Posted Position Title Director, Next Generation Imaging User Experience

Job Number	1768199
Business	GE Healthcare
Business Segment	Healthcare IT
About Us	Interested in transforming healthcare through the development of next generation user interfaces and workflows for information technologies? GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, performance improvement, drug discovery, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies is helping clinicians around the world re-imagine new ways to predict, diagnose, inform and treat disease, so their patients can live their lives to the fullest. GE Healthcare's broad range of products and services enable healthcare providers to better diagnose and treat cancer, heart disease, neurological diseases, and other conditions earlier. Our vision for the future is to enable a new "early health" model of care focused on earlier diagnosis, pre-symptomatic disease detection and disease prevention. Headquartered in the United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a $17 billion unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE). Worldwide, GE Healthcare employs more than 46,000 people committed to serving healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries.
Career Level	Experienced
Function	Engineering/Technology
Function Segment	Product Design and Development
Location(s) Where Opening Is Available	United States
U.S. State, China or Canada Provinces	Pennsylvania
City	Pittsburgh
Postal Code	15235-5407
Relocation Expenses	No
Role Summary/Purpose	GE is an equal opportunity employer, offering a great work environment, challenging career opportunities, professional training and competitive compensation. This role will inspire, guide and ensure interactions across a cross-functional team of design researchers, interaction designers, human factors & usability specialists, design technologists, and visual designers in multiple sites and environments. The team will collaborate with users, product management, marketing, and engineering teams to help evolve new and existing user interfaces and workflows across GE’s Enterprise Imaging IT portfolio.
Essential Responsibilities	* Set strategic direction for User Experience across a breadth of products and technologies. * Help in recruitment of skilled UX practitioners across the organization * Coach and mentor UX practitioners. * Lead and assist in the creation of formative design research deliverables including user profiles, personas, use environment profiles, and conceptual designs. * Lead and influence the creation of interaction design and information architecture deliverables such as site maps, workflows, user interaction models, low- through high-fidelity prototypes, and graphic assets. * Lead the execution and documentation of iterative usability testing activities, and ensure that findings are implemented within the design. * Lead the consistent implementation of GEHC UI design standards and pattern libraries to solutions under investigation and development. * Identify and share trends and methodologies relevant to user experience. * Effectively partner with product management, engineering, and other internal stakeholders to ensure programs receive appropriate UX support. Familiarity with Agile product development methods and frameworks. * Compellingly communicate UX research findings and recommendations to internal stakeholders at all levels of the business and to external customers.
Qualifications/Requirements	* Bachelor’s degree in design / fine arts, psychology, engineering, science, or closely-related field. * At least 5 years of combined professional experience applying user experience methods toward product design, and leading multidisciplinary teams of UX practitioners. * Proficiency with UX/UI research, design and prototyping tools such as Adobe Creative Suite, Axure, Balsamiq Mockups, Morae, SPSS, SAS, or Tobii eye tracking. * Portfolio demonstrating track record of individual contributions and team leadership in design research, interaction/visual design, and human factors/usability methods toward creating commercialized products and experiences that improved customer satisfaction. * Excellent conceptual, problem-solving and oral/written communication skills * You must be willing to submit a background investigation, including for example, verification of past employment, criminal history, and educational background * You must be willing to take a drug test *You must be legally authorized to work in the United States * You must be willing to work from our GEHC facility in Pittsburgh, PA. * Able to travel up to 35% (Domestic and International).
Additional Eligibility Qualifications	GE will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background investigation and drug screen.
Desired Characteristics	* Master’s or Doctorate in fine arts, or psychology with a concentration in human-computer interaction, human factors / ergonomics, engineering, science, design / interaction design, new- or multi- media design, information architecture, design research, or closely-related specialty. *Demonstrated expertise in applying design research methodologies such as contextual inquiry, focus groups, and interviews. *Demonstrated expertise in applying interaction design and human factors methodologies such as card sorting, task analysis, heuristic analysis, cognitive walk-through, expert review, site maps, workflows, eye-tracking studies, and low- through high-fidelity prototyping. * Familiarity with integrating user-centered design techniques within an Agile development environment * Familiarity with design control and regulatory practices and standards for medical devices. * Experience in designing for the consumer electronics, mobile applications, and healthcare/medical devices domains. * Track record of creating intellectual property