Human Factors Specialist – Medical Devices & UX Design

Cambridge Design Partnership; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Discretionary bonus

Learning and development opportunities

12% non-contributory pension

Private healthcare

Electric vehicle lease salary sac.

Share incentive plan

33 days holiday

Job summary

Cambridge Design Partnership (CDP) seeks a design professional to work within multidisciplinary teams on innovative healthcare and consumer products. You will apply human factors engineering and user-centred design to create safe, effective, and intuitive devices and interfaces.

You will contribute to early concept development, usability studies, and supporting sales and proposals while maintaining detailed understanding of product systems and user workflows.

Qualifications

• Degree-educated or equivalent in a Physical Science, Product Design or Engineering related field.
• Demonstrable experience of user interface design of technical products.
• Awareness of operating within a commercial environment.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate as part of a multidisciplinary team developing products for our external customers.
• Apply user-centred design and new product development methodologies to products during product development, including generating and evaluating early concepts and generating human factors documentation.
• Build a detailed understanding of technical device systems and their users to develop, evaluate, and iterate user workflows and interaction designs that support safe, effective, and intuitive use across different user populations.
• Develop user interface solutions for a range of products with a focus on medical devices and life science products.
• Support the design, implementation and reporting of concept testing and usability studies and translating user research into physical and digital user interfaces.
• Design and facilitate workshops with a user-centred focus, internally or with external stakeholders
• Communicate project progress through reports, in-person meetings, and video calls with external clients.
• Contribute to sales and marketing efforts, such as input to proposals or marketing collateral, or researching new technical areas.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

User-centred design

New product development

Autonomous working

Customer advocate

User research

Usability research setup

Presentation skills

Sales/marketing support

Attention to detail

MS Office

Education

Physical Science / Product Design / Engineering

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Cambridge Design Partnership (CDP) seeks a design professional to work within multidisciplinary teams on innovative healthcare and consumer products. You will apply human factors engineering and user-centred design to create safe, effective, and intuitive devices and interfaces.

You will contribute to early concept development, usability studies, and supporting sales and proposals while maintaining detailed understanding of product systems and user workflows.