UX Specialist job with Novartis (Cambridge, MA)

[Francis Rowland]

Hi there,

Just in case any of you are interested, have a look at the following. It is quite a list of requirements!

My contact there tells me that there may also be positions coming up in Switzerland, too.

Even if you're not cut out for this job, it is interesting to see that Novartis are getting things moving with respect to user experience design.

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This is a new role and UX is still in its infancy at NIBR. The focus is on internal drug discovery applications as well as business process applications. People are smart and passionate about what they do and you must be comfortable in a technical environment. We're looking for more of a generalist - team players who can turn around solutions quickly, want to create innovative designs and can be user advocates throughout the development cycles.

Send resumes and portfolios to Rachael Acker (rachae...@novartis.com) if you're interested. This position is in Cambridge, MA, and is a contract to hire position. Contracts are typically 6 months. Candidate must be on-site.

thanks,
Rachael


JOB INFORMATION:

The User Experience team at Novartis NIBR IT is looking for a User Experience Designer to work on internal drug discovery applications.  This role will work on a variety of areas including software, web, mobile and lab. You will work as a Design Lead on projects and will be expected to act as the user advocate throughout the product development lifecycle. You must thrive in a fast-paced environment, be able to communicate effectively with a wide range of audiences, and be able to produce usable artifacts on the fly.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
·       Create wireframes and workflows.
·       Translate business requirements into documented navigation paths, UI page layouts, wireframes and/or storyboards.
·       Comfortable presenting user interface concepts, designs and functional requirements to large groups of design partners.
·       Develop personas, user scenarios, and other analysis documents to inform the design.
·       Develop UI prototypes and document user interface design standards and guidelines.
·       Facilitate user interviews, field research, joint application design (JAD) sessions, focus groups, and usability tests to ensure that user input is gathered throughout the product lifecycle.
·       Manage multiple projects at the same time and be able to prioritize tasks and set expectations.

EXPERIENCE
·       Ability to write clean, precise and detailed Information Architecture documents (mockups, wireframes, interaction diagrams)
·       Experience working with Business Analysts and Subject Matter Experts in a User Experience product development lifecycle.
·       Knowledge of the software engineering process, problem solving and decision-making ability.
·       Ability to multi-task and react positively to frequent changes in priorities
·       Ability to build and manage working relationships with IS team and business users
·       High level of project organization, attention to detail, and time management
·       High level of motivation to solve existing problems while anticipating new issues
·       Ability to lead a cross-functional team to consensus.
·       Manage changes to existing systems to ensure that they fit with the long-term strategy.
·       Experience working in cross-functional teams as the UX role.

DESIRED
·       Experience with Agile development methodologies.
·       Experience with JIRA or similar tool for tracking software requirements, changes and releases.
·       Biology and/or Chemistry domain knowledge
·       Experience with Axure, Visio, Balsamiq for wireframes and prototyping
·       Experience with Confluence (web-based corporate Wikis) to organize, maintain and communicate UI implementation guidelines and functional requirements.
·       Experience with data visualization tools like Spotfire a plus

QUALIFICATIONS
·      Masters Degree in HCI, Human Factors, Psychology, or related field to User Experience.
·       10+ years creating strong user experiences.
·       Minimum of 5 years designing detailed wireframes and specifications for software, websites, RIA, and/or mobile applications

NOVARTIS
Novartis (NYSE: NVS) is a world leader in the research and development of products to protect and improve health and well-being. The company has core businesses in pharmaceuticals, vaccines, consumer health, generics, eye care and animal health.
Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR)
Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR) is Novartis’ global pharmaceutical research organization. Informed by clinical insights from our translational medicine team, we use modern science and technology to discover new medicines for patients worldwide.
With talented scientists located in six locations around the world, we are committed to leveraging knowledge we gain from our own innovative research and discoveries made at leading academic institutions and biotechnology companies.
Over the past several years, Novartis has had the greatest number of new molecular entities approved by the FDA for clinical use in the US. With our ongoing focus on diseases with unmet medical needs, NIBR scientists ensure that Novartis maintains its robust pipeline and successful track record in innovative drug discovery.

Software Architecture and Solutions Team (SAS)
SAS is a group of software infrastructure and application development professionals that collaborate with the science specific NITAS IS teams to deliver commercial enterprise class software applications and solutions.
The SAS team provides expertise in database design, services architecture, application design, user experience design, and development methodology and tools.  Nebula is a software development methodology and associated tool set developed by and for NIBR application developers.
SAS is not just a consulting organization.  SAS expertise is constantly applied to the development of complete applications as solutions.