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At Medtronic, you can embark on a lifelong career dedicated to exploration and innovation, all while advocating for healthcare access and equity for all. Your role will involve leading with purpose, striving to break down barriers to innovation in a more connected and compassionate world. In a typical day, you will be a part of the IT User Experience Research & Design Team utilizing human-centered research and design techniques to collaborate with stakeholders in developing consistent, usable, and accessible technology solutions for Medtronic employees, customers, patients, and partners. As a member of the Enterprise Architecture team, you will contribute to establishing standards for UX and UI, conducting workshops to shape solutions, comprehending the opportunity space, and offering internal consultative expertise to ensure both custom and SaaS solutions are as user-friendly as possible. Your responsibilities will include creating and refining designs focusing on user interfaces and user experience, considering technology, platforms, and architecture while applying human-centered design approaches, engaging in generative design research, collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams, documenting design language, and user interface design. As a Technical Specialist in our technical functions, you will advance existing technology or introduce new technology and therapies. You will formulate, deliver, and manage projects, collaborate with stakeholders, and may mentor colleagues or direct the work of other professionals. Your time will primarily be spent on delivering R&D, systems, or initiatives related to new technologies or therapies, from design to implementation, while adhering to policies and utilizing specialized knowledge and skills. Your autonomy as a seasoned individual contributor will allow you to work independently under limited supervision, determine and develop approaches to solutions, coach and review the work of lower-level specialists, and manage projects or processes. You may be responsible for entire projects or processes within your job area and contribute to work group objectives through relationship-building and consensus-building. Innovation and Complexity will be key aspects of your role as you tackle difficult problems and issues, requiring an understanding of multiple job areas or specialties. You will make improvements to processes, systems, or products to enhance job area performance, provide in-depth analysis, and offer recommendations for process improvements. Effective communication and influence will be crucial as you engage with senior internal and external customers and vendors, exchanging information to achieve objectives and influence decision-making. You will provide guidance, coaching, and training to other employees within your job area, manage projects, delegate work, and review others" work product. As a Senior UX/UI Designer (Experience Architect) at Medtronic, you will collaborate with end users, stakeholders, and development teams to design user experiences and interfaces for applications. You will work on complex, transactional, responsive web-based, and mobile systems, contributing to a shared services organization within Information Technology that supports all business units and geographies. Your responsibilities will include driving UX strategy, facilitating stakeholder engagement, conducting human-centered research, creating personas and journey maps, translating business and user needs into solution concepts, creating prototypes and interface mockups, establishing design patterns, documenting product specifications, and leading efforts to develop measurable UX KPIs for key projects. The Senior UX/UI Designer will be expected to work effectively with distributed teams, enable and facilitate remote collaboration sessions, document user interface designs, work under the guidance of a UX lead or independently, operate in iterative and waterfall methodologies, provide UX consultation to project sponsors and implementation teams, understand usability heuristics, communicate effectively with all levels in the organization, work in a highly-regulated industry, and remain current with internal quality training and regulatory requirements. You will need a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, MCA, or MSc, with a minimum of 8 years of IT experience and at least 5 years of relevant experience. Desired qualifications include a full range of human-centered research and design techniques, expert prototyping skills using Axure and Figma, usability testing experience, proficiency in virtual whiteboarding and collaboration tools, creating design style guides or systems, working collaboratively with development teams, and designing highly transactional websites or applications. In addition, you should have knowledge of UI design documentation, experience with global teams and systems, proficiency with business tools, including Word, Excel, and Outlook, and familiarity with Zoom or Teams for remote collaboration. Previous Medtronic experience, IT experience, mobile design experience, continuous learning mindset, usability testing experience, and facilitation skills will be advantageous for this role. You must possess excellent communication skills and the ability to work in Agile or other iterative methodologies. Medtronic offers a competitive salary and flexible benefits package as part of its commitment to employees. The company values contributions made by its employees and provides a wide range of benefits, resources, and compensation plans to support employees at every stage of their career and life. At Medtronic, our mission is to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life by addressing the most challenging health problems facing humanity through innovative solutions. With a global team of over 90,000 passionate individuals, we are engineers at heart working together to create real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab to the factory floor and conference room, we experiment, create, build, improve, and solve with diverse perspectives and a drive to engineer the extraordinary. Learn more about Medtronic's business, mission, and commitment to diversity to join us in our mission to make a difference in global healthcare technology.,
