DesignOps Manager

Join Evinova and help us deliver life changing medicines by supporting our advancements in digital R&D.

Evinova is a health-tech business, accelerating the delivery of better health outcomes by propelling the life sciences sector forward in digital health, from the inside. Through our application of science-based expertise, evidence-led rigour, and human experience-driven insight, our digital solutions are deliberately designed so that everyone can reach better health outcomes together. Evinova is a health-tech business within the AstraZeneca Group.

We are now looking for you who would like to join our Digital Health R&D team as a DesignOps Manager.

The Digital Health R&D Design team enables better healthcare experiences and outcomes, by designing digital solutions for clinical trials and real-world healthcare.

In this role you will be part of the Digital Health Office (DHO), an integrated, objective team, uniquely positioned to coordinate the planning, governance, and performance of Digital Health R&D.

As DesignOps Manager you will report to the Head of Digital Health Office with a dotted line to the head of design and will be a member of the design leadership team. You will help the design team to deliver efficiently, scale its impact, and strengthen the design culture of the digital health organisation from the product squad up to the leadership team.

As our first DesignOps hire, you will use your experience and judgement to identify, prioritise and act upon the most impactful improvement opportunities. Identify and take ownership of operational tasks that can be centralised, automated, or standardized and by representing design within operations, planning, and project and portfolio management activities, you will help us align and integrate with the business processes of the broader organisation. You will assess current ways of working and help transition towards more consistent best (or better) practices and by mitigating challenges and blockers faced by our design teams in their daily work, improve both the satisfaction and productivity of the team.

What you will do:

* Partner with product operations and delivery management to optimise the ways of working - including team structure, rituals, and enabling tools - within our product teams.
* Help our global Design Research team to establish and scale efficient processes for approvals, participant recruiting, consent, and data management in our research with patients, healthcare professionals and employees.
* Help optimise our use of our digital tools and workspaces - which today include Figma, Dovetail, Miro, Jira, AirFocus, Confluence, and Microsoft 365 - to support efficient teamwork within and beyond the design team.
* Establish and manage a lightweight and scalable design planning and resource allocation approach.
* Support the annual planning and budgeting cycles, and continuous budget management through the year.
* Support contracting and supplier governance with our external design and research vendors.
* Evolve the design team's rituals - such as our weekly and quarterly meetings, and annual offsites - to ensure they continue to meet our functional needs and support our evolving team culture.
* Support the roll-out of design guidelines and design systems across the team.
* Help establish and monitor design metrics and performance indicators.
* Help improve knowledge management for design, including team member on/off-boarding, and dissemination approaches for insights and methods.

Required Skills:

* Professional DesignOps experience
* Familiarity with modern research, design and prototyping tools and methods, in cross-functional agile product teams.
* Affinity with AstraZeneca's values, and a passion for crafting digital health solutions that combine the best of design and science.
* Strong leadership, teamwork, and storytelling skills, with the ability to improve outcomes using persuasion and influence.
* Willingness to travel for meetings and workshops

We also value:

* Experience in healthcare and/or digital health
* Non-linear career paths and diverse life experiences that enrich your perspective
* Familiarity with clinical trials and the drug development lifecycle
* A second language (and every additional language is a plus!)

Why Evinova?
Evinova draws on AstraZeneca's deep experience developing novel therapeutics, informed by insights from thousands of patients and clinical researchers. Together, we can accelerate the delivery of life-changing medicines, improve the design and delivery of clinical trials for better patient experiences and outcomes, and think more holistically about patient care before, during, and after treatment. We know that regulators, healthcare professionals, and care teams at clinical trial sites do not want a fragmented approach. They do not want a future where every pharmaceutical company provides its own, different digital solutions. They want solutions that work across the sector, simplify their workload, and benefit patients broadly. By bringing our solutions to the wider healthcare community, we can help build more unified approaches to how we all develop and deploy digital technologies, better serving our teams, physicians, and ultimately patients. Evinova represents a unique opportunity to deliver meaningful outcomes with digital and AI to serve the wider healthcare community and create new standards for the sector.

Join us on our journey of building a new kind of health-tech business to reset expectations of what a bio-pharmaceutical company can be. This means we're opening new ways to work, pioneering cutting-edge methods, and bringing unexpected teams together. Interested? Come and join our journey.

So, what's next?
Are you already imagining yourself joining our team? Good, because we can't wait to hear from you! We will go through the applications continuously so please apply as soon as possible. Welcome with your application!