About the Role
The UI/UX Designer defines and delivers intuitive, visually compelling user experiences for an implantable medical device platform and its connected-care ecosystem. This role combines strong visual design skills with user-centered product design, translating clinical workflows and user needs into elegant interfaces, rapid prototypes, and validated experiences across multiple concurrent products while preserving a consistent product-family experience.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end UX for assigned products from discovery through delivery, ensuring user-centered, validated solutions.
- Conduct user research and testing with clinicians and patients; synthesize findings into clear requirements and improvements.
- Design and prototype interaction models, wireframes, and high-fidelity UIs to communicate intent and enable implementation.
- Maintain a scalable design system and production-ready specs to ensure portfolio-wide consistency and efficient handoffs.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, engineering, human factors, regulatory, legal, security, and marketing to align on safety, usability, and go-to-market needs.
- Elevate UI/UX best practices and methodologies by defining, documenting, and sharing standardized design processes, templates, and governance to ensure consistent, repeatable delivery.
- Lead discovery activities: run stakeholder interviews, contextual inquiry, and workflow mapping with clinicians and patients.
- Synthesize research into requirements: create user personas, journey maps, and prioritized UX requirements.
- Define information architecture: establish navigation, content hierarchy, and data flows for device and companion applications.
- Create interaction models and wireframes: produce low- and mid-fidelity artifacts to validate flows and behaviors.
- Produce high-fidelity UI designs: deliver pixel‑perfect screens, visual assets, and motion cues that reflect brand and clinical needs.
- Build interactive prototypes: create clickable prototypes for concept validation, stakeholder reviews, and engineering alignment.
- Plan and run UX and usability testing: design test plans, recruit participants, run sessions, synthesize results, and produce actionable reports.
- Deliver production-ready specs: provide annotated designs, component specs, and developer handoff artifacts (tokens, assets, logic rules/states, and guidelines).
- Maintain and evolve the design system: create reusable components, documentation, and versioning to ensure portfolio consistency.
- Define and scale UX operations: establish team best practices, templates, and workflows; support growth of UX maturity across processes, tools, and standards.
Requirements
- Strong verbal and written communication and proven cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Highly motivated self-starter who proactively drives outcomes, negotiates trade-offs, and works independently when needed.
- Excellent teamwork, partnering, and negotiation abilities to align stakeholders and move projects forward.
- Deep knowledge of current UX methodologies, design processes, and usability principles.
- Experience applying mobile and web interface standards such as Android Material Design and Apple Human Interface Guidelines.
- Fluent with Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud, Dovetail, or equivalent design, prototyping, and research tools.
- Usability testing and research practice: planning, running sessions, synthesizing findings, and reporting actionable recommendations.
- Design systems experience: creating, maintaining, and scaling component libraries and documented patterns for multi-product consistency.
Skills
- Figma
- Adobe Creative Cloud
- Dovetail
- UX methodologies
- Design processes
- Usability principles
- Mobile interface standards
- Web interface standards
- Android Material Design
- Apple Human Interface Guidelines
- Usability testing
- UX research
- Design systems
- Component libraries
- Pattern documentation
Location
- Houston area
Work Type
- Onsite
- Moderate travel (up to 25%)
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Human Factors, Industrial Design, Psychology, Cognitive Science, or a related field.
- Master’s degree in HCI, Human Factors, Interaction Design, or a closely related discipline (Preferred).
- Relevant certifications and coursework (e.g., UX research, human factors, accessibility, design systems) considered a plus.
Salary/Compensations
- $160,000 - $180,000 plus discretionary annual bonus
Benefits
- Health benefits – Medical, Dental, Vision
- Personal and Vacation Time
- Retirement & Savings Plan (401K)
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Training & Education Assistance
- Bonus Referral Program
- Service Awards
- Employee Recognition Program
- Flexible Work Schedules
About the Company
- As a global medtech company, we are driven by our Vision of changing the trajectory of lives for a new day and our Mission to create ingenious solutions that ignite patient turnarounds.
- Our relentless commitment to patients and strong legacy of innovation in healthcare are the foundation of our future.
- If you're looking for a new chance, a new beginning, a new trajectory, LivaNova is where your talent can truly thrive.
- Join our talented team members worldwide to become a pioneer of tomorrow—because at LivaNova, we don’t just treat conditions — we aspire to alter the course of lives.
- We treat our work as if lives depend on it – because they do.
- As a people-oriented company, our employees around the world are fully committed to making the world a better place.
- Our team’s commitment to improve quality of life is the embodiment of our company Vision and Mission, making a difference every day for patients and their families.
- Interested in learning more about working at LivaNova? Visit careers.livanova.com for more.
Equal Opportunity
- LivaNova values equality and diversity.
- We are committed to ensuring that our recruitment process is fair, transparent and free from unlawful discrimination.
- Our selection process is driven by the key demands/requirements for the role rather than bias or discrimination on the basis of a candidate’s sex, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, non-job-related disability/handicap or medical condition, family status, sexual orientation, religion, color, ethnicity, race or any other legally protected classification.
