Senior UI/UX Designer

The Senior UI/UX Designer will lead user experience design activities, driving UX strategy and facilitating stakeholder engagement through human-centered design processes. They will create personas, journey maps, and prototypes while collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams to ensure user-friendly technology solutions.

Responsibilities

• Creates and refines designs for products and services focused on user interfaces and user experience
• Considers technology, platforms, and architecture while applying human-centered techniques in design approaches
• Engages in generative design research and the translation of user/customer needs into design concepts
• Collaborates with multi-disciplinary teams and facilitates working sessions, brainstorming, design reviews and collaborative design meetings
• Documents design language and user interface design
• Drive UX strategy with product and project teams
• Facilitate stakeholder engagement as part of a human-centered design process
• Facilitate workshops to answer critical business questions through design thinking, rapid prototyping, and testing ideas with customers
• Responsible for human-centered research and gathering insights on user behavior
• Create personas and end-user journey maps
• Translate business and user needs and technology constraints into solution concepts that are meaningful, easy to use, and engaging
• Create storyboards, prototypes, and interface mockups to demonstrate product design ideas
• Bring complex data products to life through maps, dashboards and infographics
• Establish design patterns and apply UX best practices and approaches to products, services & user interfaces
• Document product specifications, including accessibility requirements
• Help drive user research and assessments for the projects that fall into UX criteria
• Lead the efforts to develop measurable UX KPIs for key projects
• Work effectively with distributed teams, on- and off-shore team members, and third-party partners
• Enable and facilitate remote collaboration sessions and workshops using video conferencing and virtual whiteboarding tools
• Document the final user interface design in a format that is useful to various members of the development team, and consistent with Medtronic’s internal project documentation standards
• Work effectively under the guidance of a UX lead, or work independently, depending on the project
• Operate comfortably in iterative and waterfall methodologies
• Provide UX consultation and guidance to project sponsors and implementation teams
• Understand usability heuristics and crafting of effective usability requirements, and evaluate and provide heuristic assessment of user interfaces
• Communicate effectively (verbally and in writing) with all levels and roles in the organization
• Understand and demonstrate the ability to work in a highly-regulated industry
• Effectively facilitate working sessions, design reviews and collaborative design meetings

Requirements

• Requires a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, MCA, or MSc
• Overall 8+ years of IT experience and a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience
• A full range of human-centered research and design techniques
• Expert prototyping skills using Axure and Figma
• Creating and conducting usability tests and other user experience verification methods
• Miro or Murally for virtual whiteboarding and collaboration
• Using and/or creating design style guides or design systems
• Working collaboratively with development teams
• Design of highly transactional websites or web-based applications
• UI Design Documentation and experience writing interface design specifications
• Global teams and systems, including non-English user interfaces
• Visio or other flow mapping tools
• Facility with Zoom or Teams for remote collaboration
• Business tools, including Word, Excel, Outlook
• Previous Medtronic experience (preferred)
• Mobile design experience including knowledge of iOS screen controls, application flow and design best practices (preferred)
• A desire for continuous learning
• Willingness to experiment and iterate
• Experience conducting usability tests
• Ability to facilitate a collaborative design process
• Ability to create and manipulate graphic design elements for mobile and web-based applications
• Experience participating on Agile (or other iterative methodologies) development teams
• Broad business knowledge and experience
• Broad knowledge of mobile and web application development technologies
• Excellent communication skills (oral, business writing, and listening)

Benefits

• Competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
• Health Insurance
• Annual Leave of 23 days at full pay
• Pension Scheme
• Annual Bonus Programme & Shop LK Vouchers / CleverCards (subject to eligibility)
• Life Assurance
• Education Assistance