Senior Designer

Title: Senior Designer

Location: Milan Metropolitan City of Milan IT

Type: Full-time

Workplace: Hybrid remote

Job Description:

Empatica

Empatica is a full-stack digital healthcare company and a pioneer in digital biomarker development and continuous patient monitoring driven by AI. Our platform consists of medical-grade smartwatches, software, physiological and behavioral digital biomarkers. Together they enable the continuous remote monitoring of human health across a range of conditions, through clinical-quality digital measurements.

Your ultimate call is to improve lives around the world, as part of a cross-functional teams who share knowledge and are eager to keep learning and pushing to create top-notch products that have a meaningful impact.

If you are looking to join a fast-paced growth environment and do meaningful work that can make a true impact in the world, then keep reading. 

About the role

We are looking for a profile that lies at the intersection of industrial and service design. 

The designer will be part of the design team which cross-functionally works with Product Managers, Full stack Software Engineers, Hardware Engineers, Regulatory Specialists and Data Scientists to develop meaningful products that improve people’s lives and healthcare knowledge around the world. According to the seniority, the role might also deal directly with the management, given that Empatica has a relatively flat organisation which encourages proactivity and impact over formality.

The designer will lead the investigational expansive phase, supporting the cross-functional teams with service designer tools and practices, being able to empower the contribution with a strong industrial design sensitivity and keep exploring the boundaries when the hardware comes into the game.

Some examples:

• Work on a wide range of projects, from a service conceptualisation to proof of concept, from agile feature updates to brand new hardware products. 
• Work proactively to generate user requirements, wireframes, scenarios, flowcharts, design prototypes, and design specifications, applying best practices and standards related to user experience and information architecture across all Empatica product ecosystem.
• Ensure industrial designs and user interfaces communicate consistent, effective experiences and are in alignment with the product strategy
• Building an Industrial Material Design System
• Coordinate with other senior designers and specialists

Requirements

HARD SKILLS

• Love what you do and have an opinion about things
• Have a strong design lead capability, combined with excellent execution skills and autonomy
• Have a degree in Design or a relevant field and/or post-graduate courses
• Have 6+ years of experience as a (Full stack) designer as well as a strong portfolio of related projects, including Service Design and Industrial Design projects 
• Master the use of prototyping and production design tools related to both service and Industrial Design fields, like Figma, 3D modeling and rendering package (Cinema 4d, Redshift), Adobe Suite 

SOFT SKILLS

• Have a solid and ever-expanding knowledge base, also in other design-related fields
• Have a pragmatism well grounded in reality that helps you to parse complex data and information “to get to the point” quickly and effectively
• Have a get-things-done attitude, and done impeccably
• Have proficient communication skills in English (Italian not needed)

Some important details:

• Empatica operates in an international environment with offices in Europe, the US, and Korea. All work is conducted in English.
• We are operating a hybrid model where our employees choose whether to work from home or come to the office, however, please note that this position is not fully remote.

Life at Empatica

You will join a fast-growing, international, and diverse team of 110+ talented people who care passionately about what we do and the difference we are making in the world. You’ll get the opportunity to work directly with colleagues across all levels of the organization, no matter their seniority, and learn from the people that built the business and our products.
If you jump on board, we can guarantee it won't be an easy ride, but it will be one of the most rewarding experiences in your career, one that will allow you to learn a lot, have true ownership of your work, and test your whole skillset on multiple projects which are helping thousands of people worldwide.

Read our blog post and find out some reasons why we love working at Empatica.

Inclusion & Diversity

At Empatica we embrace diversity and inclusion. We have colleagues from 30 different countries, while over 50% of our team is women (double the tech average!). We believe this makes Empatica a more exciting and stimulating place to work, and brings different points of view to the table while fostering a spirit of communication, collaboration, and care, where everyone’s opinion and thoughts matter.

Benefits

•  Multiple opportunities to be challenged and step up your career in a fast-growth company in one of the hottest areas of tech

•  Competitive salary
•  Employee stock options - we want everyone who joins us to own part of the company and our success
•  We have offices in Milan City Center and Downtown Boston. And every summer, we hold an amazing beach retreat in Sardinia, Italy
•  Health Insurance
•  Wellhub membership with access to gyms, online classes, personal training sessions, and nutrition plans
•  Membership for mental health and wellness platforms
•  Free healthy lunch every day
•  Free Kindle and books
•  Flexible working hours
• Much more…