Lead User Experience Designer (m/f/d)

PURPOSE AND SCOPE:

Come and join an exciting organization where you can make an extensive positive impact by creating user experience strategy and execution for digital products and services as well as embedded software on medical devices that help patients live longer, healthier lives, and improve effectiveness and efficiencies of the healthcare practitioners.
We are seeking a highly experienced Lead UX Designer to drive the user experience strategy and execution for our complex digital ecosystem of products and solutions. This role requires a deep understanding of user-centered design, interaction design, and information architecture, with the ability to create seamless experiences across interconnected digital platforms. The ideal candidate will lead a team of designers, collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders, and ensure our products meet both user and business needs.

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. The Lead UX Designer should possess strong system design thinking and the ability to understand the big picture, including the relationships and dependencies between products and solutions.
2. Lead Agile design approach to product development including discovery and development.
3. Proactively contribute new UX ideas supported by user research and well-articulated rationale.
4. Design and execute generative and evaluative user research activities relevant to maturity of each project in accordance with the best User Experience practices.
5. Create wireframes, prototypes, service blueprints and user journeys.
6. Independently deliver design solutions for large scope and complexity projects.
7. Work through ambiguity and adapt your approach to meet the needs of multiple stakeholders.
8. Size and estimate UX tasks effort and assign them according to the individual designers’ capabilities, strengths, bandwidths, and timelines.
9. Conduct and participate in design reviews and feedback sessions.
10. Perform other related duties as assigned.

EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND DEMONSTRATION OF SKILLS:

1. Bachelors or Masters in Human Factors, Interaction, Industrial or Product Design, Cognitive, Experimental or Behavioral Psychology, Anthropology, or related field (or equivalent professional experience).
2. 10+ years’ experience in Product Design for large-scale enterprise solutions.
3. Experience designing for medical devices or other highly complex cross-platform enterprise solutions.
4. Experience with Mobile Applications / Native Apps.
5. Experience designing user interfaces for a variety of medium (desktop, touch screen, mobile, embedded software, etc.) and different platforms (Android, iOS, etc.).
6. Be able to recognize and distinguish value-add, strategic activities versus “busy work.”
7. Working knowledge of Figma.
8. This position may require up to 10% yearly travel, including domestic and international.

Please attach a Portfolio of your work to the application.