Veranex’s mission as an
Innovation CRO is to improve patient outcomes by accelerating our clients’ innovations to market. As the world’s only end-to-end professional services firm focused on MedTech, we take clients’
Vision to Velocity through our comprehensive service portfolio, with expertise in human centered design and product development, preclinical and clinical research, regulatory affairs, and market access and reimbursement consulting.
About This Role:
Veranex has an exciting opportunity to join the Human-Centered Industrial Design team. You will be leading and supporting client projects that span early conceptualization through development and commercialization of MedTech, drug delivery, and diagnostics systems and products. This role reports to the Director of Human-Centered Industrial Design and collaborates with Research, Design & Human Factors teams globally.
As a Human-Centered Industrial Designer 2 (HCID 2), you will be responsible for representing and advocating for the user to deliver thoughtful design solutions that meet user needs, mitigate risk, and delight clients. You will be part of a cross-functional team considering all aspects of design and development to move designs through a phased-gate process towards production. You will partner with Project and Functional Leads, Industrial Designers, Design Engineers, UX/UI Designers, Human Factors and an array of different engineering disciplines to develop MedTech products from concept to commercialization.
The ideal candidate should be an innovative, creative, and well-organized self-starter. Passionate for delivering adaptive and creative solutions to design problems by staying up to date with best practices and emerging trends in industrial design, usability, form development, color, material, finish, and prototyping.
What You Will Do: - Human-Centered Industrial Design functional lead supporting client projects in the MedTech space. Leading and supporting the industrial design of medical and healthcare devices and technologies.
- Responsible for creating compelling design solutions that align user, technical, and business needs of the project.
- Ensure that all elements of the user experience are considered for usability, enabling technology, and overall business goals of our clients.
- Leverage exceptional visual design and communication skills on active client projects.
- Support a range of activities and deliverables that could include the following areas: concept generation, refined concept solutions, visual brand language and form development, 2-D and 3-D renderings creation, animations, low- to high-fidelity physical prototypes, specification packages, and client presentations.
- Support a culture of critical review and design critique with the aim of creating products and experiences that are intuitive and effective by use case.
- Collaboration with Research & Strategy and Human Factors Engineers to translate insights and user feedback into design solutions.
- Present design solutions to clients with clear design intent and able to plan design activities so the HCID team is set up for success on client projects.
- Advises client relationships as a design lead or supporting designer and supports the project team’s goals.
- Ability to develop client presentations, capturing the design process.
- Ability to work through tight deadlines by planning activities, setting expectations and pacing yourself to deliver within timeline and budget on projects. Works with the Director of HCID and senior-level design staff as needed to plan these activities.
- Support and build team culture and discipline expertise.
- Receives guidance and takes direction well from senior-level designers and leadership.
- Participates in fostering a creative, collaborative team through supporting HCID staff in conceptualizing comprehensive product design solutions.
- Shares knowledge and actively listens for the team’s needs.
- Assists management with team-building activities, as needed.
- Interest in gaining awareness of business development activities.
- Interest in understanding the proposal process, sales, and marketing activities.
- Advocate in the Industrial Design community to establish themselves as a leader.
Qualifications:
Required Skills & Experience
- BFA, BS, BA, or BID in Industrial Design or another related technical field.
- 2-4 years of relevant work experience in Industrial Design
- A portfolio of professional design work that showcases process, skills, and experiences.
- Proficient with 2-D and 3-D visual communication tools and software, including Adobe Creative Suite, Sketchbook Pro, Procreate, SolidWorks, Rhino, Miro, Figma, and Microsoft 365 suite.
- Ability to communicate visually and strong visual storytelling skills.
- Ability to develop client presentations, capturing the design process, and the value of design solutions with associated tradeoffs.
- Assistance with usability testing of early design prototypes, while capturing user feedback for integration into the system.
- Strong organizational, time management, and prioritization skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Preferred Skills & Experience
- Experience in the design of medical devices and products.
- Experience in collaborating with User Researchers; working knowledge or experience with design research including contextual inquiry, heuristics, formative, and summative studies, etc.
- Experience in collaborating with Human Factors Engineers to inform design solutions with an understanding of ergonomic considerations and best practices.
- Experience in collaborating with a range of engineering backgrounds on development programs; having a basic knowledge of working mechanisms and construction methods.
- Experience leveraging AI for conceptual activities; working knowledge and implementation of AR/VR software and tools is a plus.
Veranex is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination of any kind. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard for race, color, religion or belief, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity or gender expression), sexual orientation, parental or marital status, disability, age, status as a protected veteran, national, social, or ethnic origin, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics.
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