Senior UX Designer

Job title: Senior UX Designer

In this role, you have the opportunity to

Help us to advance healthcare by creating innovative solutions for healthcare providers as well as the patients. In healthcare, there are many opportunities and challenges to improve the lives of patients by designing solutions for patients and the healthcare organizations that provide care to them.

We are looking for a passionate Senior UI/UX Designer who can help explore and propose solutions to complex system design problems and design the best way to visualize data to make it meaningful and useful.

As a Senior UI/UX Designer for our Ultrasound business, you will be responsible for the user experience for embedded, mobile, and desktop software products. You will cocreate those digital experiences with a small design team in close collaboration with relevant business counterparts (i.e. clinical/ marketing). You'll be setting the design direction by translating user needs and business requirements into workflows, scenarios, information architecture, navigation models, and wireframes. You will lead the creation of user interface mockups, prototypes, and documentation to support development teams. You engage team members in crafting a product vision within a larger domain and advocate for creating new value through passionate and compelling arguments and examples.

You are able to take a lead role for the design aspects of bringing software experiences to market as a part of a teams of designers, researchers, engineers, product managers and strategists. You setup usability tests when relevant and guide external agencies in their work. At each stage, you will seek to discover users need, advocate for them and ensure that the final product surprises and delights. You use your knowledge and user data to create the best possible user experience and interaction design.

You have a collaborative way of working as well as a proactive and innovative mindset that allows you to create innovative and appropriate user experiences that solve our business and customer needs. You are able to collaborate as part of a product development team to enable product teams to bring user experience to life through software development.

Responsibilities

analysis/research

• Understanding people, business and societies, framing the problem with a strong focus on user needs and requirements.
• Conduct and lead analysis of user needs. Initiate and execute own analysis and research to gain deeper insights as input for solution creation

creation/validation

• Apply creative expertise on higher complexity project or program level with a high level of content specialism
• Create frameworks and interaction concepts across domains.
• Define role of product within a larger ecosystem. Establish design principles and guide teams with clarity and accuracy.
• Create user focused strategies, innovations, solutions and experiences and the user testing and validation of these, considering usability, sustainability and appropriate visual and verbal articulation in line with DLS and Brand guidelines.
• Create information architectures and workflows Create functional designs for application screens (wireframes and prototypes).
• Apply and define interface and interaction principles in conjunction with guidance from existing design language documentation. Define and apply usability principles specific to the contexts of use.
• Craft experiences, prototypes and demos that together create a great experience in alignment with the Philips brand and design language. Use appropriate skills (sketching, prototyping and specification) to define and communicate interaction concepts to marketing, software development, and customers.
• Technical: Identify opportunities and constraints inherent in technology and platform decisions and ability to illuminate the impact of technology choices on user experience and product quality.

process/delivery

• Execute on scope, drive own efficiency, deliver appropriate design quality within budget and project parameters
• Independently scope and lead larger projects with higher complexity, able to influence direct environment to create enabling conditions for success
• Leads multi-disciplinary or cross-functional project teams

stakeholder focus

• Focusing on the customer, collaborating, partnering and co-creating with internal and external stakeholders, with clear and impactful communication and articulation of design decision making

team

• Contributing to effective teamwork, receiving guidance and being a pro-active team player, offering a point of view
• Communication: bring team members from different disciplines together, which requires great communication, negotiation, and influencing skills; actively drive effective collaboration through co- create approaches between Design and business stakeholders

To succeed in this role, you should have the following skills and experience

• You have a Bachelor or Master's degree in graphic, interaction design and/or new media design
• Ideally have 10+ years of relevant experience in interaction design (embedded, mobile, desktop software devices)
• You have developed complex user interfaces, platforms, and UX roadmaps
• You have experience in leading and guiding junior designers or small design teams
• You have managed as a creative lead complex stakeholder environment
• You are passionate about innovation, user interface design, design strategy, and overall user experience and the affinity to become a thought leader in one of those domains
• You have an affection with healthcare and personal health
• You have a strong aesthetic and visual sensitivity
• You have excellent business communication and consulting skills
• You are recognized for your expertise and talent in interaction design and visual design as well as for your specific competency, knowledge and capability.
• You have an excellent understanding of development processes
• You may have won award(s) or hold IP.

In return, we offer you

At Philips, we are driven by our mission to improve the lives of 3 billion people per year by 2030, and every day we move closer to achieving our goal by creating cutting-edge solutions that lead to confident diagnosis, improved care, and increased quality of life for patients. Thanks to our employees who share our passion for improving lives, we are at the forefront of the Healthcare industry leading in image guided interventions, ultrasound, patient monitoring, cardiology informatics, sleep therapy, respiratory care and services.

How we work at Philips
Our newly-adopted hybrid work concept fuses flexibility with collaboration to deliver great outcomes for our people and our customers. We are embracing an approach wherein we spend more time together than apart – which for full-time employees translates to an average of at least 3 days working from the office and up to 2 days from home – for our hybrid roles. Hybrid work flexibility means people can meet the changing demands of work and home in the most balanced, productive, and healthy way.

Our hybrid working model is defined in 3 ways:
We believe in the importance of impactful collaboration: There's a certain energy when everyone's in the same room that can heighten idea generation and creative friction needed for problem-solving.
We embrace flexibility: Choosing where, when and how to work can vary according to task and team schedules. Flexibility isn't office or online, it means choosing the space that works best for you, your teams and our customers on a case-by-case basis.
We want to be at our best: The way we work and our workspaces are designed to support our well-being, offer career advancement opportunities, and enable us to be at our best.

Why should you join Philips?
Working at Philips is more than a job. It's a calling to create a healthier society through meaningful work, focused on innovative, customer-first health technology solutions. Help us improve the health and well-being of billions of people, every year. Ultimately creating a career that no one could have planned for. Even you.