About the Role
As a Senior UX Designer, you'll play a central role in shaping the user experience and design of digital products built for the healthcare marketing industry. You'll work hands-on to create intuitive, accessible, and empathetic experiences for websites and interactive pieces that serve patients, healthcare providers (HCPs), and caregivers.
You'll own end-to-end UX delivery for your assigned projects, with strategic oversight from the UX Director. On larger-scale engagements, you'll often partner with a Lead UX Designer, contributing both hands-on craft and design thinking. Your work directly impacts real people navigating complex health journeys, so you'll balance business goals, user needs, and regulatory realities in equal measure.
What you'll do
- Information architecture — sitemaps, taxonomies, navigation models, and content structures.
- User flows & journey maps — mapping task paths, decision points, and multi-state experiences (e.g., HCP vs. patient, pre- vs. post-authentication).
- Wireframes — low- to high-fidelity wireframes that clearly communicate structure, hierarchy, and interaction.
- Interactive prototypes — clickable Figma prototypes for stakeholder review and usability testing.
- Interaction & responsive design — detailed interaction specs, states, and behavior across breakpoints and devices.
- Design specifications & developer handoff — annotated UX documentation that gives development teams what they need to build accurately.
- Accessibility annotations — WCAG 2.1/2.2 AA guidance including focus order, keyboard navigation, ARIA intent, and inclusive design considerations built in from the start.
- Regulated content structure — designing experiences that accommodate compliance requirements such as fair balance, ISI placement, and referencing, in partnership with medical/regulatory reviewers.
- Design QA — reviewing built experiences against design intent and flagging discrepancies.
- UX Design system contributions — building, extending, and maintaining reusable components and patterns to keep work consistent and efficient.
- Plan and conduct user research and usability testing sessions.
- Synthesize qualitative and quantitative findings into clear, actionable insights.
- Incorporate findings into UX iterations to ensure experiences are intuitive, accessible, and engaging while meeting user needs and business goals.
- Use research and analytics to validate design decisions and measure success.
- Partner closely with strategy, creative, copy, account, and development teams to translate complex requirements into intuitive solutions.
- Serve as a key advisor to creative teams on accessibility and compliance standards.
- Act as a critical bridge between user needs, business goals, and technical feasibility.
- Navigate regulated review workflows (e.g., MLR/PRB), designing in a way that anticipates and supports the review process.
- Confidently present design concepts to clients and internal stakeholders.
- Clearly articulate design choices and their strategic impact on user outcomes and business goals.
- Facilitate workshops and design discussions and tell a compelling story through your work.
- Comfortably integrate AI tools into the design process — accelerating research synthesis, ideation, content drafting, prototyping, and documentation — while maintaining strong craft, critical judgment, and quality control.
- Stay curious about emerging AI capabilities and help the team identify where they add genuine value to UX outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
End-to-End UX Design & Deliverables
Own the full UX lifecycle for your projects and produce the artifacts that move work from concept to launch, including:
User Research & Usability Testing
Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration
Client & Stakeholder Communication
AI-Enabled Workflow
About you
- 8+ years of UX/product design experience, including leading design on projects end to end.
- A strong portfolio demonstrating full-lifecycle UX work — research, IA, wireframes, prototypes, and shipped experiences — across responsive web and interactive platforms.
- Proficiency in Figma, including prototyping and component/design-system workflows.
- Deep working knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1/2.2 AA) and inclusive design practices.
- Solid grasp of visual design fundamentals (typography, color, layout, hierarchy).
- Demonstrated experience planning, running, and synthesizing user research and usability testing.
- Proficiency with UX/product analytics tools (e.g., GA4, Hotjar) to inform and measure design.
- Excellent presentation and communication skills, with comfort presenting to and defending decisions in front of clients.
- Comfort integrating AI tools into a modern design workflow.
- Experience in life sciences, pharmaceutical, or medical communications is a significant plus.
- Familiarity with regulated review processes (MLR/PRB) and compliant design considerations (fair balance, ISI placement, referencing).
- Experience designing HCP- and patient-facing digital experiences.
- Experience contributing to or maintaining a design system.
Qualifications
Required
Preferred
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