UX/UI Designer

Life Science Connect•,

3d•$65 - $100•Remote

About The Position

Life Science Connect is hiring its first dedicated UX/UI Designer to modernize the user experience across its 15 industry websites, email newsletters, sponsor-facing products, supplier directories, and RFP Navigator platform. The designer will partner with product to imagine and shape experiences for readers and customers, then create finished, buildable designs across web, email, and SaaS. The role works day-to-day with the Senior Product Manager, Audience & Data, alongside engineering, editorial, and commercial teams. The role begins as a 1099 contract as soon as possible, at approximately 22–28 hours per week. Life Science Connect plans to convert it to a full-time position in Q1 2027 and is seeking someone interested in that full-time role. Initial work includes refining and extending the website design system and components for a CMS migration; creating a modular email system and adapting it to approximately 26 newsletter templates; and refreshing the RFP Navigator marketing site, onboarding, and core RFP workflows. Future roadmap work includes interactive AI content experiences, personalized on-site and reader-agent experiences, and self-service data products for clients. The position is remote and includes a weekly working session with the Product Manager, with additional reviews as needed. Figma is used for design, specifications, and handoff, along with shared tools for tickets and feedback. Life Science Connect owns all work product. The company does not offer visa sponsorship.

Requirements

Approximately 5–7 years of professional UX/UI design experience.
A portfolio demonstrating work in at least two of these areas: B2B SaaS or web application UX, content or media websites, and email or newsletter design.
Strong Figma skills, including experience working within another team's design system.
Responsive design skills and clean developer handoff practices.
Practical knowledge of email design constraints, including client rendering, mobile stacking, dark mode, and image-off fallbacks.
Working knowledge of accessibility standards, WCAG 2.x AA.
Fluency with AI tools, with examples of using them in a design workflow.
Ability to take direction, work independently, and communicate progress proactively.
Ability to clearly present design thinking to product, editorial, and commercial stakeholders.
Interest in converting to the planned full-time position in Q1 2027.
Must be able to work without visa sponsorship.

Nice To Haves

Mobile app UX experience.
HTML/CSS skills, especially for email, or the ability to take designs closer to code or create a working prototype.
Life sciences, B2B publishing, or media experience.
Experience with data products, dashboards, AI interfaces, or conversational interfaces.
Experience designing against a coded component library such as Storybook or Chromatic.

Responsibilities

Partner with product to brainstorm and shape experiences, products, and interfaces for readers and customers.
Redesign, refine, and extend website templates and design-system components, including a sponsored Related Content sidebar, sponsor Storefront microsite pages, and a searchable supplier directory with tiers and filters.
Roll out website design changes across all 15 site themes.
Design a modular email system and adapt it to approximately 26 editorial, sponsored, and personalized newsletter templates.
Refresh the RFP Navigator SaaS platform, including its marketing site, onboarding, and core RFP workflows for drug developers and CDMO/CRO respondents.
Turn product requirements, briefs, and rough prototypes into wireframes and high-fidelity Figma designs for desktop, tablet, and mobile, covering empty, loading, error, logged-in, and anonymous states.
Present design options and iterate with the Product Manager, typically through two or three review rounds per page type.
Work within the existing Figma design system and Storybook component library in Chromatic, reusing existing components and adding new components to the shared library.
Specify layout, spacing, typography, color tokens, interactions, responsive rules, content and data rules, WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility, and analytics events for developers.
Answer developer questions and review implemented pages against designs before release.
Use AI tools to work more efficiently and help the team adopt them.