Principal UX/UI Designer (Individual Contributor)

About SciLeads: SciLeads is a remote, fast-growing SaaS company focused on providing market and sales intelligence to the life science industry. We’re an award-winning company and have been listed as one of Deloitte’s fastest growing tech companies for four years in a row. We are passionate about putting people first and committed to creating an outstanding employee experience as a remote working company.

About the Role: We are looking for an experienced Principal UX/UI Designer with a bias for action to shape and deliver exceptional user experiences across the SciLeads platform. You will translate product strategy and complex data-driven requirements into intuitive, smart, and high-impact user experiences that drive customer engagement and satisfaction. This role operates in a fast-paced, scale-up environment, success requires comfort with ambiguity, rapid context switching, high accountability, and the ability to make confident design decisions. You will lead the design of a cohesive AI powered user experience, elevating our platform in the areas of usability, accessibility, and ensuring it is visually compelling. You will also engage directly with customers and customer-facing teams to gather insights, validate design decisions, and ensure we build solutions that truly meet user needs.

Reporting to the Head of Product, this role is suited to someone with strong end-to-end SaaS platform design experience, a deep understanding of designing for data-rich SaaS environments, and the ability to influence stakeholders while delivering scalable, user-centric solutions.

Development Opportunities: This role offers significant opportunities for growth as SciLeads continues to scale its product and design capabilities, powered by AI. You will help define and evolve our design system, influence product direction, and shape how users interact with advanced analytics and market intelligence features. You will have the opportunity to mentor others, influence senior stakeholders, and progress into more senior design leadership roles as the company grows.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design Strategy: Proactively influence the product vision through a strong, user-centred design approach aligned to business goals; co-create and deliver a design roadmap aligned to product priorities and customer value; simplify complex, data rich product requirements into clear user journeys, wireframes, and high-fidelity designs; take full ownership of design outcomes including definition of success metrics and post launch impact; actively contribute to the evolution of AI-powered features and user experiences; contribute to and evolve the design system to ensure consistency and scalability across the platform.
• Product Design and Delivery: Lead end-to-end design from problem identification to delivery, ensuring quality and usability that improve engagement and adoption; collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, and Data teams to deliver seamless user experiences; design and ship intuitive interfaces for complex, data-driven features and AI-powered modules; continuously experiment with new AI capabilities to improve speed and quality; create wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity UI designs using modern design tools; measure and meaningfully improve key product analytics through rapid design iteration and experimentation; support Product and Commercial teams with design assets for launches and feature releases.
• Team Leadership & Mentorship: Act as a principal design leader within the team, setting standards for quality, consistency, and best practice; mentor and support a more junior designer, providing regular feedback, guidance, and UX / UI development support; foster a culture of continuous learning, design excellence, and user-centric thinking; support onboarding and development of new design team members as the team scales.
• Stakeholder Engagement & Customer Advocacy: Communicate design concepts, rationale, and decisions clearly to stakeholders; advocate for the user at every stage of the product lifecycle; stay close to customers through participation in interviews, testing, product advisory groups and collaboration with customer-facing teams; monitor post-launch performance and user behaviour to inform continuous improvement; represent design within the business and contribute to a strong design culture.

Essential Skills and Experience:

• Minimum 5 years’ experience designing UX/UI for SaaS platforms, ideally within Life Sciences or Healthcare and / or complex SaaS products.
• Proven experience leading end-to-end design of a full SaaS platform, redesigning SaaS platform and AI-powered features.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating user-centred design, problem-solving, and visual design excellence.
• Experience designing for complex, data-driven applications and analytics platforms.
• Proficiency in design tools such as Figma (or similar) and AI tools, including prototyping and design systems.
• Strong understanding of UX principles, interaction design, and usability best practices.
• Experience conducting user research, usability testing, and translating insights into design improvements.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to clearly articulate design decisions and influence stakeholders.
• Self-starter able to work independently and improve design processes.

Benefits:

• Fully remote working.
• £750 home office allowance.
• £200 personal & wellbeing development allowance.
• Private Healthcare & Dentalcare with Bupa.
• Pension Scheme.
• 25 days holiday plus public/bank holidays.
• A day off for your birthday!
• Women in Business NI Membership.
• A truly flexible working culture.
• Quarterly meet ups.

SciLeads is an equal opportunities employer, we welcome and encourage applications of all nationalities, backgrounds and genders. This job posting is for an active position in SciLeads. Our application process is designed to be quick and easy! We value your time, so we won’t ask you to rewrite your CV. All we ask is that you upload your CV and fill in all the mandatory fields. Any additional fields are for you to provide us with more information if you wish to do so.