Lead UX Designer

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At Exact Sciences, we’re helping change how the world prevents, detects and guides treatment for cancer. We give patients and clinicians the clarity needed to make confident decisions when they matter most. Join our team to find a purpose-driven career, an inclusive culture, and robust benefits to support your life while you’re working to help others.

Position Overview

Exact Science’s 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.

The Lead UX Designer is responsible for helping to drive and facilitate the realization of the UX strategy and vision for multiple journeys within a given Experience. Your focus lies in shaping innovative design solutions, rooted in a deep understanding of the industry landscape, business and enabling technologies, as well as a profound, and an empathetic immersion into consumer mindsets, needs, and expectations.

Collaborating with diverse teams, including Designers, Copywriters, Content Strategists, Product partners, and Development partners, you’ll lead efforts in digital, marketing, and product design, emphasizing interaction design, visual design, design technology, and product management. Your role extends from defining interactions at various scales to overseeing the development of large, complex services and systems across owned, social, and partner digital platforms.

You excel in balancing the macro and micro aspects of design—driving a vision while remaining hands-on with the details. Your approach involves continuous analysis, iteration, solutioning, and delivery, maintaining a focus on the user at the center of everything you create.

As the lead, your responsibility includes bringing people together and accounting for a holistic Service Design that covers all touchpoints in a customer's journey, whether physical or digital. Your role involves navigating complex business, functional, and user challenges to drive the development of innovative experiences aligned with overall business and user objectives. Your expertise extends to delivering intricate design systems and frameworks, providing easily understood, scalable solutions that inspire and empower junior designers to excel.

You should be able to share examples of work that highlights your approach to design. This should demonstrate how you bring strategies to life in the creation of user-centered products and services experiences across various channels. Additionally, you should be able to provide instances where your work effectively communicated complex ideas and terminology through simple, engaging content experiences, ultimately driving positive business results.

Essential Duties

Include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Lead and facilitate active collaboration with strategists, researchers, product leaders, the Design Ops team, legal, regulatory, medical, labs, and the respective Experience Design team members to produce deliverables (e.g., wireframes, visual systems, interaction models, design specs, etc.) for multiple Journeys (e.g. 3+) in a given experience that are integrated, cross-touchpoint, cross-customer type, and cross-experience/journey.
• Advocate for the incorporation of user research into the experience's 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.
• 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 & 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.
• Provide leadership, mentorship, and support for more junior content staff. Execute and help guide teams to create outstanding, cohesive, and connected experiences across projects and platforms. Help develop comprehensive experiences by applying strategic design-thinking methodologies by providing a clear point-of-view, approach, and framework that guides effective design and implementation.
• Maintain morale and support employee engagement initiatives.
• Consistent demonstration of exceptional leadership qualities, including but not limited to the ability to attract and retain the best team, foster a culture of high performance, lead with integrity, humility, accountability, and courage, and set a clear vision to energize teams towards the future.   
• Effectively manage, support, and guide your team, including, but not limited to delegating tasks and responsibilities, assess employee performance and provide helpful feedback and training opportunities.
• Help support the writing, editing, and testing of content, and lead its improvement that makes our products and experiences easier to use across Exact Sciences products and experiences.
• Foster a welcoming environment regardless of background, sexual orientation, gender expression, religion, or ethnicity, and model these behaviors for the organization.
• Understand and prioritize problems, opportunities, and solutions that contribute to the product roadmap, strategy, and vision leveraging data, research, industry trends, and business objectives.
• 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 company's 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

• Bachelor’s 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 Bachelor’s degree.
• 8+ years of experience working as a UX Designer, with at least 5 years experience.
• 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.
• Authorization to work in the United States without sponsorship.
• 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.
• Authorization to work in the United States without sponsorship.

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.

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Salary Range:

$121,000.00 - $206,000.00

 

The annual base salary shown is for this position located in US - WI - Madison on a full-time basis and may differ by hiring location. In addition, this position is bonus eligible.

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.

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