Senior Design Researcher - Evinova

Job description

**WHY JOIN US?** Evinova is a health-tech business focused on accelerating better health outcomes by advancing digital transformation across the life sciences sector. By combining science-based expertise, evidence-led rigor, and deep human insight, we design digital solutions that enable healthcare to work better for everyone. Operating at the intersection of healthcare, technology, data, and analytics, we are helping unlock the full potential of digital health, transforming how clinical research is conducted, how care is delivered, and how patients experience healthcare. Our solutions are built to scale, driving efficiency, improving decision-making, and ultimately delivering better outcomes for patients worldwide. At Evinova, we are driven by a shared purpose to transform health through data and digital innovation. Our teams collaborate across disciplines to solve complex challenges, continuously learning and evolving in a fast-paced, high-impact environment. We also recognize the importance of flexibility and balance. Our ways of working support both individual needs and team collaboration. To foster connection and collaboration, **employees are expected to work from the office three days per week**, creating opportunities for in-person teamwork, innovation, and meaningful connection. **About the Role:** As a Sr. Design Researcher, you’ll help us transition to a working model that balances continuous discovery with publishable strategic research. In your role, you will support the cross-functional team as they lead their own high-quality discovery research. This will involve conducting research training workshops and guiding the creation and execution of the research. In parallel, you’ll lead research work that brings our thought leadership to the forefront through published articles, white papers and conference presentations that spotlight our long-shelf-life strategic research which informs our product strategy and design roadmaps. Moreover, you’ll be a key partner in shaping how we use AI as a creative collaborator, not just a tool — helping us move faster and more intelligently. This role requires a mindset that is not daunted by ambiguity or complexity. The evolving world of clinical trial design involves a wide variety of user profiles, multi-step workflows that play out over long periods of time and an incredibly high bar for quality. Success also means carrying a deep awareness of the regulatory and ethical requirements that are not only considerations for our product design responsibilities but also for those who use our tools. **Key Responsibilities:** - Accountable for the full spectrum of research activities and methods across different stages in the product lifecycle by either guiding cross-functional teams to conduct research or by designing and running research independently. - Collaborate closely with product, design and engineering leads to ensure cohesive research strategy and tight research objective to method alignment. - Translate highly technical workflows into meaningful artifacts, including user-friendly journey maps and user profiles. - Identify opportunities to use AI to expedite our research process without impacting quality, including using vibe coding to rapidly create prototypes for use in research sessions - Stimulate conceptual thinking and creativity and challenge the status quo towards continuous improvement. - Work closely with other researchers as well as design leads to ensure coherent user experience across user domains and products. - Ensure that cross-functional product teams are actively immersed in the research insights rather than passively listening to PowerPoint presentations. - Capturing research insights in product tools, like ProductBoard, and ensuring that our learnings inform the Evinova Design System. - Collaboratively partnering with the cross-functional team while also holding them accountable to ensure that research insights are appropriately reflected in the roadmap. - Mentor and develop junior researchers, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement within the team **We’re Looking For:** - **Deeply collaborative, T-shaped research practitioners** who can conduct or support (depending on the need in the moment) a wide variety of research methodologies from generative research to concept feedback sessions to rigorous usability studies, as well as run cross-functional training workshops to upskill product, design, data science and engineering peers to ensure that research outcomes are being appropriately infused into our Study Designer roadmap. - **Highly autonomous, self-directed researchers** who act with positive agency: seeking out new opportunities for collaboration, proactively navigating ambiguity, and shaping new practices as the context evolves - **Researchers with AI fluency** — not necessarily technical experts, but people who are curious and excited about working with generative and agentic AI as part of their research process - **People who thrive in complexity**, balancing near-term delivery with long-term vision, and who are energised by change and challenge rather than constrained by them This is a chance to help define not just the future of digital health — but the future of digital design in a world where the boundaries between people, tools, and disciplines are being redrawn in real time. **Key Attributes:** - Experience in independently leading research end-to-end, including foundational, generative and usability-focused methods - Expertise in tightly aligning research objectives to method - Exemplary command of both written and spoken English combined with ability to communicate with sophistication and clarity - Proficiency with online research tools and familiarity with rapid prototyping tools - Strong commitment to inclusive design, accessibility, and usability, and to delivering outcomes to key metrics - Excellent collaboration, and storytelling skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional teams - Experience in operating as an independent researcher on highly complex B2B or B2B2C software - Based in Toronto, with willingness to collaborate in-office with cross-functional teams - Willingness to travel for research, project delivery, and workshops - Ability to operate at pace and navigate changes in scope and approach based on shifting market signals and customer demand, while keeping up with evolving technology **We Also Value:** - Experience in healthcare and/or digital health sectors - Familiarity with clinical trials and the drug development lifecycle - Knowledge of human factors for medical device requirements and processes. - A non-linear career path and diverse life experiences that enrich your perspective as a designer - A second language (and every additional language is a plus) **SO, WHAT’S NEXT?** To be considered for this exciting opportunity, please complete the full application on our website at your earliest convenience – it is the only way that our Recruiter and Hiring Manager can know that you feel well qualified for this opportunity. If you know someone who would be a great fit, please share this posting with them. **Where can I find out more?** - Explore what we’re building: [](http://www.evinova.com/) - Stay connected and see our impact in action: **Apply today to bring smarter, faster clinical trials to life!** Evinova is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion and providing a workplace that is free from discrimination. Evinova is committed to accommodating persons with disabilities. Such accommodation is available on request in respect of all aspects of the recruitment, assessment and selection process and may be requested by emailing [AZCHumanResources@astrazeneca.com](mailto:AZCHumanResources@astrazeneca.com). #LI-Hybrid **⠀** Annual base salary for this position ranges from 147,292.80 to 193,321.80. AstraZeneca is committed to providing fair and equitable compensation opportunities to all colleagues. Our compensation policies and practices have been designed to allow colleagues to progress through the salary range over time as they progress in their role. The range provided in this posting represents an offer pay range used in a majority of situations. The base pay offered will vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including the candidate's skills and experience, job-related knowledge, and other specific business and organizational needs. In some cases, offers outside the range may also be considered to address unique circumstances. In addition, our permanent positions offer an annual Variable Pay Bonus/Short Term Incentive opportunity as well as eligibility to participate in our equity-based long-term incentive program (if applicable to role). Benefits offered for permanent roles include a competitive Flex Benefits & Retirement Savings Program, 4 weeks’ paid vacation, and annual Personal Days. Fixed Term Contract/Temporary positions (excluding students) are offered a Contract Benefits Program. We are using AI as part of the recruitment process. This advertisement relates to a current vacancy.