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Sr. UX Designer

Abbott · Madison, WI · $78,000–$156,000 a year · Full time

Posted Aug 28, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026

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About your past

Tell me about a design you changed because of user research.

What they are checking: Whether they let evidence change their work rather than defending their first idea.

Tell me about a time you balanced business, user and technology needs in one design.

What they are checking: Whether they can find a solution that works for all three, not just one.

What would you do

A product owner wants a feature that research shows patients don't need. How do you handle it?

What they are checking: Whether they can push back with data while keeping the relationship strong.

How do you work with engineers to make sure the built product matches the design?

What they are checking: Whether they stay involved through delivery instead of handing off and walking away.

About the work

The CDX team groups work into Experiences like Understand Risks and Complete Screening. How would you design a journey for that experience?

What they are checking: Whether they can design across digital and physical touchpoints in a real patient journey.

What does service design mean to you, and how is it different from screen design?

What they are checking: Whether they think beyond the interface to the whole system a patient or provider moves through.

How do you tie a design decision to an OKR the team is measured on?

What they are checking: Whether they can show business impact, which this team is accountable for.

How do you design for patients who may be anxious, older or less comfortable with technology?

What they are checking: Whether they think about accessibility and emotion in healthcare design.

Walk me through how you test a prototype with real users.

What they are checking: Whether they run sound usability tests and avoid leading participants.

How do you handle privacy and regulatory limits when designing for patients and providers?

What they are checking: Whether they know healthcare design has constraints that shape what is allowed.

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The full job description

As published by Abbott.

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, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries. JOB DESCRIPTION: The Opportunity Abbott’s Customer & Digital Experience (CDX) team is responsible for defining, driving, and delivering innovative, immersive, memorable customer-centric journeys for all our customers, across all channels (digital and physical). These journeys are grouped by Customer Types (e.g., Patient, Provider) and further categorized into a set of Experiences (e.g., Understand Risks & Complete Screening, Confirm Diagnosis). Each Experience has a set of specific, measurable Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) that the overall team is accountable to fulfill. The UX Designer level is responsible for assisting the realization of the UX strategy and vision for one or more journeys within a given Experience. In the journeys, this position facilitates accounting for a holistic Service Design, which encompasses all touchpoints with a given customer, both digital and physical. This position facilitates addressing the business, user, and technology UX requirements through continuous analysis, iteration, solutioning, and delivery. With a customer-centric, digital-first approach, and in collaboration with development teams, business stakeholders, strategy, research, product, and analytics teams, this role will help build out Journeys and frameworks in the form of: information architectures, design systems, low to high fidelity prototypes, task and workflow modeling, rapid iterative usability testing, in-depth testing, best-practice implementation, and ensuring the ongoing practical and creative quality of user experience. What You’ll Work On Include, but are not limited to, the following: • Collaborate with CDX Strategists, CDX Researchers, the Experience Management & Capability team and the respective Experience Design team members to produce Service Design deliverables (e.g., Service Blueprints) for one or more Journeys in a given Experience that are integrated, cross-touchpoint, cross-Customer Type, and Cross-Experience/Journey. • Assist with the design, execution, and incorporation of user research into the design of the relative Journeys. • Facilitate the use of Design Thinking, storytelling, and conceptual prototypes to compellingly convey the vision, flow, and features of the products/services being designed. • Facilitate creation and adoption of design systems, website interaction models, information architectures, user task flows, and screen designs; turn complex information into intuitive graphics, charts, and other forms of visualization data. • Facilitate use of ideation and sketching for storyboards and prototyping; create low- and medium-fidelity prototypes to test proposed Journeys. • Support the adaption of the enterprise wide UX best practices, standards, principles, and design thinking processes for use by the respective UX, Product, and Engineering teams; advocate for these standards, principles, processes. • Support collaboration with Strategy, Product, and Engineering peer leadership to foster active collaboration across the teams, remove impediments, and ensure delivery of the overall Experience vision & OKRs. • Support advocacy for the Experience's/Journey’s UX vision. • Uphold company mission and values through accountability, innovation, integrity, quality, and teamwork. • Support and comply with the company's Quality Management System policies and procedures. • Ability to act with an inclusion mindset and model these behaviors for the organization. • Travel Requirements: Ability to travel 5-10% of working time away from work location, may include overnight/weekend travel. Required Qualifications • Bachelor’s degree in Design, Marketing, Business, Life Sciences, Engineering, or related field of study; or High School Degree/General Education Diploma and 4+ years of relevant experience as outlined in the essential duties in lieu of Bachelor’s degree. • 4+ years of experience working as a UX Designer and familiarity with Agile / Scrum / Kanban methodologies. • Experience in applying techniques and methods of modern user experience design, discovery, and delivery – along with expertise with design/user experience platforms and tools (e.g., Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, Sketch, Miro). • Strong knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Adobe Creative Suite applications, and associated design tools. • Demonstrated strong understanding of the current web and mobile technology landscape. • Strong understanding of human centered design and design thinking methodologies. • Experience in creating accessible, inclusive, and equitable design. • Experience in using design systems (Material, Carbon, Fluent, etc). • Experience in problem-solving, organizational, and analytical skills with the ability to evolve UX strategy based on research, data, and industry trends. • Experience in translating complex user, business, operational, and technical requirements into clear, accurate, compelling user experience deliverables. • Experience in relationship building, motivation, and curiosity to bring together different personalities for creative thinking and collaborative solutioning. • Experience working with strategists, product managers, engineers, researchers, and SMEs in a constructive and collaborative relationship. • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to agilely adapt to the respective audience (team member to more senior leadership). • Organizational and time management skills with a proactive and logical approach to workload and ability to work both independently and within a team. • Demonstrated ability to perform the Essential Duties of the position with or without accommodation. • Authorization to work without sponsorship. Preferred Qualifications • Experience mentoring more junior UX Designers. • Experience in healthcare, wellness, or digital health. • Experience with service design (both digital and physical), and operations. • Experience with both B2C and B2B products and/or services. • Experience with react framework. The base pay for this position is $78,000.00 – $156,000.00 In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted. JOB FAMILY: Project Management DIVISION: ONCO Cancer Diagnostics LOCATION: United States > Madison : 5505 Endeavor Ln ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS: WORK SHIFT: Standard TRAVEL: No MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE: No SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES: Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday) Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans. 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