GE HealthCare · 20 hours ago
Architect, User Research
Chicago
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$136K/yr - $203K/yr
10+ years expGE HealthCare is a leading company in the healthcare sector, seeking an Architect for User Research. The role involves conducting and analyzing user research to inform design principles and product solutions, while advocating for user-centered design practices across cross-functional teams.
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Responsibilities
Create specific design principles that capture the vision and critical concerns for a project
Propose design or product solutions based on research and synthesis outcomes
Select and use appropriate design research methods to address design opportunities
Plan, conduct and lead interview sessions with users and stakeholders, including executives
Build consensus among individuals and groups
Identify and summarize meaningful insights derived from design research
Lead multiple projects of various sizes in a cross-functional environment
Advocate for user research and help champion buy in from stakeholders and businesses
Produce and guide effective documentation of research and testing including notes, photos, video and resulting analysis
Participate in and begin to influence the business-wide discussions relative to the future direction of user experience initiatives
Lead evaluation of current and emerging design, technology, industry, and market trends
Qualification
Required
Master's Degree in HCI, Information Management, or Social Sciences with minimum years of experience: 10 years
Ability to create basic project plans for UX projects or the UX portion of a larger development project
Experience leading individual interviews/workshops with individual contributors
Experience creating research protocols with guidance
Ability to select appropriate research methods to answer questions and develop holistic understanding of user and customer needs
Deep knowledge and previous experience with research tools such as UserTesting, Qualtrics or Alchemer, and Axure
Mastery of Agile / Lean UX methodologies
Understanding of key cross-functional concepts that impact the company, business priorities, & organizational dynamics
Keeps current on industry landscape; ability to map industry trends to internal vision
Ability to communicate effectively with various stakeholder groups
Understanding of key principles of design thinking and research, what it is and why it is important
Understands that designing, validating, developing and deploying products and services for infrastructure-level domains requires attention to complexities between systems
Works to create an understanding of how individual people and things fit within larger structures (like systems or organizations), as well as the relationships between parts of a system and the system as a whole
Experience translating user-centered design requirements into technical implementations for projects, measuring deliverables and balancing competing objectives
Ability to clearly articulate technology options to collaborators on cross functional team
Understands the value of a rigorous and transparent decision-making process
Experience working with cross-functional teams and cross-business teams to assist in driving broad-reaching solutions across the function / business
Ability to inspire and influence change
Ability to contribute to constructive conversations utilizing active listening and validating the information needs of stakeholders and users
Demonstrated deep passion for learning and courage to push the boundaries of one's own thinking
History of learning and integrating new methods to drive improved outcomes
Preferred
Ideal candidate would have worked in healthcare in the MRI domain and have had experience executing user research to inform a design system
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
Paid time off
A 401(k) plan with employee and company contribution opportunities
Life
Disability
Accident insurance
Tuition reimbursement
Company
GE HealthCare
GE Healthcare provides a wide range of medical technologies and services to healthcare providers and researchers. It is a sub-organization of General Electric.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$5.52BKey Investors
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
2024-11-07Post Ipo Secondary· $1.17B
2024-09-12Post Ipo Secondary· $1.29B
2024-02-16Post Ipo Secondary· $1.07B
Leadership Team
Catherine Estrampes
President and CEO, US & Canada
Luiz Verzegnassi
President & CEO, Services
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