Senior UI/UX Designer

About the role

The UI/UX Designer at LivaNova is responsible for defining and delivering intuitive, visually compelling user experiences for an implantable medical device platform and its connected-care ecosystem. This role combines strong visual design skills with user-centered product design.

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.

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