Senior Product Designer, Platform & Device Interfaces

HighRes is a Beverly, Massachusetts–based life sciences lab automation company that partners with biotech, pharma, and research organizations to implement intelligent laboratory workflows. They are seeking a Senior Product Designer to own and unify the design of CellarioOS software and device interfaces, ensuring an intuitive experience for users in complex laboratory settings.

Responsibilities:

• Design across both CellarioOS software and device interfaces, unifying them under not just a shared design system, but a single visual design language that connects every touchpoint of the experience, from physical to digital
• Take complex, abstract technical requirements — from engineering, hardware constraints, or lab science itself — and distill them into clear user problems and needs the team can design against
• Own the experience of the Lab Designer tool and system visualization work, helping users understand and configure their lab at a glance
• Partner daily with the research and visual design members of your pod, and with Engineering and Product Management, from early concepting through shipped release
• Prototype rapidly with AI-enabled tools, moving from sketch to interactive, testable fidelity in days, not weeks
• Design and evaluate generative-interface patterns — UI that adapts, assembles, or responds dynamically to AI-driven input — as CellarioOS's agentic capabilities grow
• Contribute to co-design workshops, design reviews, and usability tests, and translate research findings into prioritized design decisions

Requirements:

• 6+ years of experience in product or UX design for complex SaaS, enterprise, or hardware-adjacent platforms
• Experience designing across both software and physical/hardware interfaces, or strong appetite to work across both
• Comfort working within and evolving a shared design system across multiple surfaces
• An AI-forward toolset: fluency prototyping with AI-assisted design and code tools, and hands-on experience designing generative or AI-adaptive interfaces
• Strong facilitation and storytelling skills — comfortable presenting to scientists, engineers, and executives alike
• Ability to translate complex, multi-step user journeys into interfaces that feel simple
• A portfolio showing shipped product work from a high-velocity team
• Ability to maintain consistent daily overlap with US Eastern Time hours, regardless of your location. We prefer candidates based in the EU, UK, Canada, or US
• Ability to travel as needed (10% Travel estimated)
• Prior experience designing for automation, scheduling, or CAD tooling software
• Exposure to accessibility standards (WCAG) and inclusive design
• Experience on scientific, laboratory, or factory-scale automation products
• Familiarity with agentic AI concepts — tool-calling, agent orchestration, human-in-the-loop workflows — as they apply to interface design