UX Designer

About This Role

This UX Designer role is within the Arthrex Digital Innovation group, focusing on the user interface design and development for medical devices. The position involves working on various platforms, from medical device consoles to web and mobile applications, ensuring user needs are met and designs are optimized for performance and developer implementation.

Responsibilities

• Design user interfaces for medical device consoles, touch screen panels, desktop, web, and mobile applications
• Work with the Product Owner to satisfy user needs for products, costs, and timeline
• Work 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
• Consolidate and translate research findings, team input, client needs/strategy, and brand characteristics into authentic and usable interface solutions
• Help maintain and evolve the Global Arthrex Design System to scale reusable UX Design components and live code repositories
• Work 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

Requirements

• Excellent visual design skills
• Experienced in using UX Principles and Laws to guide design decisions
• Execute and educate on design thinking activities and human-centered design approaches
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
• Design and conduct usability testing and have a deep understanding of what constitutes clean and innovative design
• Proficient in Sketch and Figma
• Advanced knowledge of Customer Experience concepts (VoC, Story Mapping, Journey Map, Metrics, etc)
• Experience working on multiple products in Agile environments, advocate for best practices for UX in Agile, and document processes
• Experience creating complex interactive graphical prototypes (wireframes, detailed designs) and system workflows/diagrams
• Experience facilitating co-collaboration activities with Product Managers and Engineers
• Demonstrated contribution to documentation in design systems
• Working knowledge of anatomy from an orthopedic standpoint required
• Technical knowledge in development methodologies, design, and project implementation
• Experience designing and validating Software User Interfaces
• Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology, Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Human Factors, Human-Computer Interaction, Human-Centered Design, or similar required
• Experience in software development and working in an Agile environment
• User-centered research and reporting
• Understanding and designing the relationship between the GUI, physical controls, and industrial design to enhance the overall user experience with an application
• Creating interactive animated prototypes
• Working on interfaces in the medical industry

Nice to have:

• Knowledge of Principle for Mac, Axure, Figjam, Lucidchart, Google Analytics, Adobe Creative Suite preferred
• Knowledge of FDA and ISO Human Factors guidelines for the development of medical devices strongly preferred
• Experience with React, Angular, JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3 a plus

Benefits

• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
• Company-Provided Life Insurance
• Voluntary Life Insurance
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Supplemental Insurance Plans (Accident, Cancer, Hospital, Critical Illness)
• Matching 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Annual Bonus
• Wellness Incentive Program
• Free Onsite Medical Clinics
• Free Onsite Lunch
• Tuition Reimbursement Program
• Trip of a Lifetime
• Paid Parental Leave
• Paid Time Off
• Volunteer PTO
• Employee Assistance Provider (EAP)

About the Company

Arthrex is a global medical device company and leader in research, new product development, and medical education in orthopedics. It develops more than 1,000 innovative products and procedures each year that support all aspects of orthopedics, focused on Helping Surgeons Treat Their Patients Better™.