Senior Product/UX Designer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 11, 2026. First seen by Alion on Nov 3, 2026. Abbott scores B on the Alion truth index.
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Working at Abbott
At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your family, be your true self, and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:
- Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
- Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
- An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution.
- Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
- A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
- A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.
The Opportunity
Our location in Lake Forest, IL has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Product Designer within our Core Labs business unit. Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories, and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments, and informatics systems is often the first step in patient care decision-making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers. This role is on site daily and is not hybrid.
What You’ll Work On
The Sr. Product Designer will apply their technical expertise in user-experience (UX) design and user interface (UI) design to design and develop point-of-care, medical diagnostic products for Infectious Diseases. They will focus on the user-facing design of product interfaces through the design, prototyping, and testing process. The person hired will closely collaborate with key partner teams, such as human factors, instrument software and industrial design to create easy-to-use and technically feasible diagnostic product systems that deliver a well-considered overall user experience.
- Work with R&D teams and strategic marketing to design and develop user experience (UX) design and user interface (UI) design concepts and prototypes for diagnostic product systems based on user-research and product strategy.
- Apply your user experience (UX) design and user interface (UI) design skillset to create UX journey maps, task-flow diagrams, UX/UI wireframes & prototypes across phases of the new product development process.
- Lead UX design & UX prototyping for usability studies to uncover user pain points & opportunities for design improvement.
- Plan and conduct usability (UX) testing and evolve the design based on the findings.
- Work with the application development team to implement UX/UI design concepts balancing interaction design, visual design, and technical feasibility.
- Be a critical thinker and creative problem solver who can design and mold unique, differentiated user experiences across desktop, web and mobile.
- Help define, lead, and evolve the Diagnostics Design System to ensure all products are both functionally and visually consistent.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in related area plus 5 years of work experience.
Preferred Qualifications
Previous experience of at least 1or more years of the following:
- Collaborating with cross-functional project teams to identify key requirements that have an impact to UX/UI Design. Provide strategic guidance related to UX/UI Design including design approach, key considerations, and trade-offs.
- Advocating the goals of UX/UI design across the division through effective communication with leadership and collaborators.
- Coordinating design activities with vendors and consultants to ensure prototypes or design services meet project requirements and milestones.
Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: https://abbottbenefits.com/
Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.
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The base pay for this position is
$78,000.00 - $156,000.00In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.