Principal UX Designer

The position

We are looking for a talented and inspiring Principal UX Designer in Product & Service Design to join our Global Diagnostics User Experience Team (DIA UX). As Principal UX Designer, you will be contributing to the transformation of user and customer experience in healthcare using your design expertise as well as leadership ability.

What you will do 

• Lead the team to translate user research and business requirements into valuable product design decisions and detailed day-to-day work for the team
• Advocate for the right user-centric design methodologies during different project phases, encourage design system and usability engineering adoption.
• Define workshop objectives and communicate how to shape workshop content, assets as well as exercises to other team members and facilitate parts of activities and discussions.
• Gather system-level information from multiple sources and communicate clearly to internal clients, potentially users and customers.
• Provide recommendations and frame design decisions in light of the impact to the business, as well as customers and users.
• Support Design Leads and Capability Leads in shaping approaches and pitching work to clients.
• Create content to support thought leadership initiatives.
• Help define overarching story and frameworks to be used during client presentations. Communicate storyline to clients at Roche and potential users and customers, as appropriate.
• Support the Design Lead in managing day-to-day activities, and understand the Design Lead’s and clients’ expectations and course-correct deviations in the project plan.
• Support constructive critique and personal feedback opportunities within the team, such as retrospectives, and suggest actions to take.

Who you are

You are someone who likes a combination of hands-on project work and leadership, looking to work for a company where your career can grow as your interests do, across functions and geographies. Where you are valued for all of your passions and interests.

• Strong abilities in Product & Service Design and in Usability Engineering.
• Proven track record of results providing design excellence, delivering solutions to market and leading design teams in the healthcare industry or another highly regulated industry (with ownership of key deliverables).
• Well-versed in user and customer experience design, service design, interaction design and prototyping.
• Industrial Design expertise is considered a big plus.
• Experience with guiding more junior designers on projects that require in-depth knowledge of specific domains and skill development
• Strong UX knowledge, especially in digital products/solutions.
• Great presentation skills and ability to communicate ideas, solutions and deliverables effectively and persuasively.
• Fluent in English.

We are looking forward to receive your CV and portfolio.

At Roche people drive our business and are a top priority. Because we realize each person has different personal requirements, we strive to provide a complete benefits / relocation package that is competitive and, more importantly, meets the diverse needs of our people and their families.