Senior Platform Designer

Are you a senior designer who wants to shape how a complex clinical platform evolves across genomics, oncology, imaging, and real-world data? Join our Platform Design & Innovation team to own cross-cutting design problems across SOPHiA DDM™: a multimodal platform serving geneticists, pathologists, oncologists, bioinformaticians, and pharma researchers in one of the most consequential domains in healthcare.

You'll design for expert users operating under clinical pressure, not for consumer simplicity, and your work will directly influence what gets built across variant interpretation, oncology decision support, radiomics, and research data access. This is a role where design changes outcomes, and where the complexity is the point.

If you are a designer who earns trust with engineers and PMs from your credible technical background, moves fast from research to prototype to validation, and wants a clear path toward leading a design function — join the SOPHiA GENETICS Platform Design & Innovation team as our new Senior Platform Designer, and help us make a positive impact on the outcomes for cancer and rare disease patients worldwide. This is a senior individual contributor role with a clear path to team leadership.

Enjoy the flexibility of a hybrid work schedule allowing 2 days PW home working, collaborating closely with colleagues in our Rolle, CH or Bidart, FR corporate office.

Our Mission

We believe there is a smarter, more data-driven way to make decisions in healthcare and our cloud-native AI powered SOPHiA DDM Platform makes that vision a reality on a daily basis. You will have direct input to our mission to democratize data-driven medicine for the ultimate benefit of cancer and rare disease patients across the globe.

Your Mission

As our Senior Platform Product Designer, you will combine genuine product design depth with rapid prototyping capability and the product judgment to drive design decisions from user research through to shipped features.

The Platform Design & Innovation (PDI) is the team responsible for how DDM evolves as a platform: cross-cutting design patterns, the design system, high-value product initiatives, and the translation of complex clinical requirements into coherent product experiences across all application teams.

This is not a role for someone whose strength is visual polish. It is a role for a designer who thinks in workflows and mental models, who holds product judgment conversations with engineering and PM, and who produces work that changes what gets built.

The value you bring:

Work at expert-user depth - across diverse user groups

• Conduct research with users across the platform’s range: genomics experts operating at high information density (geneticists, pathologists, bioinformaticians), oncologists and clinicians using Carepath for treatment decision support, and pharma researchers accessing real-world data through DataHub. These are not the same user; designing well for each without fragmenting the platform is the hard problem.
• Design for appropriate complexity, not for consumer simplicity. Expert users read variant tables and imaging reports under clinical pressure; pharma researchers need research-grade data access with audit controls; oncologists need actionable summaries without losing access to underlying evidence. Your designs must match the cognitive model of whoever is in front of the screen.
• Balance clinical workflow fidelity with IVD regulatory constraints: traceability, audit trail, accessibility, and the interaction patterns that survive regulatory review.

Own cross-platform design problems

• Lead the design of major DDM platform workflows across the full product surface: variant triage and interpretation in the genomics platform, oncology decision-support workflows in Carepath, multimodal data views that combine genomic and imaging signals, and DataHub experiences for clinical and pharma research users.
• Define and evolve the cross-surface interaction patterns that give the platform coherence: how data from different modalities is presented together, how classification decisions are recorded and traced, how clinical and research users with different expertise levels navigate the same underlying data.
• Govern and evolve the DDM design system in collaboration with engineering: component usage, token standards, interaction primitives, and the documentation that makes the system usable across teams.

Prototype and validate

• Build interactive prototypes to compress the time between concept and clinical feedback. Use whatever tooling compresses that cycle, (AI-assisted code, low-code scaffolding, or hand-crafted HTML) with the goal of getting something real in front of users quickly.
• Run validation sessions with clinical users, oncologists, and pharma partners early and continuously. Treat user research as a design input, not a sign-off step.

Partner with engineering, product, and cross-team stakeholders

• Work alongside platform engineering as a peer. Translate between the language of design (workflows, mental models, jobs-to-be-done) and the language of engineering (APIs, data models, performance, security). The role succeeds when both teams move faster because of how well you operate at that boundary.
• Collaborate with Product Owners and Product Managers across application teams — HemOnc, Solid Tumor & LBx, RID, Carepath, DataHub. PDI’s mandate is transversal: you do not sit within one team’s scope, you influence platform-level decisions across all of them. That requires earning trust with POs and PMs who have their own roadmaps and priorities, and shaping shared vision without direct authority.

Grow towards team leadership

• Build influence across engineering, product, data science, clinical stakeholders, and executive leadership. Raise the quality bar for design artifacts across teams. Develop readiness for team leadership: mentoring junior designers, shaping team process, and taking ownership of a design function.

Requirements

Experience & Craft

• A track record as a senior product or platform designer or product manager in regulated environments (HealthTech, MedTech, scientific software) where users are domain experts — clinical, scientific, or technical SaaS where workflows are genuinely complex and simplification is not the answer.
• A portfolio of shipped work showing product judgment: hard tradeoffs, designs evolved through validation, and clear evidence that your involvement changed what got built, designed for multiple, distinct user groups.
• Experience designing information-dense, data-heavy interfaces: tables, filters, multi-step clinical or scientific workflows, multimodal data views.

Product and Technical Fluency

• Comfortable working close to code and close to product: you can author requirements and acceptance criteria, hold a meaningful conversation with engineers about implementation constraints, and build prototypes that go beyond static mockups.
• Hands on technical experience in development/engineering and product development earlier in your career.

Domain and Leadership

• Genuine curiosity about the domain, clinical genomics, imaging, and real-world data are technically rich and humanly consequential. The best designers in this space find the complexity more interesting, not more intimidating.
• Grounded understanding of AI/ML in a clinical context. Experience extending AI/ML features within a regulated product
• Excellent communicator and influencer across audiences including genomics experts, oncologists, pharma partners, engineers, Product Owners, executives. You can tell the story of a design decision in the language of whoever is in the room.

Benefits

You will be joining an organization with the patient at the heart of every decision and action, driven by purpose as we pursue exponential growth.

Business recognition and accolades include:

• World's most innovative companies (Top 10)
• World's smartest companies (Top 50)
• 100 Best Places to Work in Boston
• Top 10 European Tech Startup
• Top 10 European biotechs startup to watch
• Top 25 East-Coast Biotech to watch

Our benefits package is comprehensive, but varies internationally in-line with local standards and laws. You can discuss a full breakdown with us, but as a brief overview:

• Sickness and Accident coverage through Helsana
• Meal Vouchers at 90CHF PM with our partner cafeteria
• A fun and engaging work environment, with Rest & Entertainment space, full stocked free coffee machine and free fruit/snacks
• Free parking in an easy to access location
• A strong social committee whose purpose is to make SOPHiA GENETICs both enjoyable as well as rewarding
• As our global HQ, you’ll have direct interaction and exposure to senior leadership and our executive team locally

Our DNA

Like the strands of DNA itself, SOPHiA GENETICS and the team are deeply interconnected and reliant on each other to deliver. There are common threads across the team. Things that bind us together. Those things are Relentless Curious; Resilient & Nimble and Fearlessly Adventurous

Our Virtues

At SOPHiA GENETICS we established our 7 Virtues to clarify how our principles show up each day through action. We Decide; We Do; We Collaborate; We Innovate; We Empower; We Adapt and We Learn.

At the centre of our Virtues is our Mantra, We Care, which provides a constant reminder of the compassionate, benevolent, and hopeful nature of our mission and how it should be threaded through each of our Virtues and everything we do. Learn more about our DNA and Virtues on our Careers portal

The Process

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Apply now with your CV and any supporting information.

Suitably qualified candidates will be invited through an interview and screening process where you will speak with members of our Talent Acquisition Team, the hiring leader alongside key colleagues and stakeholders from across the business.

If you need additional support or accommodations for accessibility, please contact our TA team for assistance on [email protected]. SOPHiA GENETICS recruiters only contact candidates from @sophiagenetics.com addresses and never request payment at any stage. Verify any offer before responding.

We appreciate the value external partners can bring, but we operate a direct-hiring model and we are not looking to utilize agency support at this time. All hiring is controlled by Talent Acquisition, potential partners should liaise through TA and not our hiring teams please.

Starting Date: ASAP

Location: Rolle, CH or Bidart, FR (Hybrid)

Contract: Permanent