Manager, UI/UX/ID

Baxter International Inc. • Round Lake, IL

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About The Position

This is where your work makes a difference. At Baxter, we believe every person—regardless of who they are or where they are from—deserves a chance to live a healthy life. It was our founding belief in 1931 and continues to be our guiding principle. We are redefining healthcare delivery to make a greater impact today, tomorrow, and beyond. Our Baxter colleagues are united by our Mission to Save and Sustain Lives. Together, our community is driven by a culture of courage, trust, and collaboration. Every individual is empowered to take ownership and make a meaningful impact. We strive for efficient and effective operations, and we hold each other accountable for delivering exceptional results. Here, you will find more than just a job—you will find purpose and pride. Your Role at Baxter As part of Baxter’s Human-Centered Product Design Organization, the Manager, UI/UX leads the design of safe, intuitive, and compliant user experiences for medical devices and digital interfaces. This role ensures designs meet clinical needs, regulatory expectations, human factors engineering standards, and usability requirements. The UI/UX Manager collaborates closely with R&D, Human Factors, Quality, Regulatory, Clinical, and Engineering teams to deliver products that improve patient outcomes and clinician efficiency.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in UX, HCI, Human Factors, Cognitive Psychology, Design, or related field.
• 7+ years of UI/UX experience, including 2–4 years in a leadership role.
• Experience designing for healthcare, medical devices, or regulated industries.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating complex, high‑stakes UX work.
• Familiarity with design controls, documentation, traceability, and regulatory expectations (IEC 62366, FDA HF/Usability).
• Expertise with design tools (Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, Miro).
• Strong understanding of usability testing and human factors principles.

Nice To Haves

• experience with connected medical ecosystems, clinical workflows, Agile/Lean UX, and supporting 510(k)/MDR submissions.

Responsibilities

• Set UI/UX strategy for digital and physical medical solutions and lead a multidisciplinary design team.
• Establish regulatory‑aligned design standards and champion user‑centered design across product teams.
• Oversee creation of wireframes, prototypes, and production‑ready assets, ensuring designs meet safety, usability, and clinical workflow needs.
• Collaborate with engineering and human factors to ensure feasibility, risk mitigation, and alignment with usability testing requirements.
• Lead user research with clinicians, patients, and stakeholders; translate insights into design improvements.
• Partner cross‑functionally to define user needs, communicate design decisions, and support usability risk assessments.
• Ensure high‑quality, consistent UI/UX deliverables and manage timelines through development, V&V, and post‑market improvement cycles.

Benefits

• Baxter offers comprehensive compensation and benefits packages for eligible roles.
• Our health and well-being benefits include medical and dental coverage that start on day one, as well as insurance coverage for basic life, accident, short-term and long-term disability, and business travel accident insurance.
• Financial and retirement benefits include the Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), with the ability to purchase company stock at a discount, and the 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan (RSP), with options for employee contributions and company matching.
• We also offer Flexible Spending Accounts, educational assistance programs, and time-off benefits such as paid holidays, paid time off ranging from 20 to 35 days based on length of service, family and medical leaves of absence, and paid parental leave.
• Additional benefits include commuting benefits, the Employee Discount Program, the Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and childcare benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager