UI/UX Designer

Job Title:

UI/UX Designer

Position Type:

Remote Contract

Overview

This is a contract role supporting a safety-critical, regulated product environment. This position exists to lead end-to-end UX design activities across complex digital products - balancing user-centered design principles with compliance requirements in highly regulated industries including medical devices, healthcare, and life sciences.

What You Bring to the Role

• 3-5+ years of experience designing complex digital products with a strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end user-centered design processes from research through implementation
• Experience in regulated industries - particularly medical devices, healthcare, life sciences, or other safety-critical environments where usability, risk mitigation, and compliance are priorities
• User research and human factors skills, including user interviews, usability testing, task analysis, and translating insights into intuitive interfaces for diverse user groups
• Familiarity with FDA-regulated products, IEC 62366 usability engineering, human factors engineering, clinical workflows, or medical device software (SaMD)
• Strong instructional design skills in addition to traditional UI/UX capabilities
• Proficiency in design tools such as Figma, Sketch, or Adobe XD
• Solid understanding of information architecture and interaction design
• Ability to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams including researchers, engineers, product managers, clinical experts, and regulatory stakeholders
• Passion for improving patient, clinician, or healthcare professional experiences through thoughtful, evidence-based design

What You'll Do

• Establish and implement the overall design strategy for digital products and websites
• Define and optimize design processes and tools across the organization
• Lead UX design activities from beginning to end across multiple digital products simultaneously
• Understand and advocate for client and end-user needs throughout the product lifecycle
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define business requirements, user scenarios, and use cases
• Create UX and design assets including process flows, site maps, conceptual diagrams, wireframes, and mockups to communicate design strategies and detailed interaction behaviors
• Present design solutions in ways that clearly communicate the value of design decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Partner closely with product stakeholders to align on team needs and priorities
• Provide design leadership and guidance to technical teams
• Deliver design assets on time to support the product roadmap and project timelines