Our mission is to make biology easier to engineer. Ginkgo is constructing, editing, and redesigning the living world in order to answer the globe’s growing challenges in health, energy, food, materials, and more. Our bioengineers make use of an in-house automated foundry for designing and building new organisms. Today, our foundry is developing over 40 different organisms to make different products across multiple industries. In recent months, we've been inspired and heartened by the tremendous public health response to COVID-19, and recognize that a similar scale of effort is needed by the biotech community to find long-term solutions to this crisis. In particular, testing is essential in order to resume our daily rhythms: communities need testing to reunite their people and culture. Businesses need testing to reopen their offices and provide confidence to their teams and stakeholders. And schools need testing to be able to reconvene their campuses and research communities. To respond to this acute and widespread need for COVID-19 testing, Ginkgo has developed a SARS-CoV-2 screening service - Concentric by Ginkgo - that is designed to provide broader access to COVID-19 diagnostic testing solutions. We’re building increased Foundry capacity to support high rates of testing frequency for our clients, offering an end-to-end, onsite testing service designed to test large communities of individuals. Performed at high-scale and high-throughput, this additional testing capacity will be essential for organizations, institutions, and companies to be able to reconvene their teams and reopen their communities. A critical component of Concentric by Ginkgo ’s testing service is its digital portal, supporting the full customer-facing experience of the brand. Specifically, this portal enables test takers to sign up, manage tests, and view their results; customers to organize tests and view aggregated results; and test supervisors to run sample collection events. Therefore, we’re looking for a highly talented and versatile Senior UX/UI Designer to define the visual identity of this portal, and lead the development of its overall design system. With your expertise in mobile and web application design, you’ll help to create a digital product that seamlessly integrates with our Concentric by Ginkgo brand. Plus, your acute understanding of how to effectively communicate information to users will ensure that test results are delivered with care, confidence, and dignity. Working within a fast-growing team - on a product that will reach millions of users - your role will be key to ensuring the success of this important initiative. Please note: this is a remote position for a fixed-term contract, which we are looking to fill immediately. We are seeking candidates who live, and are authorized to work, in the United States.
Responsibilities
Oversee the UI design for Concentric by Ginkgo ’s digital portal, bringing concepts from ideation to developer handoff.
Collaborate with an interdisciplinary team of service designers, delivery specialists, business development leaders, and other stakeholders to ensure that this product seamlessly integrates with our Concentric by Ginkgo brand.
Develop a visual identity that optimizes user-centric design, delivering COVID-19 test results with care, confidence, and dignity.
Create a design system that effectively communicates information to all users, including test takers, customers, and test supervisors.
Desired Experience and Capabilities
8+ years of experience in UX/UI design
Significant expertise in mobile and web application design
Acute understanding of how to clearly and effectively communicate information to users
Excellent attention to detail, with the ability to prioritize responsibilities in a fast-paced environment
Ability to vocalize opinions and challenge assumptions in a respectful and productive manner
Strong passion for accessibility and consistency in design, serving as an advocate for the user in all aspects of the decision-making process
Highly adept at communicating ideas and concepts to fellow team members
Experience designing for healthcare applications a plus
Availability to start as soon as possible
To learn more about Ginkgo, check out some recent press: Ginkgo Bioworks Awarded $40MM NIH RADx-ATP Contract to Expand High Throughput SARS-CoV-2 Testing (PR Newswire) Ginkgo Bioworks CEO on scaling up Covid-19 testing: ‘If we try, we can win’(CNBC) Ginkgo raises $70 million to ramp up COVID-19 testing for employers, universities (Boston Globe) Ginkgo Bioworks Redirects Its Biotech Platform to Coronavirus (Wall Street Journal) Ginkgo Bioworks Provides Support on Process Optimization to Moderna for COVID-19 Response (PRNewswire) The Life Factory: Synthetic Organisms From This $1.4 Billion Startup Will Revolutionize Manufacturing (Forbes) Synthetic Bio Pioneer Ginkgo Raises $290 Million in New Funding (Bloomberg) Ginkgo Bioworks raises $350 million fund for biotech spinouts (Reuters) Can This Company Convince You to Love GMOs? (The Atlantic)
We also feel it’s important to point out the obvious here – there’s a serious lack of diversity in our industry and it needs to change. Our goal is to help drive that change. Ginkgo is deeply committed to diversity, equality, and inclusion in all of its practices, especially when it comes to growing our team. We hope to continue to build a company whose culture promotes inclusion and embraces how rewarding it is to work with engineers from all walks of life. Making biology easier to engineer is a tough nut to crack – we can’t afford to leave any talent untapped.
It is the policy of Ginkgo Bioworks to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants.