Senior MedTech UI/UX Designer - Design System Lead

LivaNova PLC; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 160,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401K retirement plan

Employee stock purchase plan

Training & education assistance

Flexible work schedules

Job summary

LivaNova PLC is hiring a UI Designer to define and deliver intuitive, visually compelling user experiences for implantable devices and connected care ecosystems. You will translate clinical workflows into elegant interfaces, rapid prototypes, and validated experiences across multiple products while upholding a consistent product family experience.

You will own the design system, drive production‑ready specs, and collaborate with product, engineering, regulatory, and marketing teams to ensure

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience as a Product UI Designer, with at least 3 recent years in the medical device industry.
• Strong verbal and written communication and proven cross‑functional collaboration skills.
• Self‑starter who proactively drives outcomes, negotiates trade‑offs, and works independently when needed.
• Excellent teamwork, partnering, and negotiation abilities to align stakeholders and move projects forward.
• Experience applying mobile and web interface standards such as Android Material Design and Apple Human Interface Guidelines.
• Fluent with Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud, or equivalent design, prototyping, and research tools.
• Design systems experience: creating, maintaining, and scaling component libraries and documented patterns for multi‑product consistency.

Responsibilities

• Own the strategic evolution of LivaNova’s multi-brand Design System, driving improvements to components, tokens, and documentation.
• Resolve complex, cross‑functional design issues spanning multiple products and teams, serving as senior escalation point for high‑complexity UI problems.
• Define and scale UI operations by establishing team processes and governance to ensure consistent, repeatable delivery.
• Collaborate with product managers, engineering, human factors, regulatory, legal, security, and marketing to align on safety, usability, and go‑to‑market needs.
• Elevate UI practices by defining, documenting, and sharing standardized design processes and templates.
• Define information architecture and data flows for device and companion applications.
• Produce high‑fidelity UI designs and motion cues reflecting brand and clinical needs.
• Build interactive prototypes for concept validation and engineering alignment.
• Deliver production‑ready specs and handoff artifacts (tokens, assets, states) and guidelines.
• Maintain and evolve the design system with reusable components and documentation.

Skills

UI design

Cross-functional collaboration

Mobile/web guidelines

Figma

Adobe Creative Cloud

Design systems

Prototyping

Developer handoff

Education

Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design

Tools

Figma

Adobe Creative Cloud

Job description

LivaNova PLC is hiring a UI Designer to define and deliver intuitive, visually compelling user experiences for implantable devices and connected care ecosystems. You will translate clinical workflows into elegant interfaces, rapid prototypes, and validated experiences across multiple products while upholding a consistent product family experience.

You will own the design system, drive production‑ready specs, and collaborate with product, engineering, regulatory, and marketing teams to ensure