Senior UI/UX Designer

About the role

The UI/UX Designer plays a pivotal role in shaping intuitive and visually compelling user experiences for LivaNova's implantable medical device platform and its connected-care ecosystem. This role integrates strong visual design skills with user-centered product design, translating clinical workflows and user needs into elegant interfaces, rapid prototypes, and validated experiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end UX for assigned products from discovery through delivery, ensuring user-centered, validated solutions.
• Conduct user research and testing with clinicians and patients; synthesize findings into clear requirements and improvements.
• Create user personas, journey maps, and prioritize UX requirements.
• Establish navigation, content hierarchy, and data flows for device and companion applications.
• Develop interaction models, wireframes, and high-fidelity UIs to communicate intent and enable implementation.
• Maintain a scalable design system and production-ready specs to ensure portfolio-wide consistency and efficient handoffs.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, engineering, human factors, regulatory, legal, security, and marketing to align on safety, usability, and go-to-market needs.
• Elevate UI/UX best practices and methodologies by defining, documenting, and sharing standardized design processes, templates, and governance to ensure consistent, repeatable delivery.

Specific Responsibilities

• Run stakeholder interviews, contextual inquiry, and workflow mapping with clinicians and patients.
• Synthesize research into requirements: create user personas, journey maps, and prioritized UX requirements.
• Define information architecture: establish navigation, content hierarchy, and data flows for device and companion applications.
• Create interaction models and wireframes: produce low- and mid-fidelity artifacts to validate flows and behaviors.
• Produce high-fidelity UI designs: deliver pixel-perfect screens, visual assets, and motion cues that reflect brand and clinical needs.
• Build interactive prototypes: create clickable prototypes for concept validation, stakeholder reviews, and engineering alignment.
• Plan and run UX and usability testing: design test plans, recruit participants, run sessions, synthesize results, and produce actionable reports.
• Deliver production-ready specs: provide annotated designs, component specs, and developer handoff artifacts (tokens, assets, logic rules/states, and guidelines).
• Maintain and evolve the design system: create reusable components, documentation, and versioning to ensure portfolio consistency.
• Define and scale UX operations: establish team best practices, templates, and workflows; support growth of UX maturity across processes, tools, and standards.

Qualifications

• Strong verbal and written communication and proven cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Highly motivated self-starter who proactively drives outcomes, negotiates trade-offs, and works independently when needed.
• Excellent teamwork, partnering, and negotiation abilities to align stakeholders and move projects forward.
• Deep knowledge of current UX methodologies, design processes, and usability principles.
• Experience applying mobile and web interface standards such as Android Material Design and Apple Human Interface Guidelines.
• Fluent with Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud, Dovetail, or equivalent design, prototyping, and research tools.
• Usability testing and research practice: planning, running sessions, synthesizing findings, and reporting actionable recommendations.
• Design systems experience: creating, maintaining, and scaling component libraries and documented patterns for multi-product consistency.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Human Factors, Industrial Design, Psychology, Cognitive Science, or a related field.
• Preferred: Master’s degree in HCI, Human Factors, Interaction Design, or a closely related discipline.
• Relevant certifications and coursework (e.g., UX research, human factors, accessibility, design systems) considered a plus.

Location & Travel Requirements

This position will be based at our Houston area site. Moderate travel may be required (up to 25%).

Pay Transparency

A reasonable estimate of the annual base salary for this position is $160,000 - $180,000 plus discretionary annual bonus. Pay ranges may vary by location.

Employee Benefits

• Health benefits – Medical, Dental, Vision
• Personal and Vacation Time
• Retirement & Savings Plan (401K)
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Training & Education Assistance
• Bonus Referral Program
• Service Awards
• Employee Recognition Program
• Flexible Work Schedules

Valuing Different Backgrounds

LivaNova values equality and diversity. We are committed to ensuring that our recruitment process is fair, transparent, and free from unlawful discrimination. Our selection process is driven by the key demands/requirements for the role rather than bias or discrimination on the basis of a candidate’s sex, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, non-job-related disability/handicap or medical condition, family status, sexual orientation, religion, color, ethnicity, race, or any other legally protected classification.

Notice To Third Party Agencies

Please note that we do not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed Recruitment Services Agreement, we will not consider, or agree to, payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee. In the event that a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without a previously signed agreement, we explicitly reserve the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency.