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Job Details
Job#: 2085320
Job Description:
UX Researcher II
Large, international Medical Diagnostics and Pharmaceutical company is seeking a remote, highly skilled UX Researcher. Join our team to apply cutting edge technology to improve the lives and outcomes of cancer patients!
Description:
The Foundation Model group within Prescient Design, the AI for Drug Discovery team in our Computational Sciences Center of Excellence (CS CoE) seeks exceptional UX researchers on a 6-month contract basis with demonstrated background in user testing and AI products. You will be the bridge between our users - world-class scientists and domain experts in biomedicine and drug development - and our development team.
The group provides a dynamic and challenging environment for cutting-edge, multidisciplinary research including access to heterogeneous data sources, close links to top academic institutions around the world, as well as internal partners and research units. Your mission will be to help refine and ensure our agentic framework is not only powerful but also intuitive, efficient, and enables the complex workflows of cutting edge drug discovery. You will champion a user-centered approach, translating deep user insights into a product that accelerates scientific breakthroughs.
The Role
Define Product Strategy Through UX Research: Lead end-to-end user research and usability testing to directly inform product decisions, identifying critical pain points in the scientific workflow, and uncovering new opportunities for agents and agentic frameworks.
Design and Execute Rigorous Usability Studies: Develop and implement a range of user testing methodologies, from contextual inquiries to heuristic evaluations.
Operationalize User Feedback: Build and manage a systematic process for gathering, analyzing, and tracking qualitative user feedback over time, helping the team monitor user satisfaction and make data-informed improvements to models, agents, and infrastructure.
Uncover Actionable Insights: Analyze qualitative data from user sessions, interviews, and surveys to identify core user behaviors, motivations, and obstacles. Synthesize these findings to reveal what drives user adoption and engagement.
Build a User-Testing Infrastructure: Create and maintain reusable testing protocols, participant recruitment pipelines, and insight repositories to elevate the quality and efficiency of user research across the organization.
Collaborate Deeply with a Cross-Functional Team: As part of the Foundation Model team, work closely with AI/ML Engineers & Scientists across Roche to translate complex user needs from diverse groups across Roche include Drug Discovery units and research findings into clear, actionable product direction.
Communicate with Clarity and Impact: Synthesize diverse qualitative & quantitative data to provide clear, compelling insights and recommendations. Effectively communicate your findings to both technical and non-technical audiences to drive user-centered decisions around product features and roadmap.
Qualifications
Bring 3-5+ years of experience conducting UX researcher and usability testing preferably with complex, expert-facing systems
3-5+ years of experience in qualitative and quantitative research, generative and usability research, longitudinal studies, data analysis, product experimentation, A/B testing, and user experience benchmarking.
Experience with UserTesting, Contentsquare or similar usability testing platforms
Have experience building and scaling a user research practice, including establishing processes for recruitment, testing, and knowledge management.
Know how to connect deep user insights to product strategy, roadmap decisions, and ultimately, scientific and business impact.
Possess strong analytical skills and are comfortable synthesizing complex, often ambiguous, qualitative data into clear, actionable themes
Enjoy tackling ambiguous, high-stakes problems and have a genuine curiosity for understanding the drug discovery process.
Communicate with clarity, empathy, and a strategic focus, capable of advocating for the user while understanding technical and business constraints.
Highly Preferred
Experience with LLM-based applications and standardized protocols like MCP
Experience working on internal tools with subject matter experts and stakeholders
What We Do
We are dedicated to pursuing groundbreaking science to discover and develop medicines for people with serious and life-threatening diseases. To solve the worlds most complex health challenges, we ask bigger questions that challenge our industry and the boundaries of science to transform society. Our transformational discoveries include the first targeted antibody for cancer and the first medicine for primary progressive multiple sclerosis.
EEO Employer
Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law. If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation in using our website for a search or application, please contact our Employee Services Department at or .
Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.
Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Apex team member can provide.
Job Description:
UX Researcher II
Large, international Medical Diagnostics and Pharmaceutical company is seeking a remote, highly skilled UX Researcher. Join our team to apply cutting edge technology to improve the lives and outcomes of cancer patients!
Description:
The Foundation Model group within Prescient Design, the AI for Drug Discovery team in our Computational Sciences Center of Excellence (CS CoE) seeks exceptional UX researchers on a 6-month contract basis with demonstrated background in user testing and AI products. You will be the bridge between our users - world-class scientists and domain experts in biomedicine and drug development - and our development team.
The group provides a dynamic and challenging environment for cutting-edge, multidisciplinary research including access to heterogeneous data sources, close links to top academic institutions around the world, as well as internal partners and research units. Your mission will be to help refine and ensure our agentic framework is not only powerful but also intuitive, efficient, and enables the complex workflows of cutting edge drug discovery. You will champion a user-centered approach, translating deep user insights into a product that accelerates scientific breakthroughs.
The Role
Define Product Strategy Through UX Research: Lead end-to-end user research and usability testing to directly inform product decisions, identifying critical pain points in the scientific workflow, and uncovering new opportunities for agents and agentic frameworks.
Design and Execute Rigorous Usability Studies: Develop and implement a range of user testing methodologies, from contextual inquiries to heuristic evaluations.
Operationalize User Feedback: Build and manage a systematic process for gathering, analyzing, and tracking qualitative user feedback over time, helping the team monitor user satisfaction and make data-informed improvements to models, agents, and infrastructure.
Uncover Actionable Insights: Analyze qualitative data from user sessions, interviews, and surveys to identify core user behaviors, motivations, and obstacles. Synthesize these findings to reveal what drives user adoption and engagement.
Build a User-Testing Infrastructure: Create and maintain reusable testing protocols, participant recruitment pipelines, and insight repositories to elevate the quality and efficiency of user research across the organization.
Collaborate Deeply with a Cross-Functional Team: As part of the Foundation Model team, work closely with AI/ML Engineers & Scientists across Roche to translate complex user needs from diverse groups across Roche include Drug Discovery units and research findings into clear, actionable product direction.
Communicate with Clarity and Impact: Synthesize diverse qualitative & quantitative data to provide clear, compelling insights and recommendations. Effectively communicate your findings to both technical and non-technical audiences to drive user-centered decisions around product features and roadmap.
Qualifications
Bring 3-5+ years of experience conducting UX researcher and usability testing preferably with complex, expert-facing systems
3-5+ years of experience in qualitative and quantitative research, generative and usability research, longitudinal studies, data analysis, product experimentation, A/B testing, and user experience benchmarking.
Experience with UserTesting, Contentsquare or similar usability testing platforms
Have experience building and scaling a user research practice, including establishing processes for recruitment, testing, and knowledge management.
Know how to connect deep user insights to product strategy, roadmap decisions, and ultimately, scientific and business impact.
Possess strong analytical skills and are comfortable synthesizing complex, often ambiguous, qualitative data into clear, actionable themes
Enjoy tackling ambiguous, high-stakes problems and have a genuine curiosity for understanding the drug discovery process.
Communicate with clarity, empathy, and a strategic focus, capable of advocating for the user while understanding technical and business constraints.
Highly Preferred
Experience with LLM-based applications and standardized protocols like MCP
Experience working on internal tools with subject matter experts and stakeholders
What We Do
We are dedicated to pursuing groundbreaking science to discover and develop medicines for people with serious and life-threatening diseases. To solve the worlds most complex health challenges, we ask bigger questions that challenge our industry and the boundaries of science to transform society. Our transformational discoveries include the first targeted antibody for cancer and the first medicine for primary progressive multiple sclerosis.
EEO Employer
Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law. If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation in using our website for a search or application, please contact our Employee Services Department at or .
Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.
Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Apex team member can provide.
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