Principal Ux Designer

Johnson & Johnson Johnson & Johnson · Pharma · Santa Clara, CA +1 · Remote

This role is for a Principal UX Designer focused on defining the user experience for robotic surgical systems, including GUI, light, and sound. The designer will collaborate with engineering, industrial design, and product management to advance the vision for surgical robotics, create experience visions, align designs with the roadmap, and craft the best user experience for the medical team. Responsibilities include crafting visions and strategies for robotic systems, managing complex scenarios, building a design system, ensuring high-level design delivery, refining the product roadmap, partnering with engineering, and mentoring junior designers. The role requires a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a related field, significant experience in designing digital experiences for sophisticated systems or medical devices, and technical leadership experience with UX design teams. Proficiency in UX design tools and a strong portfolio are essential. Familiarity with medical industry regulations is preferred.

What you'd actually do

  1. Craft visions, concepts and UX strategies - both autonomously and working with other designers - for the OTTAVA™ and MONARCH™ family of medical robots
  2. Take charge of ambiguous and complex scenarios in the robotic experiences all the way to design definition and implementation
  3. Build out and ensure adherence to an evolving design system that meets the needs of multiple user interactions
  4. Ensure UX team is delivering designs at a high level, including workflows, pixel-perfect screens, and robust documentation, all tying back to applicable user requirements
  5. Work with Marketing and project leadership to refine and advise the product roadmap

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's or equivalent experience in Human-Computer Interaction, Digital/Visual Design, Industrial Design or other related field
  • At least 10 years of proven ability to design digital experiences for highly sophisticated systems and/or medical devices (or Masters plus 8 years)
  • 4+ years experience technically leading teams of UX designers in solving problems and generating compelling solutions
  • Experience influencing and leading stakeholders without direct management responsibility
  • Experience with end-to-end product development with multiple products launched
  • Experience producing designs for embedded UIs though touch, sound, 3D vision and/or AR/VR, collaborating with industrial designers and user researchers
  • Proficiency with typical UX design tools (Figma, Adobe Suite, etc.) and prototyping tools (e.g. Protopie, Principle, etc.)
  • Strong portfolio demonstrating an outcome-focused, innovative design process and interaction design expertise

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with the regulations of the medical or pharmaceutical industry
  • Experience with AR/VR design

What the JD emphasized

  • highly sophisticated systems
  • medical devices
  • surgical robotics