Product Designer

Introduction to role:

At AstraZeneca, we put patients first by addressing unmet needs worldwide. Our culture fosters entrepreneurship, bold thinking, collaboration, and curiosity about science's potential to deliver breakthrough medicines.

Global Business Services (GBS) is a diverse, inclusive, and innovative team delivering shared services that enable AstraZeneca to evolve rapidly. We streamline vital repeatable processes, creating exceptional value that empowers business units to focus on advancing scientific boundaries for patient benefit.

Are you a Product Designer who turns complex, ambiguous problems into clear, human experiences that scale? Imagine shaping intuitive tools and journeys that help teams discover, develop and deliver medicines faster, with measurable impact on patients and the business.

About the Role:

In this role, you will partner with product managers, engineers and domain experts across research, development and commercial functions to design end-to-end experiences—grounded in evidence, prototyped rapidly and delivered with craft. How will you use data, visualisation and AI-informed patterns to reduce friction, clarify decisions and accelerate outcomes for thousands of users worldwide?

You will join a high-energy team that learns fast, collaborates deeply and ships meaningful improvements continuously. Your work will connect day-to-day design decisions to strategic outcomes—improving usability, speed to insight and confidence across our digital products.

Accountabilities:

• Design Strategy and Discovery: Frame abstract problems into concrete opportunities through UX research, critical thinking and clear recommendations that influence product direction.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Guide stakeholders through the design process, align on priorities and partner with product and engineering to deliver solutions that balance user needs and business goals.
• Data-informed Design: Use quantitative and qualitative evidence to define success metrics, inform decisions and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Prototyping and Systems: Lead prototyping as a team sport to de-risk decisions, validate concepts and maintain design principles from idea to implementation; apply visual design, data visualisation and AI best practices to create clear, intuitive experiences.
• Feedback and Iteration: Establish feedback loops, run structured critiques and evolve designs in agile sprints to improve team performance and delivery quality.
• Outcome Ownership: Connect design work to measurable outcomes such as task completion, time-to-decision, error reduction and adoption; communicate impact to stakeholders.
• Enablement and Standards: Contribute to design systems, accessibility and patterns that scale across products and teams to raise consistency, speed and quality.
• Learning and Innovation: Explore new technologies and methods, integrate learnings into your practice and share knowledge to elevate the team.

Essential Skills/Experience:

• Embrace a user-centred and critical thinking approach to problem-solving.
• Frame abstract problems into concrete solutions via UX Research methods while providing your expert recommendations.
• Support the creation and development of product strategies that deliver at scale.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to identify and help prioritise requirements, guiding them through the different stages of product design development.
• Partner with customer leads and developers to define and deliver the best solutions.
• Utilise quantitative and qualitative data to inform design decisions, balancing business goals with user's needs.
• Use data to identify opportunities for product improvements and lead design efforts.
• Lead prototyping efforts as a team activity.
• Ensure that design principles are maintained throughout the development process and that the final product aligns with user needs and expectations.
• Understand Visual Design, Data Visualisation and AI best practices to design clear and intuitive experiences.
• Encourage a culture of continuous improvement by promoting feedback loops and iterative design processes.
• Adapt and reflect on Agile practices to optimize team performance and delivery.
• Keeping open to learn new technologies and topics, while integrating them in your design process will be key.

Desirable Skills/Experience:

• Portfolio showcasing end-to-end product design from discovery through delivery, highlighting measurable outcomes.
• Experience designing complex, data-rich or enterprise-scale products; familiarity with regulated environments such as healthcare or life sciences.
• Fluency with modern design and prototyping tools (e.g., Figma) and contribution to design systems and component libraries.
• Strong command of accessibility principles (e.g., WCAG) and inclusive research practices.
• Comfort with experimentation methods, product analytics, telemetry and defining success metrics.
• Ability to communicate design decisions clearly, influence roadmaps and facilitate workshops with senior stakeholders.

Desired Courses / Certificates

• Enterprise Design Thinking or UX Strategy
• Foundations Data and Coding Literacy
• Product Management
• Change Management

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That's why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we're not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.

Why AstraZeneca:
Here, your craft meets a mission that matters. You will design alongside scientists, engineers and strategists who bring unexpected perspectives together to spark new solutions, with strong investment in digital, data and the tools that help you do your best work. We blend ambition with care—valuing kindness alongside high standards—and back it with continual learning, coaching and real autonomy to grow. Your designs will be put to work across a global footprint, making complex decisions clearer, speeding insights and helping deliver medicines that change lives.

Bring your portfolio and your curiosity, and help us design the next generation of patient- and data-centric products—step forward and shape what’s next today.

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AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity.  We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills.  We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.  We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics.  We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.