User Experience Designer

Job Description

We're looking for a User Experience Designer to help us deliver impactful experiences that truly empower patients to manage their health conditions and improve their quality of life. Healthcare is changing and the products you develop will redefine how patients receive treatment.

You ' ll be working on some of our most challenging and high-impact UX problems, developing and executing research initiatives to support concept development. You will do this through understanding problems faced by our intended users as well as by being a vital part of the development of design solutions . Your will represent the voice of our customers; through contributing to regular cycles of user testing and working with our cross-disciplinary team of user researchers, user interface designers, product managers and software engineers to develop new product designs. You will be working in a start-up environment to deliver combination drug and software-based medical devices, which means you will be working within set process es to ensure final outputs are safe and effective.

We want our products to generate better health outcomes for patients, so we're keen to develop a deep understanding of the domain and identify existing issues and how they could be addressed. We believe that good design is at the heart of this challenge. We're interested in finding a UX specialist that can help keep patient outcomes at the heart of everything we do.

What you'll do:

Develop a deep understanding of healthcare delivery, our business, the product, the company objectives, our customers and our competitors.

Conceive and develop user journeys and UX designs that are both usable and engaging.

Conduct user research, apply different research methodologies as needed, and synthesise data into meaningful actionable insights and influence the development of our products.

Gather information to articulate a holistic view of our users and their behaviour and support the translation of this information into models to help teams understand our users and their needs.Advocate for user needs and help foster a design culture based on evidence and insights from user research.

Contribute to user interface design and report on progress to other members of the team.

Collaborate with cross-functional product teams to deliver working software.

Work within a medical regulated environment, understand how this impacts the R&D process and apply the necessary tasks to meet regulatory requirements.

Actively participate in the research and design culture of the organisation by sharing thought leadership and building effective processes and organisational research capabilities.

What you'll bring:

Proven experience working in a UX capacity, influencing the development of software products in healthcare or a similarly complex industry.

A strong portfolio demonstrating UX research and design examples that have delivered insight and helped to shape the design and success of released products in the marketplace.

Experience delivering research studies involving challenging problems and examples of different methodologies used (e.g. ethnography, user interviews, focus groups, co-design workshops, usability testing, competitor analysis, literature review).

Excellent analytical skills. The ability to gather and process qualitative data, synthesise it into simple actionable insights and help the team execute on findings.

Experience advocating for the user through effectively communicating research findings and leveraging them in ways that contribute to product strategy and design.

Proficiency in development tools such as Miro, Sketch, Adobe CC, Figma as well as tools such as Confluence and Jira.

Proven experience of mobile app design, with a good understanding of design patterns on iOS and Android (material design).

Proficiency creating wireframes, mock-ups and prototypes that feed into iterative design processes.

Lean attitude that engages with users and internal stakeholders.

Great presentation skills and comfort working directly with internal stakeholders and external partners.

Desirable but not mandatory:

Medical experience or experience operating in a highly regulated industry (e.g. finance)

Prior experience of designing software as a medical device.

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