Human Factors and Usability Lead

Cellular Origins

Cell therapies have been shown to cure devastating diseases like cancer by reprogramming a patient’s own immune system, offering hope where there was none before. Giving more patients access to these life-saving therapies requires a revolution in manufacturing and process automation. 

Cellular Origins, a TTP company, is leading this revolution. Our proprietary technology tackles the challenges of large-scale production with an elegant robotic automation system that cuts costs, reduces labor, eliminates human error, and boosts efficiency. 

Human Factors and Usability Lead

This is a unique opportunity to own the user journey of Constellation system, shaping the physical and digital interfaces of our revolutionary cell therapy platform.

In this role, you’ll coordinate third-party usability studies, ensuring that both digital UI and hardware designs are not only innovative but also safe and user-friendly. Your exceptional team-working and communication skills will be essential as you integrate user considerations into design trade-offs.

You'll define and steer our usability engineering process, create user interface evaluation plans, and prepare comprehensive user interface specifications and reports for submission.

Lastly, you'll delve into diverse research and analytical techniques to understand various stakeholders and environments, mapping out user stories and driving improvements in usability and safety.

Requirements

• A 1st or Upper 2nd class first degree or higher from a leading university in Human Factors, Ergonomics, Psychology, Product Design, UX or a related discipline.
• Empathy and a passion for involving the User in the product development process.
• A track record of deploying various research methods with clients, users, and stakeholders to deliver insights into research, technology or advanced product development projects, including formative and summative studies).
• A strong ability to communicate the value of your work confidently with people at all levels, to explain complex concepts in a simple way.
• Understanding of HF regulatory requirements and a structured approach to taking usability evaluation through to technical file submission.
• Experience of defining and aligning usability engineering activities with product development activities, including risk management.
• Versed in the following standards and guidance: 13485, 62366, HE75
• Life science and Healthcare experience is preferred.
• Preferably experience with both physical products as well as digital interfaces.

The above list outlines our ideal candidate, but we know some of you may not apply unless you qualify for all requirements. We believe in the power and importance of diversity, both for our community and the success of our business, so please apply if you meet most of our listed capabilities.    

Benefits

Cellular Origins is part of TTP Group, an employee-owned business. It is based on the TTP Campus, within purpose-built sustainable offices, labs and green surroundings, 10 miles south of Cambridge. TTP Group takes a long-term approach to investment and has been at the forefront of bioprocess automation for over 20 years. Our working culture encourages entrepreneurship, shared ideas and collaboration, while providing you the freedom to do your best work.

Our employee benefits include:

• Annual profit-related bonus
• 25 days holiday
• Employer pension contribution of 12% of pensionable pay
• Free lunch and all-day refreshments
• Private medical insurance for employees and dependants
• Enhanced family friendly leave
• Life insurance worth 6x salary
• Electric car leasing scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• An activities and community fund that supports healthy activities that bring colleagues together; whether it’s lunchtime squash or football, Zumba or our own rock band. Colleagues initiate new clubs and outings whenever they feel there’s something missing!
• Local sports facilities and theatre discounts and memberships.