About this role
The UX/UI Designer is responsible for creating intuitive, user-centered designs for healthcare SaaS applications. This role collaborates with cross-functional teams—including product managers, engineers, and clinicians—to deliver innovative solutions that enhance user experience and align with strategic goals.
Key Responsibilities:
User-Centered Design & Research
- Conduct user interviews, usability testing, and persona development
- Apply empathy-driven design thinking to healthcare workflows
- Translate research insights into actionable design improvements
Prototyping & Interaction Design
- Create wireframes, mockups, and high-fidelity prototypes using tools like Figma and Adobe XD
- Design user flows and interaction models that support clinical and administrative tasks
- Iterate designs based on feedback from users and stakeholders
Design Systems & Consistency
- Build and maintain design systems and component libraries
- Ensure consistency across products through reusable components and style guides
- Collaborate with engineering to align design libraries with code libraries
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner with product managers, developers, and stakeholders to align design with business strategy
- Facilitate workshops and iterative design sessions to co-create solutions
- Communicate design rationale and user needs effectively across teams
Accessibility & Compliance Awareness
- Design for accessibility following WCAG standards
- Ensure UI components meet usability and legal standards for diverse user populations
- Incorporate healthcare compliance requirements such as HIPAA into design decisions
Required Qualifications:
Education & Experience Guidelines
- Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field
- 1-3 years of relevant work experience
- Proficiency in design tools: Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD
- Strong understanding of UX principles, accessibility, and responsive design
- Experience in agile development environments
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Ability to translate complex requirements into user-friendly designs
- Occasional travel may be required.
Other Knowledge, Skills, Abilities or Certifications:
- Familiarity with healthcare compliance standards (e.g., HIPAA)
- Experience with design systems and component libraries
- Knowledge of HTML/CSS and front-end development practices
- Certification in UX design or related field
- Experience with data visualization and dashboard design
Fortive 9 Behaviors by Level:
Executing and Contributing
Customer Obsessed : Understands the customer’s needs through observation, questioning and going to Gemba.
Strategic : Uses data to make informed decisions while anticipating future trends and aligning actions with organizational goals.
Innovation for Impact : Proactively explores new perspectives and experiments to solve day-to-day problems.
Inspiring : Understands how their work contributes to the organization’s purpose.
Builds Extraordinary Teams : Actively fosters collaboration by contributing positively, supporting shared goals, helping others succeed, and celebrating team achievements together.
Courageous : Shows strength through action —moves quickly toward goals, embraces uncertainty, speaks up, and perseveres through challenges with confidence and integrity.
Delivers Results : Sets high standards and consistently delivers by focusing priorities and overcoming obstacles, and upholding organizational values.
Adaptable : Applies rigor by working thoroughly and following processes without cutting corners while remaining adaptable.
Lead with FBS : Goes to Gemba —observes real-world processes, not just meetings. Embraces FBS by applying its fundamentals to improve work, engage in kaizen, and continuously grow knowledge and usage.