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UX Designer

  • Application Deadline: Rolling
  • Company: CVS Health
  • Location: Buffalo Grove, Illinois

Job Description

As a UX Product Designer, you will be an integral part of an innovative and bold initiative that takes a modern approach of disciplined agile and lean software practices aimed at transforming healthcare and pharmacy. The UX Product Designer is essential to ensuring product success and end-user satisfaction in a highly collaborative environment that follows the Extreme Programming (XP) methodology. The UX Product Designer position is responsible for taking a user-centered approach to design in finding the right solution for users as part of a small, cross-functional product team. You will help educate both business and technology teams on the XP process and how the traditional UX role changes, as well as lead products from discovery through iterative delivery. A firm understanding of user-centered design principles and user research methodologies is crucial for success in the role. Empathy, creative problem-solving, comfort with uncertainty, pairing with team members, excellent communication skills, curiosity and learning are the foundational characteristics of the UX Product Designer. The position is located in the Irving TX, Buffalo Grove IL or Scottsdale AZ offices, and candidates must be able to be in the office daily to work with their product team.

Additional responsibilities of the UX Product Designer include:

  • Solve the right problem through the understanding of user needs in order to deliver new or improved products and services that have real impact
  • Bring a lean/iterative mindset; be open to having conversations over documentation
  • Full-stack designer: assist with all dimensions of design –research, usability evaluation, information architecture, wireframes, visual, CSS and HTML – it’s ok not be an expert in all, as long as you are open and want to learn
  • Work with cross-functional teams and pair with everyone –other designers, product managers, and product engineers
  • Embrace an agile mindset: be willing to adapt an experiment with design process
  • Stay up-to-date on UX/UI design industry best practices and trends

Required Qualifications

  • 3+ years experience, with the following:
    • 1+ years of experience as a UX Architect, UX Designer, or Product Designer role.
    • 1+ year of experience in one of the 3 design areas of expertise: user research, user experience design or interaction design.
    • 1+ year of experience working with Agile and lean philosophies
    • 1+ year of experience executing user-centered design methodologies and assisting with product design decisions from research through implementation, preferably alongside a more senior UX Product Designer 1+ years of experience working in design and prototyping software tools such as Axure, InVision or Sketch
    • 1+ years of experience with modern front-end technologies and open source frameworks (e.g. Material Design, HTML/CSS, grid systems, responsive design)

COVID Requirements

COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement

CVS Health requires certain colleagues to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (including any booster shots if required), where allowable under the law, unless they are approved for a reasonable accommodation based on disability, medical condition, religious belief, or other legally recognized reasons that prevents them from being vaccinated.

You are required to have received at least one COVID-19 shot prior to your first day of employment and to provide proof of your vaccination status or apply for a reasonable accommodation within the first 10 days of your employment. Please note that in some states and roles, you may be required to provide proof of full vaccination or an approved reasonable accommodation before you can begin to actively work.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Psychology, Fine Arts or Computer Science
  • Experience with UX design advocacy within large business and technology organizations
  • Exceptional written, verbal, and visual communication skills
  • A strong work ethic (we start and end on time, together, daily)
  • Ability to rapidly prototype
  • Willingness to present on design topics internally
  • Knowledge of the pharmacy and healthcare industries
  • Knowledge of cloud-based technology platforms

Education

High School Diploma or GED and equivalent years of experience

Business Overview

Bring your heart to CVS Health

Every one of us at CVS Health shares a single, clear purpose: Bringing our heart to every moment of your health. This purpose guides our commitment to deliver enhanced human-centric health care for a rapidly changing world. Anchored in our brand — with heart at its center — our purpose sends a personal message that how we deliver our services is just as important as what we deliver.

Our Heart At Work Behaviors™ support this purpose. We want everyone who works at CVS Health to feel empowered by the role they play in transforming our culture and accelerating our ability to innovate and deliver solutions to make health care more personal, convenient and affordable.

We strive to promote and sustain a culture of diversity, inclusion and belonging every day.

CVS Health is an affirmative action employer, and is an equal opportunity employer, as are the physician-owned businesses for which CVS Health provides management services. We do not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, promotion, or any other personnel action based on race, ethnicity, color, national origin, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

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