Principle UI/UX Designer -

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 29 Aug 2025

 

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

UI Designer

Careers that Change Lives

Medtronic aims to contribute to human welfare by application of biomedical engineering in the research, design, manufacture, and sale of instruments or appliances that alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. To recognize the personal worth of all employees, Medtronic provides an employment framework that allows personal satisfaction in work accomplished, security, advancement opportunity, and means to share in the company's success. If you consider joining the team and you are committed to doing meaningful work, making a difference, and improving lives, you will find a culture of collaboration and innovation at Medtronic. Starting the road to your rewarding career with them will come with competitive pay, bonuses, and benefits supporting your work-life balance.

In the role as UI Designer, you will work with the Product Design team to advance existing technology or introduce novel technologies and therapies, specifically in Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence. You will work with key stakeholders to understand, define, and design the user interface of the products in HealthCast Acute Care and Monitoring. Additionally, the individual will be responsible for building tight collaboration and a culture of trust within the Digital Health and AI organization.

A Day in the Life

As a UI Designer, you will be accountable for supporting and owning the UI elements, design, and creation for HealthCast projects. The UI Designer will also collaborate closely with the Chief Designer to ensure that a cohesive design language is being followed. The UI Designer will also collaborate with the Human Factors Design Engineer to iterate on the design and communicate the final design to the Scrum Team. 

Responsibilities Include:

• Strong understanding of user experience principles, which are customer facing and additionally medical device centered. 
• Experience with design tools like Figma, Miro or other visual design and prototyping tools
• Creation, management and maintenance of the design system.
• Ability to translate user needs and features into design requirements, UI components and user flows
• Ability to build visual and interaction designs for a single product while supporting design needs on other products
• Collaboration with the design team to build journey maps, user personas and wireframes
• Responsible for managing engagement with other design firms
• Collaboration with the Chief Designer and other UI/UX designers to create alignment across products in the ecosystem
• Ability to manage ambiguity, work autonomously and keep organized and multitask. 
• Understanding of business needs with product management experience
• Understanding of stage gate processes for projects within the medical device project lifecycle
• Documenting design as part of a design history file
• Organizational collaborator on DH&AI enabled initiatives to leverage cross disciplinary and globally distributed teams to craft high-quality products and services that customers love and drive preference 
• Collaborate with other leaders to ensure successful development, release, and launch of world-class product (portfolio/program)

Must Have: Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years' experience in the medical device industry in systems, digital or software development with proven record of accomplishment. Knowledge of Agile methodology is nice to have. 
• Experience in 5+ major product or portfolio releases. Experience in a regulated product industry is nice to have.
• Ability to quickly understand complex system behaviors, engineering problems, technical and architectural constraints.
• A robust design portfolio articulating past design work
• Excellent verbal and written and communication skills with an aptitude for convincing others, both internally and externally, of the value of their ideas.

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position. 

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.

Benefits & Compensation
 

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create.  We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
 

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$149,600.00 - $224,400.00

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification/education, market conditions, and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20+ hours per week: Health, Dental and vision insurance, Health Savings Account, Healthcare Flexible Spending Account, Life insurance, Long-term disability leave, Dependent daycare spending account, Tuition assistance/reimbursement, and Simple Steps (global well-being program).

 

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees: Incentive plans, 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match, Short-term disability, Paid time off, Paid holidays, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Employee Assistance Program, Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums), and Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums).

 

Regular employees are those who are not temporary, such as interns.  Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time, as required under applicable state law, and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.

 

Further details are available at the link below:

Medtronic benefits and compensation plans

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people. 
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here.

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.