Lead Designer, UX

Job Summary

Join our pioneering team at Edwards Lifesciences, dedicated to transforming patient care through innovative technology. As a Lead Designer in the Implantable Heart Failure Management (IHFM) AI, Product and Platforms organization, you’ll play a crucial role in shaping the future of healthcare.

About the Role

As a Lead Designer, you will set the design direction for a significant product area, ensuring design quality and consistency across features. You will lead design systems work, usability engineering activities, and contribute to the safety and usability of IHFM products.

Responsibilities

• Set the design direction for a significant product area and ensure design quality and consistency across its features.
• Lead design systems work for your area, owning components, patterns, accessibility standards, and contribution guidelines.
• Lead usability engineering activities, including planning and overseeing formative and summative usability testing and use-error analysis that support regulatory submissions under IEC 62366-1.
• Influence product strategy alongside cross-functional marketing, product management, technical product management, software engineering, and data engineering leadership, and mentor designers across levels.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in design, human-computer interaction, software human factors, or a related field plus eight years of design experience, including leading the design of a major product area or equivalent work experience based on Edwards criteria.
• Deep proficiency with Figma and the team's research and usability toolset (e.g., Dovetail and / or UserTesting), design systems, and prototyping.
• Experience planning and running formative and summative usability testing and applying software human factors methods.

Preferred

• The ability to communicate design rationale to senior stakeholders and to drive alignment across functions.
• A track record of shipping high-quality design and improving outcomes through research and iteration.
• Direct experience with usability engineering for medical devices (IEC 62366-1), including contributing to a usability engineering file or design history file.
• Familiarity with SaMD regulatory expectations and quality management systems.
• Experience owning a cross-product design system and accessibility framework.
• Working knowledge of the technologies (Android, iOS, React, Angular, .NET Core, REST, Databricks, Snowflake) and interoperability standards (HL7, FHIR, IHE) sufficient to design within real technical constraints.

Benefits

Competitive salaries, performance-based incentives, and a wide variety of benefits programs are offered to address the diverse individual needs of our employees and their families. For California (CA), the base pay range for this position is $121,000 to $171,000 (highly experienced).

Pay

The pay for the successful candidate will depend on various factors (e.g., qualifications, education, prior experience).

Schedule

Applications will be accepted while this position is posted on our Careers website.

Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer

We are committed to providing equal opportunity and affirmative action in employment and all aspects of our business operations. We are an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer including protected Veterans and individuals with disabilities.

Covid-19 Vaccination Requirement

As a condition of employment, you will be required to submit proof that you have been vaccinated for COVID-19, unless you request and are granted a medical or religious accommodation for exemption from the vaccination requirement. This vaccination requirement does not apply in locations where it is prohibited by law to impose vaccination.