Lead Product Designer

Plasmidsaurus

Lead Product Designer at Plasmidsaurus owning the user experience from order to sequencing results. Collaborating with engineers and scientists in a biotech startup environment.

Posted 6/1/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $150,000 - $211,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the end-to-end product experience from ordering through sequencing results and raise the bar on every screen you touch.
Establish a design system for our UI and data visualization. You will focus on the sequencing results experience where most of our value reaches the customer.
Work with our engineers and bioinformaticians to turn complex workflows into intuitive software that makes the user think “*why did this not exist before*?”

Requirements

What you’ll need

You have a portfolio that shows range and craft. We want to see things that have made it to production.
A track record of operating semi-autonomously: ideally as a founding designer, senior IC, design lead, or similar role where the design decisions were yours to make and live with.
You can ramp fast in technical domains. We don’t require a science background, but you should be energized by complexity and willing to learn.
You are comfortable wearing the PM hat occasionally and making sure our user experience is reflected in product decisions.
You have experience designing for a deep technical domain or complex data visualizations.
You got obsessed with a problem and built something to solve it, even though nobody asked you to.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Ownership and impact. Your work goes directly to 70,000 scientists, including Nobel laureates, who trust Plasmidsaurus with their research.
A tower office in South San Francisco with bay views, state-of-the-art lab, and the occasional batch of liquid nitrogen ice cream.

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Hard Skills & Tools

UI designdata visualizationproduct designcomplex workflowsuser experience designdesign systemsprototypinginteraction designvisual designportfolio development

Soft Skills

autonomyproblem-solvingcollaborationadaptabilitycommunicationleadershipcreativitycritical thinkinguser empathyinitiative