Do you have a proven track record of leading UX for complex digital, hardware, or healthcare solutions, combining deep design expertise with strong project management skills to plan, prioritize, and drive delivery?
If yes, this role is for you ;) ...
General Information:
- Start date: asap
- latest Start Date: 03.08.26
- Planned duration: 12 months from start date
- Extension (in case of limitation): possible
- Workload: 100%
- Home Office: 2-3 remote
- Travel: less than 10% (only once in a while to Germany for project team meetings)
- Team: 6-7
- Working hours: Standard
Tasks & Responsibilities:
- Lead UX workstreams across discovery, concept development, validation, implementation support, and launch preparation.
- Translate business objectives, customer insights, workflow needs, and regulatory context into actionable design decisions.
- Plan, estimate, structure, and manage UX activities, deliverables, dependencies, timelines, and resource needs.
- Coordinate designers, researchers, and cross-functional contributors across multiple workstreams.
- Ensure design deliverables are high quality, consistent, evidence-based, and ready for development and validation.
- Partner with Product Management, Engineering, Regulatory, Quality, Clinical, Service, and business stakeholders.
- Integrate UX work into agile delivery, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, PI Planning, system demos, and release planning.
- Identify risks, interdependencies, scope changes, and bottlenecks early, and propose mitigation actions or prepare escalation.
- Facilitate workshops, design reviews, prioritization sessions, and stakeholder alignment meetings.
- Coach designers and cross-functional teams on UX methods, customer-centricity, and design best practices.
- Represent UX in governance meetings, project reviews, customer engagements, and strategic discussions.
- Contribute to improving design leadership operations, estimation practices, team rituals, and delivery efficiency.
Must Haves:
- 6+ years of experience in UX design, product design, service design, human factors, design research, or a related field.
- Degree in UX Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Industrial Design, Service Design, Human Factors or a related field.
- Proven experience leading UX for complex digital or hardware products, services, platforms, or healthcare solutions.
- Strong project management skills, including planning, estimation, prioritization, dependency management, risk management, and progress tracking.
- Ability to define UX work packages, delivery milestones, staffing needs, and effort estimates.
- Experience working with Product Management, Engineering, Regulatory, Quality, Research, and business stakeholders.
- Strong facilitation, storytelling, communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to manage ambiguity, structure complex problems, and translate insights into practical design direction.
- Experience working in agile product development environments.
- Experience with SAFe, Agile Release Trains, PI Planning, Lean UX, or scaled agile delivery is a strong plus.
- Experience in healthcare, diagnostics, medical devices, life sciences, laboratory workflows, or regulated industries is highly desirable.
- Experience managing UX work across distributed, global, or matrixed teams.
- Strong command of English; additional languages such as German are a plus.
We thank you for your application!
