Start date: asap
Latest Start date: 03.08.2026
Planed Durration: 12 Months (extension possible)
Workload: 100%
Contract Type: Contracting
Location: Rotkreuz
Remote: 2-3 days
Travel: less than 10% (only once in a while to Germany for project team meetings)
Team size: ca. 6-7
Your tasks:
* Lead UX workstreams across discovery, concept development, validation, implementation support, and launch preparation
* Translate business objectives, customer insights, workflow needs, and regulatory context into actionable design decisions
* Plan, estimate, structure, and manage UX activities, deliverables, dependencies, timelines, and resource needs
* Coordinate designers, researchers, and cross-functional contributors across multiple workstreams
* Ensure design deliverables are high quality, consistent, evidence-based, and ready for development and validation
* Partner with Product Management, Engineering, Regulatory, Quality, Clinical, Service, and business stakeholders
* Integrate UX work into agile delivery, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, PI Planning, system demos, and release planning
* Identify risks, interdependencies, scope changes, and bottlenecks early, and propose mitigation actions or prepare escalation
* Facilitate workshops, design reviews, prioritization sessions, and stakeholder alignment meetings
* Coach designers and cross-functional teams on UX methods, customer-centricity, and design best practices
* Represent UX in governance meetings, project reviews, customer engagements, and strategic discussions
* Contribute to improving design leadership operations, estimation practices, team rituals, and delivery efficiency
Your Profile:
* 8+ years of experience in UX design, product design, service design, human factors, design research, or a related field. *****
* Degree in UX Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Industrial Design, Service Design, Human Factors or a related field.
* Proven experience leading UX for complex digital or hardware products, services, platforms, or healthcare solutions. *****
* Strong project management skills, including planning, estimation, prioritization, dependency management, risk management, and progress tracking. *****
* Ability to define UX work packages, delivery milestones, staffing needs, and effort estimates.
* Experience working with Product Management, Engineering, Regulatory, Quality, Research, and business stakeholders.
* Strong facilitation, storytelling, communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
* Ability to manage ambiguity, structure complex problems, and translate insights into practical design direction.
* Experience working in agile product development environments. *****
* Experience with SAFe, Agile Release Trains, PI Planning, Lean UX, or scaled agile delivery is a strong plus.
* Experience in healthcare, diagnostics, medical devices, life sciences, laboratory workflows, or regulated industries is highly desirable.
* Experience managing UX work across distributed, global, or matrixed teams.
* Strong command of English; additional languages such as German are a plus.
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