UX Design Contractor

CMS

At ZOLL, we're passionate about improving patient outcomes and helping save lives. We provide innovative technologies that make a meaningful difference in people's lives. Our medical devices, software and related services are used worldwide to diagnose and treat patients suffering from serious cardiopulmonary and respiratory conditions.

ZOLL Cardiac Management Solutions offers a unique portfolio of novel technologies designed to deliver better insights and better outcomes. On any given day, clinicians utilize these ZOLL products for tens of thousands of cardiac patients around the world:

• LifeVest, the world's first wearable defibrillator, has been trusted to protect more than 1M patients at risk of sudden cardiac death.
• HFMS (Heart Failure Management system) is a non-invasive, patch-based device that monitors pulmonary fluid levels and has been shown to reduce heart failure readmissions rates by 38 percent.
• TherOx Super Saturated Oxygen (SSO2) Therapy is the first FDA-approved therapy since the stent 20+ years ago to reduce infarct size in patients with the most severe heart attacks.

Heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women in the U.S. At ZOLL, your work will help to ensure cardiac patients get the life-saving therapy they need.

ZOLL has been Pittsburgh's Manufacturer of the Year, one of Western PA's Healthiest Employers, and even one of Pittsburgh's Coolest Offices. But it's our unique opportunity to impact people's lives that makes ZOLL the ideal place to build your career.

Job Type

Hybrid

Job Summary

As a User Experience (UX) Design Contractor, you will help shape LifeVest and related products. You'll collaborate with a dynamic team of designers, engineers, business stakeholders, and product managers, gathering insights to understand user needs. Together, you'll transform user research and design principles into intuitive, engaging digital and physical experiences that make a difference. The ideal candidate possesses the following skills.

• You have a strong background in creating user interface wireframes, interaction models, and both digital and physical prototypes.
• You possess experience in producing sketches to conceptualize ideas of physical device interactions.
• You are adept at presenting your concepts to stakeholders, including product managers, engineers, and leadership.
• You have a solid understanding of User-Centered Design and maintain high standards for yourself and your team.

Essential Functions

• Design wireframes and mockups with GUI design tools.
• Create and communicate concepts through sketching, visual storytelling, and digital and physical models.
• Iterate on designs based on user feedback, metrics, usability findings, and design critiques.
• Create stimuli for testing concepts and help drive design research cycles.
• Create style guides, copy patterns, and information architecture.
• Present design work to cross-functional teams for review, feedback, and approval.
• Assist in developing user scenarios, use cases, and design requirements.
• Interview internal and external stakeholders and users.
• Create design documentation and execute user research activities.
• Promote the User-Centered Design process and other evolving industry standards.

Required/Preferred Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in design-related discipline such as Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Human Factors, Information Science, Computer Science or equivalent.
• A minimum of five years of professional experience in UX design required.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Highly proficient in Figma.
• Highly skilled with design collaboration tools such as FigJam and Miro.
• Highly skilled in Photoshop and Illustrator.
• Experience with creating iconography, animations and micro-animations.
• Skilled in sketching ideas and storyboarding.
• Experience creating information architecture models, developing style guides, and contributing to design systems.
• Experience in creating both digital and physical prototypes.
• Strong understanding of user-centered design principles, including planning and conducting user research, user testing, and rapid prototyping.
• Knowledgeable about best practices for web, mobile and embedded GUI design.
• Ability to read and interpret documents of advanced technical complexity. Ability to write reports and research findings of a technical nature. Ability to speak and present effectively one-on-one as well as in small and large groups of professionals including customers, clients and collaborators, both inside and outside the organization.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• Standing - Occasionally
• Walking - Occasionally
• Sitting - Constantly
• Talking - Occasionally
• Hearing - Occasionally
• Repetitive Motions - Frequently

ZOLL is a fast-growing company that operates in more than 140 countries around the world. Our employees are inspired by a commitment to make a difference in patients' lives, and our culture values innovation, self-motivation and an entrepreneurial spirit. Join us in our efforts to improve outcomes for underserved patients suffering from critical cardiopulmonary conditions and help save more lives.

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The hourly pay rate for this position is:

$100,000.00 to $130,000.00

Factors which may affect this rate include shift, geography, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate. Details of ZOLL's comprehensive benefits plans can be found at www.zollbenefits.com.

Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until this position is filled. For fully remote positions, compensation will comply with all applicable federal, state, and local wage laws, including minimum wage requirements, based on the employee’s primary work location.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

ADA: The employer will make reasonable accommodations in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.