Lead Designer, UX

Set the design direction for a significant product area and ensure design quality and consistency across its features.

Lead design systems work for your area, owning components, patterns, accessibility standards, and contribution guidelines.

Lead usability engineering activities, including planning and overseeing formative and summative usability testing and use-error analysis that support regulatory submissions under IEC 62366-1.

Act as a Human Factors Engineering (HFE) contributor for Software as a Medical Device, partnering with research & development, quality, regulatory, and clinical stakeholders.

Influence product strategy alongside cross-functional marketing product management, technical product management, software engineering, and data engineering leadership, and mentor designers across levels.

Bachelor's degree in design, human-computer interaction, software human factors, or a related field plus eight years of design experience, including leading the design of a major product area or equivalent work experience based on Edwards criteria

Deep proficiency with Figma and the team's research and usability toolset (e.g., Dovetail and / or UserTesting), design systems, and prototyping.

Experience planning and running formative and summative usability testing and applying software human factors methods.

This is an onsite role based in Irvine, CA. Relocation assistance is not provided, and candidates must reside within a 50-mile radius of Irvine to be considered.

The ability to communicate design rationale to senior stakeholders and to drive alignment across functions.

A track record of shipping high-quality design and improving outcomes through research and iteration.

Direct experience with usability engineering for medical devices (IEC 62366-1), including contributing to a usability engineering file or design history file.

Familiarity with SaMD regulatory expectations and quality management systems.

Experience owning a cross-product design system and accessibility framework.

Aligning our overall business objectives with performance, we offer competitive salaries, performance-based incentives, and a wide variety of benefits programs to address the diverse individual needs of our employees and their families. For California, the base pay range for this position is $126,000 - $178,000 (highly experienced). The pay for the successful candidate will depend on various factors (e.g., qualifications, education, prior experience). Applications will be accepted while this position is posted on our Careers website.

Edwards is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer including protected Veterans and individuals with disabilities.