Sr Visual Designer – Digital Products

Company Description

At Intuitive, we are united behind our mission: we believe that minimally invasive care is life-enhancing care. Through ingenuity and intelligent technology, we expand the potential of physicians to heal without constraints.

As a pioneer and market leader in robotic-assisted surgery, we strive to foster an inclusive and diverse team, committed to making a difference. For more than 25 years, we have worked with hospitals and care teams around the world to help solve some of healthcare's hardest challenges and advance what is possible.

Intuitive has been built by the efforts of great people from diverse backgrounds. We believe great ideas can come from anywhere. We strive to foster an inclusive culture built around diversity of thought and mutual respect. We lead with inclusion and empower our team members to do their best work as their most authentic selves.

Passionate people who want to make a difference drive our culture. Our team members are grounded in integrity, have a strong capacity to learn, the energy to get things done, and bring diverse, real world experiences to help us think in new ways. We actively invest in our team members to support their long-term growth so they can continue to advance our mission and achieve their highest potential.

Join a team committed to taking big leaps forward for a global community of healthcare professionals and their patients. Together, let's advance the world of minimally invasive care.

Job Description

Primary Function of the Position

Digital design is a crucial responsibility at Intuitive, with our work bridging multiple disciplines. We bring a human-centered design process to healthcare innovation and the development of interfaces that are safe, effective, and impactful.

As a Senior Visual Designer on the Digital UX team, you'll take a lead design role on Intuitive’s 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 Intuitive’s visual design system vocabulary to some of our most vital surgeon-facing applications to make our digital applications visually consistent, compelling, and delightful to use. 

You are a flexible and dynamic professional who strives for innovative and elegant solutions in all endeavors. The ideal candidate is passionate about intentional aesthetics and the critical role design systems play in product continuity. This candidate should have experience designing end-to-end user interfaces for a wide range of products and services.  You'll play a key role in providing meaningful information to surgeons at the right place and time. 

All applications must include a link to an online portfolio.  If a password is required, your application must include the portfolio password.  Applications lacking portfolios will not be considered.

Essential Job Duties

• Lead visual design efforts within Intuitive’s suite of digital products.  Consistently guide our 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 Intuitive 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 across Intuitive’s product ecosystem

Qualifications

Required Skills, Education and Training

• Minimum five years of enterprise-level experience in visual product design (in-house, agency, or freelance)
• A demonstrated track record of successfully working in close collaboration with interaction designers, product owners, design system owners, and engineering partners on visual design efforts that put the user’s needs first.
• A design portfolio demonstrating fluent visual design skills on complex data-driven digital products; examples we’re looking for would include (but are not limited to) building and implementing design systems, data visualization efforts, interactions with video, or personalized data dashboards.
• Minimum bachelor's degree in design, human sciences (e.g., Cognitive Science, Psychology, Human Factors), or information science.  Advanced degree preferred.
• Demonstrated expert knowledge of Figma, component libraries, and the implementation of design systems
• Demonstrated proficiency in the use of team collaboration tools (e.g., Jira, Slack)
• Ideally, experience working in the medical device industry and/or healthcare
• Ability to travel occasionally as needed to Sunnyvale, CA, for meetings, workshops, and collaborative project activities

Working Conditions

• This is a “Purposeful Onsite” role.  Job duties will primarily be performed remotely by the successful candidate.  Occasional travel will be required.

Additional Information

Due to the nature of our business and the role, please note that Intuitive and/or your customer(s) may require that you show current proof of vaccination against certain diseases including COVID-19.  Details can vary by role.

Intuitive is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees, and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type, without regard to race, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status, genetic information or any other status protected under federal, state, or local applicable laws.

We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with fair chance laws.

Preference will be given to qualified candidates who do not reside, or plan to reside, in Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, or Tennessee.

We provide market-competitive compensation packages, inclusive of base pay, incentives, benefits, and equity. It would not be typical for someone to be hired at the top end of range for the role, as actual pay will be determined based on several factors, including experience, skills, and qualifications. The target salary ranges are listed.