypes before they went in front of real customers, and what we shipped is better for it. You and the designer you manage have a real working rhythm, with clear goals and honest feedback, and it shows in the work. And your map of our experience debt is on the leadership table with a clear case for what to fix first.
You've spent seven or more years in product design, with senior ownership of user journeys on complex, data-heavy or scientific software.
Nice to have: experience with genomics, multi-omics, imaging, clinical or other life sciences data products, or another regulated domain; products delivered across multiple environments or installations; familiarity with component documentation tools like Storybook; experience establishing design practice in an engineering-led organization.
You get real authority over a core product and the design function itself, from day one, with a direct line to the Chief Strategy and Product Officer. You join a company that works the way it's asking you to work: AI-assisted, fast and hands-on. The work ends in research results and patient outcomes, which makes the pace worth it. And you won't inherit a design practice here; you'll build the one everyone after you inherits.
