UX Manager with an industrial design background

UX Manager with an industrial design background to MedTech market leader in Hörby/Malmö

This is an exciting role, in which you will be part of a diverse and highly effective team, contributing to the overall growth of a market leader in medical devices. You will be instrumental in leading innovation in a user-centric perspective, making sure we solve for true needs and bring real value to our customers.

As our UX Manager, you will lead the front-end innovation team making sure we do the right things through discovery and exploration stages as well as maturing ideas and technologies. You will lead the insights work and guide our design teams through ideation and concept development, making sure that true needs are implemented as design objectives and thereby play a central role in scoping innovation opportunities.

Our innovation process is built on design thinking principles and we have a clear focus on making sure we define pain relievers and gain creators based on the customer insights and observations on what works and what’s not. In this role, you have the opportunity to continuously improve how we do things and provide the means and toolbox to help the team accelerate value creation.

You will work in close collaboration with our product owners and product managers in translating user needs into features making sure that we address each challenge starting with user desire. In this position, you will report directly to the Vice President R&D.

 

Your main duties and responsibilities


• Head of front-end innovation team
• Acting project manager through ideation and concept development
• Gatekeeper of user needs and user experience deliveries
• Core member in innovation projects
• Industrial design assuring implementation of our design DNA

Your experience

We believe that you have a background in industrial design and that you are very well acquainted with design thinking and more than 5 years’ experience in relevant roles. It is beneficial if you have experience in agile working methods and that you are capable of making the call on what method for execution is best suited for succeeding with the solution.

 

Your professional skills


• Excellent communication and fluent in English and Swedish
• Excellent in sketch work, illustration and conceptual design
• Excellent in the application of design thinking principles in an agile environment
• Strong networking and collaboration within and across organizations
• Great at establishing followers with a can-do attitude

 

Personal competences and performance goals


• Developed ability for abstraction and big picture thinking
• Accountable and ambitious
• Ability to maintain a positive, open and objective attitude towards others
• Creative and curious explorer
• Passionate about creating real values for real people

 

Workplace and contact info
The position is full-time and located in Hörby, only 25 minutes north of Lund.

Please send in your application in English or Swedish as soon as possible - we carry out continuous review of candidates. Last application date is set to 2021-02-21

 

For questions, please feel free to contact:

 

Mikael Melefors
Vice President R&D
+46703198670
mikael.melefors@atosmedical.com

 

We offer:

You will be part of an entrepreneurial, informal yet ambitious work environment in which international teams work together to continuously grow and develop the business. You are expected to contribute from day one, and you will have great opportunities to be challenged, to learn and develop your professional and personal competencies.

 

Join us and help people breathe, speak and live again

Atos Medical is a specialized medical device company for voice and pulmonary rehabilitation for cancer patients who have lost their voice box through cancer, and as a result live with a neck stoma, affecting their ability to breathe and speak.

At Atos Medical, we are all about making life easier for people living with a neck stoma. We design, manufacture and sell our entire core portfolio directly to leading institutions, health care professionals and users. With technologies built on decades of experience, and a deep understanding of our customers, we provide personalized care and innovative solutions.

Working at Atos Medical means working within a diverse, global organization with great opportunities to grow and learn from others. Our aspiration is to create a culture built on purpose, pride and sustainable growth. We believe that an open work environment, meaningful and challenging roles and development opportunities all contribute to employee engagement. We strongly believe that our best work is co-created. It is only when we build on each other's ideas, skills and experiences, within and across teams, that truly innovative products and solutions are created.

Atos Medical is a global leader with Swedish headquarters and more than 20 subsidiaries worldwide. We are committed to living our values: we listen – we inspire – we focus – we engage every day.