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"The details are not the details. They make the design."
— Charles Eames
Senior Product Designer
Abbott Laboratories • Milpitas, United States of America 🇺🇸
Lead the design strategy for multiple product lines and drive cross-functional collaboration to ensure cohesive product development. Shape user experiences and innovate through an iterative design process while mentoring the design team.
Responsibilities
- Lead Design Strategy and Vision for Key Products: Take ownership of design strategy, ensure alignment with business goals and user needs
- Drive Cross-Functional Collaboration: Foster strong partnerships with researchers, content designers, product managers, engineers, and marketing teams
- Shape User Experience: Define and articulate vision for core audiences, craft user experiences that evolve with needs and market landscape
- Innovate and Iterate: Lead end-to-end design process, continuously refine designs based on user feedback and research
- Utilize Storytelling for Strategic Impact: Employ storytelling techniques to bridge user needs with business outcomes
- Enhance and Scale Design Systems: Contribute to evolution and refinement of design system, ensure consistency and coherence
- Mentor and Elevate the Design Team: Lead design critiques and collaborative sessions, foster culture of excellence, innovation, and continuous learning
- Influence Product Success: Align design with business strategy, contribute to product success in market
- Establish Design as a Strategic Asset: Position design as key differentiator for brand
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Design / Human Factors or related field, with minimum of 10 years relevant work experience
- Sophisticated design sensibility with a refined eye for UI patterns, visual hierarchy, and strong visual execution
- Experience in creating, evolving, and maintaining design systems
- Proficiency in design and prototyping tools such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite
- Ability to translate business goals and audience needs into impactful designs
- Strong prototyping and animation skills
- Passion for crafting engaging, intuitive, and visually appealing experiences
- Expertise in usability and accessibility
- Strong communication and presentation skills
Key Skills
- Sophisticated design sensibility
- Experience with design and prototyping tools
- Ability to translate business goals and audience needs into impactful designs
- Strong prototyping and animation skills
- Passion for crafting engaging, intuitive, and visually appealing experiences
- Expertise in usability and accessibility
- Strong communication and presentation skills
Benefits
- Career development with an international company
- Free medical coverage in Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan
- Excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
- Tuition reimbursement, Freedom 2 Save student debt program, FreeU education benefit
- Company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide
- Named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune
- Best big companies to work for and best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists
About Abbott Laboratories
Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritional and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries. Connect with us at www.abbott.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbott and www.facebook.com/AbbottCareers, on Instagram @AbbottGlobal, and on X @AbbottNews. We invite you to explore opportunities at Abbott, to see if your talents and career aspirations may fit with our openings. An equal opportunity employer, Abbott welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce. Terms of Use: https://www.abbott.com/social-media-terms-of-use.htm
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