User Experience Lead

Role Summary/Purpose:
The User Experience Lead works with business stakeholders and System Architects to drive holistic user experience implementation across programs and drives collaboration with marketing, architecture, product management, and the central user experience platform teams to drive awareness of user needs and consistency of experience across the portfolio.

Essential Responsibilities:
The User Experience Lead also works with a cross-functional team of design researchers, interaction designers, human factors & usability specialists, design technologists, and visual designers.
Maintains a high-level, holistic vision of user experience across the portfolio and how it ties to the overall business user experience
Effectively partner with product management, engineering, and other internal stakeholders to ensure programs receive appropriate UX support
Maintains connections to business-level user experience guidance, including personas, workflows, and visual design guidelines
Lead the creation of interaction design and information architecture deliverables such as site maps, workflows, user interaction models, low
- through high
- fidelity prototypes, and graphic assets.
Identify and share trends and methodologies relevant to user experience.
Coach and mentor UX practitioners.
Represents interests of our products to the business-level user experience organization
Lead the consistent implementation of GEHC UI design standards and pattern library
Influences common modeling, design and coding practices
Facilitates the re-use of ideas, components, and proven patterns

Qualifications/Requirements:
Masters?s or Bachelor?s degree in Human Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, Industrial Design or closely-related field
At least very strong years of combined professional experience applying user experience methods toward product design
Demonstrated expertise in applying user and design research methodologies such as contextual inquiry, focus groups, and interviews.
Demonstrated expertise in applying interaction design and human factors methodologies such as card sorting, task analysis, heuristic analysis, cognitive walk-through, expert review, site maps, workflows, eye-tracking studies, and low
- through high-fidelity prototyping.
Excellent conceptual, problem-solving and oral/written communication skills
Able to travel up to 35% (Domestic and International).
Familiarity with integrating user-centered design techniques within an Agile development environment
A strong practical understanding of design and product development.
Strategic thinker with an innovative spirit, strong and decisive communicator
Team player and collaborator with a positive attitude

Desired Characteristics:
Familiarity with design control and regulatory practices and standards for medical devices
Experience in designing for the consumer electronics, mobile applications, and healthcare/medical devices domains.
Profound understanding of design principles and product development process
Track record of creating intellectual property