Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is a leading healthcare institution recognized for its excellence in patient care and innovation. They are seeking a Senior UX Designer responsible for creating engaging user experiences for digital products, conducting user research, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance product features. This role emphasizes continuous improvement of user experiences based on research findings and user needs.
Responsibilities
- Facilitates and/or drives the stages of the innovation design process. Helps to establish and evolve the product from concept to proof of concept for user testing
- Leads the UX research, design, and testing for new experiences and improvements of existing experiences
- Advocates for strategic design solutions, highlighting inputs influencing the decisions including business and user goals, demographic and usage data, and research findings
- Communicates the user experience at various stages of the design process with mental model maps, wireframes, flow diagrams, storyboards, personas, mockups, and/or high-fidelity prototypes
- Delivers work that's not only user-friendly, aesthetically engaging, but which also produces results
- Assesses and optimizes the performance of new and existing features by actively participating/leading in user research and assessing performance metrics
- Mentors more junior designers/researchers and leads the design/research workstream within a project/program
- Confidently presents design concepts, articulates ideas, and facilitates brainstorming sessions with leaders, developers, and stakeholders
- Conducts independent research and competitive analysis on multiple aspects of products and experiences from a UX, product, and strategy perspectives
- Collects and analyzes user behavior through lab studies, field visits, ethnography, surveys, benchmark studies, server logs and online experiments (A/B testing)
- Works with Designers, Product Managers, Engineers, Business Operations Specialists, Digital Strategists, and other UXRs to prioritize research opportunities in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment, while also incorporating complex technical and business requirements
- Designs and executes user research using qualitative and quantitative methods, including ethnographic studies, primary interviews, generative design research, usability studies, A/B testing
- Masters planning, conducting, and synthesizing ethnographic studies and primary interviews with user/customers and major stakeholders
Skills
- Five (5) plus years of proven experience in UI/UX design, concept development, building and shipping products (web, mobile apps, responsive designs), building and maintaining design systems, gained from working in an innovation agency, startup, tech company or large organization
- High School Diploma/GED required
- Bachelor's degree in design, psychology, or research field is preferred
Benefits
- Learning programs
- Tuition reimbursement
- Performance-improvement projects
- Access to our groundbreaking biomedical research facilities
- Sophisticated medical education programs
- Outstanding benefit package
- Competitive salaries
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