Manager User Experience Design - User Experience

Myriad Genetics Salt Lake City, Utah
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July 3, 2023
Myriad Genetics
Salt Lake City, Utah
Job Description

As a Product Design Manager, you will report to the VP of Design & User Experience and be responsible for managing a team of UX and Visual designers. If you have a passion for transforming patients' lives and designing workflows to make the patient and provider experience easier, then this is the role for you!

Responsibilities:

The UX Manager provides day to day management of a group of user experience designers focused on one segment of our business. In this role you will:
  • Maintain an effective and enthusiastic team with an open and positive attitude.
  • Acts as mentor and motivator and encourages collaboration within the team and with our stakeholders
  • Work with direct reports to establish regular objectives and tracks their progress
  • Write and deliver performance reviews
  • Manage design activities within the group, as well as direct hands-on participation where warranted.
  • Ensure the quality of design work and adherence to brand and accessibility standards.
  • Conduct design reviews to ensure alignment with key stakeholders in product management and engineering as well as at times medical, legal, regulatory, and compliance.
  • Build strong relationships with peers in Engineering, Product and other groups, often involving situations which require influencing and persuading others.
  • Support collaborative, innovative culture that advocates user-centered design and a positive customer experience.
  • Take responsibility when problems or opportunities are identified within the group, and initiate actions that result in high-quality solutions.
  • Be perceived to be a leader by others, who look to you for guidance and direction.


Required Experience & Skills
  • 5+ years of experience in user experience design, interaction design, visual and user interface design, information architecture, or service design.
  • Experienced leader with 2+ years of experience hiring, developing, and managing UX professionals.
  • Proficiency with Figma (our primary tool) or similar tools.
  • Ability to facilitate critiques and mentor your team in gracefully accepting feedback.
  • A portfolio featuring examples of outstanding design work in SaaS platforms, apps or services. May also include dashboards, reports and any medical/health related work.
  • Expertise of interactive UX/UI design and methodologies, communication, storytelling and problem solving
  • Experience working in an agile development environment
  • Ability to work collaboratively with Product Design and content, and help align, alongside partners and stakeholders, strategic steps forward portfolios of work.
  • Degree in design related field (UX, cognitive science, fine arts, etc), completion of a design bootcamp or certification program, OR equivalent work experience
  • Experience creating end-to-end experiences, including desktop, mobile web, mobile app, and enterprise software
  • Travel 4 to 6 times a year to meet with the team, visit Myriad offices (California, Utah, or Ohio) and participate in user research visits.
  • Nice to have: Experience working in health care or scientific products


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About Us

Myriad Genetics Inc., is a leading personalized medicine company dedicated to being a trusted advisor transforming patient lives worldwide with pioneering molecular diagnostics. Myriad discovers and commercializes molecular diagnostic tests that: determine the risk of developing disease, accurately diagnose disease, assess the risk of disease progression, and guide treatment decisions across six major medical specialties where molecular diagnostics can significantly improve patient care and lower healthcare costs. Myriad is focused on three strategic imperatives: maintaining leadership in an expanding hereditary cancer market, diversifying its product portfolio through the introduction of new products and increasing the revenue contribution from international markets. For more information on how Myriad is making a difference, please visit the Company's website: www.myriad.com .

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