Sr. UX Designer at Arthrex, Inc. in Santa Barbara, California

Job Description:

*THIS POSITION IS BASED SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA, BUT OPEN TO REMOTE*

Main Objective:  

The Senior User Experience/User Interface Designer will be responsible for creating compelling user experiences through interactions and visual designs. This role provides a unique opportunity to create new UX design patterns, clean interface components and deliver designs to development throughout the software and product development lifecycle.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design user interfaces for medical device consoles, touch screen panels, desktop, web and mobile applications.


• Works with Product Owner to satisfy user needs for products, costs, and timeline.


• Works with Tech Leads to ensure that handoff of designs is “developer friendly” which improves implementation time and meets developer requirements.


• Ensure front-end performance of UX Designs are optimized.


• Understand customer needs and key business drivers and develop solutions that effectively address both.


• Help define project requirements and develop user-centered designs to build best-in-class products and user experiences.


• Design and create user experience architecture diagrams (site maps, task flows) and wireframes.


• The ability to consolidate and translate research findings, team input, client needs/strategy and brand characteristics into authentic and usable interface solutions.


• Helps maintain and evolve the Global Arthrex Design System to scale reusable UX Design components and live code repositories.


• Works with UX Principal and product team to verify business, technical and user requirements are met.


• Participate in research and design sessions with customers, internal users and key stakeholders.
   
   

Incidental Duties:

The above statements describe the general nature and level of work being performed in this job.  They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, and indeed additional responsibilities may be assigned, as required, by management.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology, Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Human Factors, Human-Computer Interaction, Human-Centered Design, or similar required.


• 5 + years’ experience in interaction design required.


• 3 + years’ experience working on interfaces in the medical industry preferred.


• Experience within software development required.


• Experience with design sketches, wireframes, and high-fidelity mockups, and prototypes required.


• Experience in understanding and designing the relationship between the GUI, physical controls, and industrial design to enhance the overall user experience with an application required.       


• Experience working in an Agile environment.

Knowledge and Skill Requirements/Specialized Courses and/or Training:

• Work comfortably in a fast-paced, changing environment.


• Strong visual design skills and advocate for a human-centered design process.


• Demonstrated knowledge of design systems.


• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills.


• Work enthusiastically with a highly collaborative product team in an iterative agile design process, inspired by group critique.


• Work effectively within and across product teams, in an iterative design process, inspired by product team critique.


• Demonstrated knowledge of medical device human factors a plus.


• Experience with React, Angular, JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3 a plus.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.