Senior Product Designer

At Omnicell, we are on a mission to revolutionize the health tech industry, and we are looking for an exceptional Senior Product Designer to join our design team. This is an opportunity to be part of a passionate group of highly motivated designers who are dedicated to transforming healthcare through innovative design. 

In this role, you will be at the forefront of shaping the product experience, ensuring that every interaction is engaging and impactful. You will guide design initiatives that not only enhance the overall user experience but also drive meaningful change in healthcare delivery. You will have the chance to mentor and inspire other designers, fostering a culture of creativity and collaboration. 

As you collaborate with cross-functional teams, your insights and expertise will contribute to groundbreaking solutions that address real-world challenges in healthcare. Join us in this exciting journey where your creativity and vision will make a difference in the lives of healthcare professionals and patients alike. 

Responsibilities

 

As a Senior Product Designer, you will be at the forefront of transforming the health tech industry, playing a pivotal role in translating requirements and customer challenges into innovative and valuable solutions. Your responsibilities will include:

• Conceptual Design: Transform high-level ideas into user-centric and impactful product designs that tackle the unique challenges of the healthcare domain.
• End-to-End Flows: Design seamless end-to-end user flows using prototyping tools, ensuring an intuitive experience for healthcare professionals.
• Design Systems: Evolve and contribute to design systems, showcasing your expertise in typography, UI design for desktop and mobile, color theory, layout, and iconography.
• Strategic Decision-Making: Actively communicate and influence strategic decisions regarding the future direction of Omnicell's healthcare products, ensuring alignment with user needs and business goals.
• Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including Product Managers, engineers, and researchers, overseeing the user experience from conception to launch, fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation.
• Feedback and Mentorship: Provide and solicit constructive feedback within the product team, contributing to the continuous improvement of design quality. Embrace mentorship opportunities to support the growth and development of fellow designers.
• Research and Validation: Create basic research plans, conduct user interviews, and synthesize findings to inform design decisions. Collaborate with our internal clinical team to validate real-world use cases, ensuring designs meet practical needs.
• Design Specifications: After reviewing and approving proposed workflows, you will be responsible for creating comprehensive design specifications that are meticulously annotated, providing clarity to engineers during the development phase.
• Post-Handoff Engagement: Remain actively engaged post-handoff to address implementation questions from the engineering team and resolve any edge cases that may arise during development, ensuring the successful translation of design concepts into functional, user-centric applications.
• Open Communication: Maintain open communication channels with project stakeholders, including product managers, engineers, and subject matter experts, to facilitate collaborative decision-making and ensure alignment with project objectives and requirements.

Deliverables

As a Product Designer, your contributions will be vital in shaping exceptional user experiences. Here’s a list of deliverables that highlight your impact:

• Documenting User Problems: Capture and articulate user challenges with clarity, ensuring that every voice is heard and understood.
• Journey Maps: Create insightful journey maps that visualize the user experience, identifying key touchpoints and opportunities for enhancement.
• Design Principles: Develop and document design principles that guide the creation of features and products, ensuring consistency and alignment with user needs.
• Low-Fidelity Wireframes: Craft low-fidelity wireframes or concepts that serve as the foundation for innovative design solutions, encouraging collaboration and feedback.
• High-Fidelity Mockups: Produce stunning high-fidelity mocks in Figma, utilizing both new and existing components to bring your vision to life.
• Clickable Prototypes: Design interactive clickable prototypes that allow stakeholders to experience the product flow and functionality firsthand.
• Documenting Design Decisions: Maintain thorough documentation of design decisions, providing transparency and rationale for your creative choices.
• Creative Problem-Solving: Showcase a breadth of creative problem-solving skills, framing solutions in a "good, better, best" format.
• Articulating Pros and Cons: Clearly articulate the pros and cons of each design concept, fostering informed decision-making among stakeholders.
• Structured Presentations: Present your work in an easy-to-follow and structured format, making it accessible and engaging for all audiences.
• Research Plans: Demonstrate a basic understanding of research methodologies by creating simplified research plans that guide user insights.
• Design Specifications: Deliver comprehensive design specs with detailed annotations, ensuring engineers have the clarity they need for implementation.
• Timely Deliverables: Exhibit the ability to deliver designs at various stages of completion, adhering to a self-imposed project timeline that keeps the team on track.
• Confident Presentations: Present your work with clarity and confidence during leadership review meetings and to customers, inspiring trust and excitement.
• Weekly Team Sharing: Share your work on a weekly basis with the design team, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Feedback Culture: Engage in giving and receiving feedback both verbally and in writing, nurturing a supportive environment for growth and innovation.
• Collaborative Reviews: Review designs with Product Managers, Subject Matter Experts, Engineers, and Design Leadership before handing off to engineers, ensuring a seamless transition to implementation.

Required Knowledge and Skills

• Experience: Over 7 years of hands-on experience in building and shipping applications or software. 
• Interaction Design: Over 7 years of interaction design experience, demonstrating the ability to define and advocate for user experiences based on deep understanding and consideration of user needs.
• Visual Design: Over 7 years of visual design experience, showcasing proficiency in typography, UI design, color theory, layout, iconography, and a keen aesthetic sense.
• Strategic Product Thinking: Over 7 years of strategic product thinking, with a track record of developing product goals and making decisions that positively impact both people and the company.
• Communication: Experience representing design work to senior executives, articulating goals and concepts clearly and succinctly.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience (UX/Visual Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Psychology, Industrial Design, or similar degrees preferred)
• 7+ years of Product Design Experience
  

Preferred Qualifications

• End-to-End Design Process: Experience showcasing your end-to-end design process across multiple projects, including interaction and visual design artifacts, high-fidelity prototypes, and a keen understanding of the impact and scale of your work.
• Collaboration Skills: Proven experience connecting your work with other industry-leading initiatives across the company, fostering collaboration and driving innovation.
• Leadership Impact: Examples of leadership in non-product dimensions that have strengthened the team and positively influenced the work environment.

Join us in this dynamic role where your creativity and leadership will drive the future of design at Omnicell!