Senior Product Designer

Abbott • Lake Forest, IL

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life, with a portfolio spanning diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals, and branded generic medicines. The company has 115,000 colleagues serving people in more than 160 countries. This Senior Product Designer role is located in Lake Forest, IL, within the Abbott Rapid Diagnostics Division. The position involves applying technical expertise in user-experience (UX) design and user interface (UI) design to design and develop point-of-care, medical diagnostic products for Infectious Diseases. The designer will focus on the user-facing design of product interfaces through the design, prototyping, and testing process. They will collaborate closely with key partner teams, such as human factors, instrument software, and industrial design, to create easy-to-use and technically feasible diagnostic product systems that deliver a well-considered overall user experience. This role is on-site daily and is not hybrid.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in related area plus 5 years of work experience

Nice To Haves

• Previous experience of at least 1or more years of the following: Collaborating with cross-functional project teams to identify key requirements that have an impact to UX/UI Design.
• Provide strategic guidance related to UX/UI Design including design approach, key considerations, and trade-offs.
• Advocating the goals of UX/UI design across the division through effective communication with leadership and collaborators.
• Coordinating design activities with vendors and consultants to ensure prototypes or design services meet project requirements and milestones.

Responsibilities

• Work with R&D teams and the strategic marketing to design and develop user experience (UX) design and user interface (UI) design concepts and prototypes for diagnostic product systems based on user-research and product strategy.
• Apply your user experience (UX) design and user interface (UI) design skillset to create UX journey maps, task-flow diagrams, UX/UI wireframes & prototypes across phases of the new product development process.
• lead UX design & UX prototyping for usability studies to uncover user pain points & opportunities for design improvement.
• Plan and conduct usability (UX) testing and evolve the design based on the findings.
• Work with the software instrument team to implement UX/UI design concepts balancing interaction design, visual design, and technical feasibility.
• Be a critical thinker and creative problem solver who can design and mold unique, differentiated user experiences across desktop, web and mobile.
• Help define, lead, and evolve the Diagnostics Design System to ensure all products are both functionally and visually consistent.

Benefits

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
• An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution.
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.
• Health and wellness benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees