Senior Staff UX Designer

Design user-centered systems for clinical and operational applications in healthcare. Conduct user research and synthesize insights to create impactful healthcare solutions.

Responsibilities

• Use participatory design activities to understand vision, business model and assumptions and tacit knowledge about user needs and behaviors
• Ask questions appropriate to translating an abstract problem into a roadmap for identifying solutions
• Capture specific information from the audience and validates it back to them for acceptance
• Conduct user research to understand user needs, mental models and working contexts
• Synthesize output of stakeholder research & create visualizations that effectively summarize key insights related to user and customer needs and behaviors
• Create annotated prototypes or wireframes of user interface designs that visually and textually communicate the behavior of a software application
• Lead and influence business-wide discussions relative to current user experience projects and the future direction of design and user experience
• Develop knowledge of industrial business domains, products, key processes, suppliers, customers and market/competitors
• Guide effective documentation and communication of design - via wireframes, mockups, prototypes and user stories
• Lead research and evaluation of emerging design, technology, industry, and market trend

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Design
• 8 years design experience
• Technical expertise in Agile / Lean UX methodologies
• Skilled in standard design & wireframing tools (Adobe CC, OmniGraffle, Sketch), hand drawing and visual communication, time-based and interactive prototyping tools (Hype, Adobe Edge, Keynote)
• Ability to use generative techniques (sketching, brainstorming, etc.) to establish a variety of possible design decisions and decision scenarios
• Ability to map current industry trends to internal vision and bring related suggestions to the team
• Understanding of principles of design thinking
• Ability to actively cultivate an understanding of how individual people and things fit within larger structures
• Understanding the value of a rigorous, collaborative and transparent decision-making process
• Demonstrates sensitivity to key cultural issues
• Ability to express UX and design concepts to collaborators on cross functional teams
• Ability to extract and communicate how customer groups are thinking and feeling
• Ability to make decisions and take actions appropriately when all available information may not be possible to obtain

Key Skills

• Technical expertise in Agile / Lean UX methodologies
• Skilled in standard design & wireframing tools
• Hand drawing and visual communication
• Time-based and interactive prototyping tools
• Generative techniques
• Mapping current industry trends to internal vision
• Principles of design thinking
• Understanding of how individual people and things fit within larger structures
• Rigorous, collaborative and transparent decision-making process
• Sensitivity to key cultural issues
• Expressing UX and design concepts to collaborators
• Extracting and communicating how customer groups are thinking and feeling
• Making decisions and taking actions appropriately

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, paid time off
• 401(k) plan with employee and company contribution opportunities
• Life, disability, and accident insurance
• Tuition reimbursement