Senior Product Designer, Operational Insights

at  Olympus Corporation of the Americas

Workplace Flexibility: Field
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JOB DESCRIPTION

The Senior Product Designer (Product Designer III) is a high-level performer with strong relationships and the ability to lead projects throughout the Digital Health Unit. The Senior Product Designer has a history of contributing to multiple shipped projects throughout their career.
As a Senior Product Designer, in the Digital Health unit, you will join our design team to drive outcomes by creating elegant user-centered product solutions. The ideal candidate is a critical contributor who will work across the entire design process including but not limited to, user research, user experience, and interface design of responsive web-based applications, embedded software applications, and digital services. Working directly with a product manager, engineering lead, and a team of engineers, this employee will work both strategically and hands-on to drive outcomes and launch zero-to-one digital solutions.

ABOUT US:

Our Medical business uses innovative capabilities in medical technology, therapeutic intervention, and precision manufacturing to help healthcare professionals deliver diagnostic, therapeutic, and minimally invasive procedures to improve clinical outcomes, reduce costs, and enhance the quality of life for patients and their safety.
Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, Olympus employs more than 31,000 employees worldwide in nearly 40 countries and regions. Olympus Corporation of the Americas, a wholly owned subsidiary of Olympus Corporation, is headquartered in Center Valley, Pennsylvania, USA, and employs more than 5,200 employees throughout locations in North and South America. For more information, visit www.olympusamerica.com.

OUR PURPOSE IS TO MAKE PEOPLE’S LIVES HEALTHIER, SAFER, AND MORE FULFILLING.

Our Core Values are reflected in all we do: Integrity – Empathy – Agility – Unity – Long-Term View
We deliver on our purpose and our core values by staying True to Life.

JOB DUTIES

• Work strategically as a partner with product management, engineering, and design leadership to execute the design of next generation products from 0-1.
• Think big and explore divergent concepts while understanding how to converge and build iteratively towards a vision and set of defined requirements.
• Uses human-centered design methodologies to elevate requirements go beyond best practices to introduce innovative ideas for a solution.
• Help develop and lead the process for a design problem/project/
• Create low, medium, and high-fidelity wireframes, mock-ups, and interactive prototypes to communicate your work.
• Lead workshops, brainstorming sessions, and other design thinking exercises with their direct squad, tribe leads, and with outside stakeholders in exploring a design/product problem.
• Strong understanding of how people use the product/services you design and uses this knowledge to identify, define, and solve strategic problems with your squad and tribe.
• Uses user research, product/business strategy, and success metrics to focus and reprioritize their squad’s or tribe’s efforts.
• Actively contribute to weekly design critiques to share with and seek input from other designers.
• Advocate for design by sharing your work with your squad, tribe leads, and external stakeholders.
• Precisely articulates design rationale and goals, with your cross-functional partners, tribe leads, and external stakeholders.
• Able to juggle 2-3 design problems/projects at a time.
• Help lead innovation across the organization by driving the adoption of user-centered processes, methodologies, and tools.
• Active in the hiring process, uses good judgement for evaluating ta