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Senior Staff UX Designer

GE HealthCare WA07-01-Bellevue-1100-112th Avenue NE Full-time
$156,400
per year

Job Description

Job Description Summary

As part of the Science and Technology Organization at GE Healthcare, you’ll help shape the future of digital healthcare by designing intuitive, user-centered systems that power the next generation of clinical and operational applications.
At GE Healthcare, we are harnessing the power of technology to make healthcare more precise, personalized, and accessible for everyone. From driving clinical research and patient-centric innovation to delivering cutting-edge digital and machine learning capabilities, we are committed to leading digital transformation and improving outcomes for patients and providers worldwide.
In this role, you will design experiences that align with business goals and user needs, helping to deliver impactful healthcare solutions that scale across diverse environments.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

  • Use participatory design activities (e.g. paper prototype co-creation, card sorting) to understand vision, business model and assumptions and tacit knowledge about user needs and behaviors.
  • Ask questions appropriate to translating an abstract problem into a roadmap for identifying solutions.
  • Capture specific information from the audience and validates it back to them for acceptance.
  • Conduct user research to understand user needs, mental models and working contexts
  • Synthesize output of stakeholder research & create visualizations that effectively summarize key insights related to user and customer needs and behaviors
  • Create annotated prototypes or wireframes of user interface designs that visually and textually communicate the behavior of a software application.
  • Lead and influence business-wide discussions relative to current user experience projects and the future direction of design and user experience
  • Develop knowledge of industrial business domains, products, key processes, suppliers, customers and market/competitors.
  • Guide effective documentation and communication of design - via wireframes, mockups, prototypes and user stories
  • Lead research and evaluation of emerging design, technology, industry, and market trend

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Design
  • 8 years design experience

Desired Characteristics

Technical Expertise:

  • Demonstrated strong understanding of Agile / Lean UX methodologies
  • Skilled in standard design & wireframing tools (Adobe CC, OmniGraffle, Sketch), hand drawing and visual communication, time-based and interactive prototyping tools (Hype, Adobe Edge, Keynote).
  • Ability to use generative techniques (sketching, brainstorming, etc.) to establish a variety of possible design decisions and decision scenarios.

Business Acumen:

  • Ability to map current industry trends to internal vision and bring related suggestions to the team.
  • Understands principles of design thinking, what it is and why it is important.
  • Ability to actively cultivate an understanding of how individual people and things fit within larger structures (like systems or organizations), as well as the relationships between parts of a system and the system as a whole.

Leadership:

  • Understands the value of a rigorous, collaborative and transparent decision-making process.
  • Demonstrates sensitivity to key cultural issues.
  • Ability to express UX and design concepts to collaborators on cross functional teams, by explaining the rationale and benefit of design ideas.
  • Demonstrates the ability to extract and communicate how customer groups are thinking and feeling.
  • Ability to make decisions and take actions appropriately when all available information may not be possible to obtain.

For U.S. based positions only, the pay range for this position is $156,400.00-$234,600.00 Annual. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the pay range and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. The specific compensation offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including skills, qualifications, experience and location. In addition, this position may also be eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). GE HealthCare offers a competitive benefits package, including not but limited to medical, dental, vision, paid time off, a 401(k) plan with employee and company contribution opportunities, life, disability, and accident insurance, and tuition reimbursement.

Additional Information

GE HealthCare offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE HealthCare is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

GE HealthCare will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).

While GE HealthCare does not currently require U.S. employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19, some GE HealthCare customers have vaccination mandates that may apply to certain GE HealthCare employees.

Relocation Assistance Provided: No

Company Information

Location: Chicago, IL

Type: Hybrid