What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Product Designer position at Datavant?
Datavant is a data platform company and the world's leader in health data exchange. Our vision is that every healthcare decision is powered by the right data, at the right time, in the right format.
Our platform is powered by the largest, most diverse health data network in the U.S., enabling data to be secure, accessible and usable to inform better health decisions. Datavant is trusted by the world's leading life sciences companies, government agencies, and those who deliver and pay for care.
By joining Datavant today, you're stepping onto a high-performing, values-driven team. Together, we're rising to the challenge of tackling some of healthcare's most complex problems with technology-forward solutions. Datavanters bring a diversity of professional, educational and life experiences to realize our bold vision for healthcare.
As a leader of our Product Design team, you will be managing designers and designing our most critical user experiences by the end of your first week. Your work will be critical to growing our business, which will ultimately improve patient outcomes. You will collaborate with our clients and internal teams to incorporate user feedback into new flows and interfaces and help us decide what to build, not just how to build it. If this sounds exciting to you, we'd love for you to apply!
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Leadership & Management
- Lead and mentor designers and UX researchers on the team
- Create a center for excellence around product design. This should include best practices, templates, and principles that relate to all designers
- Foster a collaborative and inclusive team environment
- Design
- You will own the end to end product design process, from research to implementation
- You will craft, distill and deliver elegant designs that make using our products functional, intuitive and delightful
- You know how to deliver an intuitive and self-service workflow and experience for users (both internal stakeholders and external clients) from inherently complicated and technical products
- You will facilitate user research including workflow mapping, requirements gathering, usability testing, and other feedback to inform design decisions
- You will find creative solutions for tough problems and work smarter around technical limitations
- You will use data and metrics to iterate on product designs and improve overall user experience and impact of our products
- You will present your ideas to a varied audience (product managers to technical architects and developers) and iterate product designs with our technical teams and work closely with them to understand all the technical functionality and constraints of the application
- You will facilitate and evolve the look and feel of the Datavant product design language, its components and design patterns
- You are a team player - you are smart, nice and low ego. You enjoy working smoothly with peers and support teammates to ensure growth and success of the entire company. You are able to put yourself in others' positions and understand their motivations, needs, perspectives and potential points of confusion.
- You will be excited by the ambiguity of an entrepreneurial, rapidly growing company, and able to juggle many projects and responsibilities; you see and understand the big picture and will know how to contribute to it by delivering new features, projects and value month by month
QUALIFICATIONS
- Driven, entrepreneurial with a focus on tracking impact of design improvements
- 8 years of relevant work experience in user research and design, preferable with experience in enterprise product design
- 2 years of experience in a leadership role managing other designers
- Experience with creating user interfaces that navigate through complex technical workflows
- Ability to communicate effectively with different client personas, as well as cross-functionally with internal partners (including Product Manager, Engineering, Go To Market, Customer Experience, and Marketing)
- Solid understanding of user-centered design methods across the full UX lifecycle
- Great understanding of information hierarchy and design patterns: You should be able to produce quality designs (we use Figma)
- Used to working collaboratively in a multi-disciplined agile team.
- Navigate comfortably between being "hands-on-in-the-detail" of projects and contributing to the wider program of work
- You have high bandwidth, high productivity, and highly organized - you are noted for your ability to simultaneously manage multiple topics
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Relevant Bachelor or Masters degree in relevant field
- Prior B2B experience
- Familiarity working with data products
- Experience in the healthcare industry
WHAT WE LOOK FOR:
- Track Record of Success
- Strong portfolio to demonstrate your work
- Interest in Datavant
- Ability to Navigate Ambiguity
- Self Advocating
- Curiosity
- Humility
- Structured Communicator
- Collaborative/Team Player
We are committed to building a diverse team of Datavanters who are all responsible for stewarding a high-performance culture in which all Datavanters belong and thrive. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.
At Datavant our total rewards strategy powers a high-growth, high-performance, health technology company that rewards our employees for transforming health care through creating industry-defining data logistics products and services.
The range posted is for a given job title, which can include multiple levels. Individual rates for the same job title may differ based on their level, responsibilities, skills, and experience for a specific job.
To ensure the safety of patients and staff, many of our clients require post-offer health screenings and proof and/or completion of various vaccinations such as the flu shot, Tdap, COVID-19, etc. Any requests to be exempted from these requirements will be reviewed by Datavant Human Resources and determined on a case-by-case basis. Depending on the state in which you will be working, exemptions may be available on the basis of disability, medical contraindications to the vaccine or any of its components, pregnancy or pregnancy-related medical conditions, and/or religion.
This job is not eligible for employment sponsorship.
Datavant is committed to a work environment free from job discrimination. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.To learn more about our commitment, please review our EEO Commitment Statement here. Know Your Rights, explore the resources available through the EEOC for more information regarding your legal rights and protections. In addition, Datavant does not and will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay.
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We are committed to building a diverse team of Datavanters where every Datavanter is empowered to bring their authentic self to their work. We are all responsible for stewarding a high-performance culture in which all Datavanters belong and thrive. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.
Salary : $210,000 - $250,000
