Start date: asap
Latest Start date: ..6
Planed Durration: Months (extension possible)
Workload: %
Contract Type: Contracting
Location: Rotkreuz
Remote: 2-3 days
Travel: less than % (only once in a while to Germany for project team meetings)
Team size: ca. 6-7
Your tasks:
1. Lead UX workstreams across discovery, concept development, validation, implementation support, and launch preparation
2. Translate business objectives, customer insights, workflow needs, and regulatory context into actionable design decisions
3. Plan, estimate, structure, and manage UX activities, deliverables, dependencies, timelines, and resource needs
4. Coordinate designers, researchers, and cross-functional contributors across multiple workstreams
5. Ensure design deliverables are high quality, consistent, evidence-based, and ready for development and validation
6. Partner with Product Management, Engineering, Regulatory, Quality, Clinical, Service, and business stakeholders
7. Integrate UX work into agile delivery, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, PI Planning, system demos, and release planning
8. Identify risks, interdependencies, scope changes, and bottlenecks early, and propose mitigation actions or prepare escalation
9. Facilitate workshops, design reviews, prioritization sessions, and stakeholder alignment meetings
10. Coach designers and cross-functional teams on UX methods, customer-centricity, and design best practices
11. Represent UX in governance meetings, project reviews, customer engagements, and strategic discussions
12. Contribute to improving design leadership operations, estimation practices, team rituals, and delivery efficiency
Your Profile:
13. 8+ years of experience in UX design, product design, service design, human factors, design research, or a related field. *****
14. Degree in UX Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Industrial Design, Service Design, Human Factors or a related field.
15. Proven experience leading UX for complex digital or hardware products, services, platforms, or healthcare solutions. *****
16. Strong project management skills, including planning, estimation, prioritization, dependency management, risk management, and progress tracking. *****
17. Ability to define UX work packages, delivery milestones, staffing needs, and effort estimates.
18. Experience working with Product Management, Engineering, Regulatory, Quality, Research, and business stakeholders.
19. Strong facilitation, storytelling, communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
20. Ability to manage ambiguity, structure complex problems, and translate insights into practical design direction.
21. Experience working in agile product development environments. *****
22. Experience with SAFe, Agile Release Trains, PI Planning, Lean UX, or scaled agile delivery is a strong plus.
23. Experience in healthcare, diagnostics, medical devices, life sciences, laboratory workflows, or regulated industries is highly desirable.
24. Experience managing UX work across distributed, global, or matrixed teams.
25. Strong command of English; additional languages such as German are a plus.