Google Hiring for Director, UX, Google Health at Palo Alto, CA Full Time
Applications will be accepted through August 9th, 2021.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Design, User Experience, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field or equivalent practical experience.
- 15 years of experience in UX team leadership and management, creating amazing products and growing talented teams.
- A portfolio demonstrating experience in leading large, complex web and mobile product designs.
- Experience in healthcare, public health, or related field.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master’s degree in UX-related field.
- 3 years of experience in an executive level role (or equivalent) creating strategy and leading design teams.
- Effective analytical, design and management skills and a proven track record of shipping successful software experiences.
- Understanding of the healthcare industry and experience leading clinician products in the space.
- Experience in protecting user privacy and an understanding of privacy concepts.
About the job
As part of Google Health’s mission, we are developing technology solutions to enable care teams to deliver better, faster and more connected care. Patient data is often complex, confusing, and scattered across different systems. Care Studio is a new product line that enables clinicians to search, browse and see highlights across a patient’s broader electronic health record, pulling relevant data into an integrated, longitudinal view to help clinicians spend more time caring for patients.
User experience (UX) is at the forefront of how we create intuitive, innovative, and beautiful products that people love. We strive to learn and understand our users’ needs, behaviors, and emotions to gather insights that inform product strategy and design. Our UX teams include designers, researchers, content strategists, and engineers who are passionate about quality, usability, and simplicity. We work in collaborative teams to solve complex challenges and craft experiences that showcase our products’ unique capabilities.
As the Director of User Experience for Google Health you will demonstrated a design portfolio of work, proven leadership abilities of scaling and growing teams, and industry-level contributions that shape the UX community as a whole.
Google Health has made major advances in healthcare research, such as detecting eye disease more quickly and accurately than experts, planning cancer radiotherapy treatment in seconds rather than hours, and working to detect patient deterioration before it happens with electronic records.
Fundamental research is at the core of Google Health – the multidisciplinary team collaborates with partners to publish novel research in renowned scientific journals. They then work to apply this research into the medical field through clinical hardware and products developed in Google. Working alongside colleagues across Google, you’ll help make this vision a reality.
Responsibilities
- Play a strategic and leadership role in defining and developing end-to-end experiences and innovations that aim to improve health and quality of life for millions of people.
- Help set a vision for how Google will assist clinicians and healthcare organizations as they address healthcare needs over the next 10 years and beyond.
- Lead a group of UX professionals to design and co-create a suite of experiences including: data mapping and harmonization systems, realtime health operational systems, and fundamental clinicians surfaces that help them understand information and take action in providing the best care possible for patients.
- Contribute strategically to an effective, ambitious roadmap and tactically on organizing and building a multi-site design team.
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