Senior Product/UX Designer

Abbott • Lake Forest, CA

2d • Onsite

About The Position

Abbott has an on-site daily opportunity in Lake Forest, Illinois, for a Senior Product Designer in its Core Labs business unit. The role focuses on designing and developing point-of-care medical diagnostic products for infectious diseases. The designer applies user-experience (UX) and user-interface (UI) expertise to user-facing product interfaces through design, prototyping, and testing.

The position collaborates closely with human factors, instrument software, industrial design, R&D, strategic marketing, and application development teams to create diagnostic product systems that are easy to use, technically feasible, and provide a considered overall user experience. The designer also helps define, lead, and evolve the Diagnostics Design System to support functional and visual consistency across products.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a related area.
• Five years of work experience.
• Expertise in user-experience (UX) design and user-interface (UI) design.

Nice To Haves

• At least one year of experience collaborating with cross-functional project teams to identify requirements that affect UX/UI design.
• At least one year of experience providing strategic UX/UI design guidance, including design approaches, key considerations, and trade-offs.
• At least one year of experience advocating for UX/UI design goals across a division through communication with leadership and collaborators.
• At least one year of experience coordinating design activities with vendors and consultants to ensure prototypes or design services meet project requirements and milestones.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with R&D teams and strategic marketing to develop UX/UI concepts and prototypes for diagnostic product systems based on user research and product strategy.
• Create UX journey maps, task-flow diagrams, wireframes, and prototypes across phases of the new product development process.
• Lead UX design and prototyping for usability studies to identify user pain points and design-improvement opportunities.
• Plan and conduct usability testing and evolve designs based on findings.
• Work with the application development team to implement UX/UI concepts while balancing interaction design, visual design, and technical feasibility.
• Design differentiated user experiences across desktop, web, and mobile.
• Help define, lead, and evolve the Diagnostics Design System to ensure functional and visual consistency across products.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partner teams, including human factors, instrument software, and industrial design.

Benefits

• Career development opportunities with an international company.
• Potential eligibility for free medical coverage through the Health Investment Plan PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
• Retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Freedom 2 Save student debt program.
• FreeU education benefit, providing an affordable and convenient path to a bachelor's degree.

What This Job Offers

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