Job Description

UX Researcher II

Location: New York, NY
Duration: 6 months, extendable

The Foundation Model group within Prescient Design, the AI for Drug Discovery team in Genentech 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 Client 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 at Genentech. 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 Client to translate complex user needs from diverse groups across Client 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.

MUST-HAVE Qualifications

• Bring 3-5+ years of exp erience 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.

Good-to-Have exp

• Experience with LLM-based applications and standardized protocols like MCP
• Experience working on internal tools with subject matter experts and stakeholders

Who We Are
Genentech, a member of the Client group and founder of the biotechnology industry, is dedicated to pursuing groundbreaking science to discover and develop medicines for people with serious and life-threatening diseases. To solve the world's 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.
Genentech is an equal opportunity employer & prohibits unlawful discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin/ancestry, age, disability, marital & veteran status.

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