Brand & Service Design Senior Manager

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare with leading businesses and products in diagnostics medical devices nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Working at Abbott

At Abbott you can do work that matters grow and learn care for yourself and your family be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.

• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.

• An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution

• Tuition reimbursement the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.

• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.

• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as the best place to work for diversity working mothers female executives and scientists.

The Opportunity

Join us at Abbott Diabetes Care (ADC) in our mission to help individuals with diabetes lead active fulfilling lives. We’re focused on helping people manage their health more effectively and comfortably with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions.

As the Brand & Service Design Senior Manager you will shape how our brand is experienced across every touchpoint from digital platforms to service interactions. You’ll evolve our visual and verbal identity build scalable design systems and lead a team of designers to deliver cohesive human-centered brand and service experiences.

This is a strategic and hands-on leadership role ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of brand product and service design in a mission-driven environment.

This role is remote with regular travel to Alameda CA for team collaboration workshops and leadership alignment.

What you’ll do

• Lead high-impact projects from concept to execution ensuring design excellence across brand and service experiences.

• Manage and grow a multidisciplinary team of brand service and content designers fostering a culture of creativity collaboration and continuous learning.

• Evolve our brand system to be more expressive flexible and scalable while keeping it cohesive across all channel

• Collaborate with designers cross-functional partners and vendors to provide design direction and ensure brand alignment and cohesion.

• Build smart systems including guidelines libraries and workflows that enable scalable high-quality brand execution

• Partner with marketing product and customer service to create experiences that aligns with our strategy and connect with people.

• Continuously raise the bar for execution sweat the details and innovate brand expression as marketing and customer service evolve.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Graphic Design Visual Communication or a related field.

• Minimum of 10 years of relevant work experience with at least 5 years in a brand design leadership role.

Preferred Qualifications

• Portfolio demonstrating strong visual thinking bold creative ideas brought to life across formats and channels and business impact

• Experience leading designers and developing creative talent

• Fluency in tools like Figma Adobe Creative Suite

• Refined aesthetic sensibility paired with a bold distinctive creative perspective

• Strong communication and storytelling skills to influence across levels and disciplines

• Experience with software design for brand service and product experience

• Ability to synthesize insights from patients providers and internal teams to inform design decisions

• Business acumen and strategic thinking to align design with organizational goals and market dynamics

• Demonstrated experience shaping ways of working with in-house cross functional teams fostering strong collaboration and alignment

• Experience in the healthcare and health technology space is a strong plus

Apply Now

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: www.abbottbenefits.com

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to employee diversity.

Connect with us at www.abbott.com on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbott and on Twitter @AbbottNews.

The base pay for this position is

$127300.00 – $254700.00

In specific locations the pay range may vary from the range posted.

JOB FAMILY:

Product Development

DIVISION:

ADC Diabetes Care

LOCATION:

United States of America : Remote

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

WORK SHIFT:

Standard

TRAVEL:

Yes 25 % of the Time

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:

No

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:

Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day)Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.EEO is the Law link - English: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_English.pdfEEO is the Law link - Espanol: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_Spanish.pdf