smartdept. is searching for a Senior UX/UI Designerfor a med-tech client located in Sunnyvale, CA. The ideal candidate will come with 5 years of experience. This is a full-time, hybrid, 7-month contract opportunity with the possibility of an extension. Compensation for this position is expected to be $100/hr - $139/hr depending on experience level and fit. 

As a Senior Visual Designer on the Digital UX team, you'll take a lead design role on surgeon-facing software products. You'll work closely with our partners in the Product, Engineering, and Human Factors groups to take ideas from concept to implementation. You’ll apply the visual design system vocabulary to some of the most vital surgeon-facing applications to make our digital applications visually consistent, compelling, and delightful to use.

What You’ll Do: 

• Lead visual design efforts within suite of digital products. Consistently guide design efforts to help us productively create digital design work that delights and inspires our users.
• Employ communication and storytelling skills for effective design process collaboration with peers and stakeholders by communicating and defending design decisions verbally and visually.
• Demonstrate a growing capacity for understanding and supporting the business goals behind our work.
• Deliver compelling, creative UX design deliverables via proactively collaborating with process partners to understand cross-functional requirements.
• Contribute to the growth and maturity of the UX Design System
• Develop a body of knowledge on clinical knowledge and practice to build familiarity with the clinical context and use of our products and services.
• Engage a broad range of stakeholders to solicit their feedback and build consensus and support around your product design vision. Comfortably interact with peers in product, human factors, clinical, and engineering teams to encourage their engagement in the design process.
• Define, document, and execute design system patterns employing purposeful typography, color, iconography, and motion to deliver world class user interfaces
• Creatively employ the design process via the creation of early-stage conceptual design artifacts. Distill broadly defined business requirements into clearly understandable design concepts to drive engagement and consensus across the organization.
• Provide high-level and detail-focused specifications for design deliverables as appropriate
• Follow product and deliverable timelines working with cross-functional teams to prioritize project work accordingly
• Partner with the broader Visual Design team to drive consistency

What You’ll Need: 

• 5 years of relevant experience
• Experience designing end-to-end user interfaces for a wide range of products and services.