Senior Product/UX Designer

Abbott • Lake Forest, IL

4d • $78,000 - $156,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Abbott has an opportunity for a Senior Product Designer within its Core Labs business unit in Lake Forest, Illinois. The role is onsite daily and is not hybrid. The designer will use UX and UI expertise to design and develop point-of-care medical diagnostic products for infectious diseases, focusing on user-facing product interfaces throughout 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 deliver a considered overall user experience.

The role involves developing UX/UI concepts and prototypes based on user research and product strategy, creating journey maps, task-flow diagrams, wireframes, and prototypes, and leading usability research and testing. The designer will use findings to improve designs, balance interaction and visual design with technical feasibility, and help define and evolve the Diagnostics Design System so products remain functionally and visually consistent. The position requires a related bachelor's degree and five years of work experience. The posted base pay range is $78,000 to $156,000; pay may vary by location.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a related area.
• Five years of work experience.
• Expertise in user-experience design and user-interface design.
• Ability to design and prototype user-facing interfaces and conduct usability testing.
• Ability to think critically and solve creative problems across desktop, web, and mobile experiences.

Nice To Haves

• At least one year of experience collaborating with cross-functional project teams to identify requirements that affect UX/UI design and providing strategic guidance on design approach, 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

• Work with R&D teams and strategic marketing to design and 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 new product development.
• Lead UX design and prototyping for usability studies to identify user pain points and opportunities for improvement.
• 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 products are functionally and visually consistent.
• Collaborate with human factors, instrument software, and industrial design partners to develop easy-to-use, technically feasible diagnostic product systems.

Benefits

• Career development opportunities with an international company.
• Potential eligibility for free medical coverage in 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 for pursuing a bachelor's degree.

What This Job Offers

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