Sr. UX UI Designer

Overview

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Responsibilities

• As a Senior Product Designer, you’ll take the lead in shaping key products and features from the ground up, defining how they work, look, and feel.
• You will be working with both Web and Mobile applications. You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams to turn complex human needs into clear, intuitive digital experiences.
• This is a hands-on role: you\'ll sketch, prototype, test, and refine designs, ensuring that every experience is not only intuitive but also deeply human-centered.
• Interaction Design – Analyze business requirements and user needs to create user flows and task flow diagrams. Translate your ideas into wireframes and prototypes for stakeholder and user feedback.
• Visual Design – Create beautiful mock-ups of visual designs consistent with UI guidelines and Abbott’s brand standards.
• Design System – Utilize the company’s design system to create new templates and user flows, working closely with the engineering team.
• Collaboration – Work closely with product managers and user researchers to understand customer needs and make informed design decisions. Negotiate technical feasibility of your designs with engineering and support agile teams in developing high-quality user interfaces.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Design / Human Factors or related field, with a minimum of 3 years relevant work experience but prefer closer to 6+ years of experience.
• A sophisticated design sensibility with a refined eye for UI patterns, visual hierarchy, and strong visual execution, including layout, typography, color, and micro interactions.
• Experience in creating, evolving, and maintaining design systems to ensure a cohesive and scalable visual language across all product surfaces and platforms.
• A robust portfolio showcasing recent work, especially consumer products, with clear evidence of the impact of design decisions.
• Proficiency in design and prototyping tools such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite.
• Ability to translate business goals and audience needs into impactful designs, from concept to final execution.
• Strong prototyping and animation skills across different levels of fidelity.
• Passion for crafting engaging, intuitive, and visually appealing experiences, with a clear vision for how designs should look and behave.
• Expertise in usability and accessibility, ensuring inclusive and functional design for all users.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, capable of effectively articulating design rationale to diverse stakeholders.
• Strong communication skills, capable of working effectively across different teams and disciplines.
• MUST provide a Portfolio link with resume; if password-protected, please provide the password.

Details

• Work options: Remote
• Title: Product Designer / UI UX Designer
• Location: Abbott Park, IL, Remote 100%
• Duration: 12 Months
• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Contract
• Job function: Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology
• Industries: Hospitals and Health Care

Benefits

• Consultants Eligible Benefits Upon Waiting Period
• Medical and Prescription Drug Plans
• Dental Plan
• Vision Plan
• Health Savings Account (for High Deductible Health Plans)
• Flexible Spending Accounts (Health, Limited Purpose, Dependent Care, Commuter Parking and Commuter Transit)
• Supplemental Life Insurance
• Short Term Disability (coverage varies by state)
• Long Term Disability
• Critical Illness, Hospital coverage, Accident Insurance
• MetLife Legal, MetLife ID Fraud, and MetLife Pet Insurance
• 401(k)

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritional and branded generic medicines.

Working together, Abbott and Talent Solutions partner to deliver top talent for contingent roles at Abbott, building better and healthier lives. Abbott believes all employees are essential to creating life-changing breakthroughs, performing key duties to create life-changing breakthroughs.