Senior Product Designer

CRIO is a health tech company focused on modernizing clinical research through innovative solutions. The Senior Product Designer will own the design of user experiences, drive design strategy, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure products meet user needs and enhance clinical trials.

Responsibilities:

• Lead user research initiatives, including interviews, usability testing, and analysis, translating findings into actionable design decisions
• Lead the design process from initial concept through final delivery, producing wireframes, user flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity mockups that clearly communicate intent to both stakeholders and engineers
• Apply and actively contribute to the design system, ensuring visual and interaction consistency, scalability, and reusability across the product portfolio
• Design for accessibility and champion inclusive design practices throughout the product development lifecycle
• Present and articulate design decisions clearly to stakeholders at all levels
• Work closely with engineers to ensure design intent is faithfully implemented, participating in sprint ceremonies as needed. Iterate on designs as needed, and review implemented designs before release

Requirements:

• 5+ years of Product Design experience developing user experiences and interface designs
• Experience owning end-to-end design work across one or more product areas — from discovery and research through to detailed interaction design and implementation
• Expertise in UX Design: wireframing, user journeys, interaction design, and prototyping
• Expertise in UI Design: branding, visual design, layouts, and high-fidelity mockups
• Hands-on experience creating, contributing to, and managing a design system
• Excellent communication skills for articulating complex design decisions and rationale to stakeholders at all levels
• Highly self-motivated with the ability to work independently and lead design projects in a team environment
• Ability to drive strategic design discussions and influence product direction
• Collaborative, flexible, and positive attitude towards teamwork
• Experience leading user research initiatives to uncover user needs and inform design decisions
• Solid knowledge of WCAG accessibility standards and how to apply and champion them in practice
• Working knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to effectively communicate with developers
• Proficiency in Figma
• Candidates must present a portfolio of previous product design work to be considered for this role
• Experience with clinical data workflows, eClinical vendor systems, or regulated software environments
• Background designing complex, data-heavy enterprise SaaS products
• Familiarity using AI tools as part of your design workflow — for ideation, prototyping, or research synthesis
• Familiarity with 21 CFR Part 11, HIPAA, CDISC ODM, HL7 FHIR, and GDPR compliance requirements