Solution UX Lead Principal UX Designer; m​/f​/d

Start date: asap
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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

• Lead UX work streams 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 work streams
• 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

• 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.