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Lead UX Designer

Boston MAFull-time$80k–$100k2026-09-02 → 2026-11-11
Hybrid · United States

Core

Lead UX strategy, research, and design execution for athenahealth's EHR and practice management products to support healthcare teams.

Role type

Senior Lead UX Designer (Healthcare EHR)

Builds

EHR and practice management product experiences for healthcare organizations

Domain

Healthcare / Enterprise Software

Deliverable

product features

Required skills

User research, UX strategy, prototyping, design systems, stakeholder management, agile collaboration, AI tool usage

Preferred skills

Designing for complex enterprise/healthcare products, AI tools in design workflow

Technologies

Prototyping tools, AI design tools

Responsibilities

Lead discovery and framing of user-centered problems; Facilitate visioning sessions and translate ideas into sketches, flows, wireframes, and prototypes; Conduct and synthesize user research, heuristic reviews, and client feedback; Partner with product and engineering throughout agile planning, development, and release cycles; Develop interaction models and workflows that simplify complex user, system, and data relationships; Present design concepts, recommendations, and tradeoffs to stakeholders; Mentor junior designers through design reviews, feedback, and day-to-day collaboration; Support team-level design practices and process improvements; Use AI tools to accelerate design exploration, prototyping, and refinement; Travel required 20% annually.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with mentorship responsibilities