Staff UX Designer - Remote

CMS

The Cardiac Management Solutions division of ZOLL Medical Corporation develops products to protect and manage cardiac patients, including the LifeVest® wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD), the ZOLL cardiac monitor, and associated technologies.

Heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women in the U.S. At ZOLL, your work will help to ensure cardiac patients get the life-saving therapy they need. To date, the LifeVest WCD has been worn by hundreds of thousands of patients and saved thousands of lives.

ZOLL has been Pittsburgh's Manufacturer of the Year, one of Western PA's Healthiest Employers, and even one of Pittsburgh's Coolest Offices. But it's our unique opportunity to impact people's lives that makes ZOLL the ideal place to build your career.

Job purpose

As a Staff UX Designer, your role on the team will include working closely with designers, engineers, business stakeholders, end users and product managers to discover, understand and communicate user research and design practices to create intuitive, easy-to-use products. We are looking for someone with the ability and desire to create highly functional and aesthetically appealing products.

The ideal candidate for this position can translate business needs and user research data into actionable design deliverables that are incorporated into our products. You have experience in executing and directing the production of user interface wireframes and designs, interaction models, and prototypes. You are comfortable presenting your concepts to stakeholders and are able to translate for a range of audiences including product managers and engineers. You understand User Centered Design and set high standards for yourself and others on the team.

Duties and responsibilities

• Work closely with designers, engineers, quality assurance and product managers to create simple and beautiful user experiences, including a consistent and cohesive brand voice
• Help continuously evolve content design processes to facilitate the needs of the business
• Translate concepts into wireframes, storyboards, sitemaps and screen flows
• Create product prototypes, style guides, copy patterns and information architecture
• Develop personas and usage scenarios
• Promote User-Centered Design process
• Identify design problems and make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, and new functions and features
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent industry experience in design-related discipline such as Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Information Science, Computer Science or equivalent. Typically, 5+ years of relevant experience. Proven track record performing the above Duties and Responsibilities.
• Experience and knowledge in standard UX software such as Sketch, Marvel, Zeplin, Balsamiq, OmniGraffle, Framer etc. Knowledge of HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript are a plus
• A solid grasp of user-centered design (UCD), planning and conducting user research, user testing, A/B testing, rapid prototyping, heuristic analysis, usability and accessibility concerns.
• Ability to clearly and effectively communicate and sell design processes, ideas, and solutions to teams and clients.
• Knowledge of accessibility and localization techniques and practices
• Experience in Agile development process
• Highly motivated to learn and work in a team environment

Working conditions

Consistent with work environment in a typical office setting. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical requirements

The person in this position needs to occasionally move about inside the office, operate a computer and communicate with other team members.

Supervisory responsibility

None

AAP/EEO Statement

ZOLL is an Equal Opportunity Employer minorities/females/veterans/individuals with disabilities/sexual orientation/gender identity

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Other Duties:

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities will be reviewed periodically as duties and responsibilities change with business necessity. Essential and marginal job functions are subject to modification.

ZOLL Medical Corporation appreciates and values diversity. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V.

ADA: The employer will make reasonable accommodations in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.