Lead UX Designer AI

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Position Overview

Exact Sciences Customer Experience (CX) 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.

As a Lead UX Designer AI you will help shape define and drive high-impact design initiatives across digital product and marketing platforms. You will blend systems thinking with hands-on execution bringing structure to complex problems and elevating the craft of design through thoughtful scalable human-centered solutions. Youll lead by example guiding teams toward clarity consistency and innovation.

You will guide experience vision interaction patterns and system-level design across journeys and touchpoints helping to unify design efforts across web mobile physical and hybrid platforms. Your design work is grounded in deep empathy curiosity and a strong understanding of user mindsets behaviors and expectations. You design with people at the center delivering solutions that reduce friction build trust and empower patients and providers to make confident informed decisions.

You excel at balancing the strategic and the tactical able to see the big picture of experience ecosystems while refining the details of interaction design flows and component-level polish. You bring structure to ambiguity elevate the role of design in cross-functional work and advocate for excellence at every level of execution. Your approach is rooted in systems thinking iterative testing and collaborative problem-solving always with an eye toward both business outcomes and human impact.

As a hands-on proactive collaborative design leader youll work closely with Product Managers Engineers Researchers Content Strategists and Legal Marketing and Medical partners. Youll help teams navigate complexity compliance and competing priorities driving forward experience strategies that are scalable accessible and compliant. Youll shape the end-to-end design process and help teams deliver solutions that balance innovation with feasibility.

As a craft leader and mentor youll model design excellence and help build a culture of feedback continuous learning and shared ownership. Youll support junior and mid-level designers in growing their skills and craft while contributing directly to high-impact work. You know how to guide vision define process manage stakeholders and roll up your sleeves to contribute at every level ensuring quality delivery.

You have a strong track record of delivering thoughtful inclusive and high-quality digital experiences in complex environments. Youre able to balance priorities and understand the impact of key decisions. Your leadership empowers cross-functional teams to execute design thats not only effective but deeply human.

You should be prepared to share a portfolio that demonstrates your ability to simplify complexity bring strategy to life through experience and create work that resonates with diverse audiences. Your work reflects a deep commitment to solving the right problems driving meaningful outcomes at scale and facilitating thoughtful interactions.

This role is onsite in Madison or La Jolla CA.

Essential Duties

Include but are not limited to the following:

• Independently lead and facilitate active collaboration with strategists researchers product leaders legal regulatory medical labs and the respective Experience Design team members to produce deliverables that scale across journeys and platforms with minimal guidance.
• Support a team of designers providing informal coaching feedback and direction to help them do their best work on a project.
• Research and stay up-to-date to help support the adoption of the enterprise-wide design best- practices standards principles and the usage of AI into your daily practice.
• Develop advanced prototypes and animations or define motion characteristics.
• Advocate for the incorporation of user research into the experiences UX vision provide strategic rigor and thoughtfulness throughout the creation of products and experiences from vision and conception to launch and optimization/governance - possess the knowledge and passion to articulate it clearly confidently concisely and compellingly across audiences.
• Evolve and champion our design system to ensure that it is driving efficiencies and is tailored to the respective audience needs.
• Serve as a subject-matter expert in all things design and help lead both partners and peers alike to help think how design drives utility and inspires equally.
• Remove impediments and ensure delivery of the overall experience vision & results aligned to OKRs. Building and maintaining collaborative relationships with senior leadership and other departments (e.g. Marketing) will also be required.
• Research and stay up-to-date to help lead the adaption of the enterprise-wide UX best practices standards principles and design thinking processes for use by the respective UX Product and Development teams; serve as an advocate for these standards principles processes.
• Create systems and strategies that help designers thrive. Lead the use of design thinking storytelling and conceptual prototypes to compellingly convey the vision flow and features of the products/services being designed.
• Understand and prioritize time problems opportunities and solutions that contribute to the product roadmap strategy and vision leveraging data research industry trends and business objectives.
• Maintainmorale and support employee engagement initiatives.
• Foster a welcoming environment regardless of background sexual orientation gender expression religion or ethnicity and model these behaviors for the organization.
• Uphold company mission and values through accountability innovation integrity quality and teamwork.
• Ability to effectively manage legal reviews and feedback cycles.
• Support and comply with the companys 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 10-20% of working time away from work location may include overnight/weekend travel.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Design Marketing Business Life Sciences 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 Bachelors degree.
• 8 years of experience working as a UX Designer with at least 5 years of experience in a senior or lead capacity.
• Extensive 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 Miro Jira).
• Experience with content management systems (Sitecore a plus) and user testing tools.
• Experience in simplifying and communicating complex ideas to broad audiences.
• Experience in managing a design process from strategy to delivery of final product.
• Experience in collaborating with and influencing product engineering design and operational teams.
• Experience in creating designs that optimize for varied ecosystems that leverage known persona or archetypal work SEO and measurement objectives.
• Advanced understanding of accessible inclusive and equitable design
• Experience with the principles of Agile/Scrum/Kanban.
• Strong organizational and time management skills with a proactive and logical approach to workload and ability to work both independently and within a team. Ability to effectively plan organize and prioritize work.
• Demonstrated ability to perform the Essential Duties of the position with or without accommodation.
• Strong working knowledge of HTML CSS JavaScript Adobe Creative Suite applications and associated design tools.
• Demonstrated strong understanding of the current web and mobile technology landscape.
• Advanced understanding of human centered design and design thinking methodologies.
• Experience creating accessible inclusive and equitable design.
• Knowledge of best-in-class design systems (Material Carbon Fluent etc) and their pros and cons. Experience in evolving/adapting design systems or building them from scratch.
• Extensive experience problem-solving organizational and analytical skills with the ability to evolve UX strategy based on research data and industry trends.
• Strong analysis skills; including but not limited to process and user flow definition.
• Extensive 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.
• Extensive experience engaging with strategists product managers engineers researchers SMEs and company leaders in a constructive and collaborative relationship where you can both learn and influence.
• Experience recruiting coordinating developing and managing a team.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to agilely adapt to the respective audience (team member to senior leadership).
• Strong 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.
• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in country where work will be performed on a full or part-time basis. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas at this time.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in healthcare wellness or digital health.
• Experience with service design and operations.
• Experience with both B2C and B2B products and/or services.
• Experience within large organizations
• Experience with Sitecore React and Angular frameworks.
• Experience with no-code tools to help support the experience
• Experience using AI to help enhance experiences or create efficiencies in process

Salary Range:

Exact Sciences is proud to offer an employee experience that includes paid time off (including days for vacation holidays volunteering and personal time) paid leave for parents and caregivers a retirement savings plan wellness support and health benefits including medical prescription drug dental and vision coverage. Learn more about our benefits.

Our success relies on the experiences and perspectives of a diverse team and Exact Sciences fosters a culture where all employees can develop personally and professionally with a sense of respect and belonging. If you require an accommodation please contact us here.

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