Senior UI/UX Designer – Surgical Planning Platform

Exceptional Dental; Carlsbad (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Carlsmed is seeking a Contract Sr. UI/UX Designer to craft intuitive experiences for our surgical planning platform.

You will translate complex clinical workflows into usable interfaces for surgeons, clinicians, and internal teams, influencing image-based planning, data visualization, and workflow automation. You will collaborate with product, engineering, and clinical stakeholders to ensure usability engineering and design controls meet regulatory requirements, while driving a scalable design

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a related field.
• 8+ years of UI/UX design experience for web, desktop, or enterprise software.
• Experience designing workflow-intensive or data-rich interfaces.
• Strong command of design and prototyping tools (Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, Axure).
• Familiarity with usability engineering, risk mitigation, and traceability in regulated environments (IEC 62366, ISO 13485).
• Understanding of user diversity— from operators to clinicians and business stakeholders.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills; able to balance user needs, business goals, and regulatory constraints.

Responsibilities

• Conduct interviews, workflow studies, and contextual observation with surgeons, clinicians, and internal users to understand goals, challenges, and workflow constraints.
• Translate clinical and operational insights into clear user requirements and design opportunities.
• Design intuitive user interfaces for complex desktop and web applications supporting surgical planning and visualization.
• Develop consistent interaction patterns and navigation models across the platform.
• Create low- and high-fidelity wireframes, mockups, and interactive prototypes.
• Plan and conduct usability testing with representative users to validate design effectiveness.
• Iterate designs based on user feedback, workflow analysis, and product requirements.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of a scalable design system for the platform.
• Contribute to UI standards that promote consistency, accessibility, and usability.

Skills

UI/UX design

User-centered design

Prototyping

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Visual storytelling

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Human-Computer Interaction, UX Design, Industrial Design, Computer Science, or related field

Tools

Figma

Sketch

Adobe XD

Axure

Job description

Carlsmed is seeking a Contract Sr. UI/UX Designer to craft intuitive experiences for our surgical planning platform.

You will translate complex clinical workflows into usable interfaces for surgeons, clinicians, and internal teams, influencing image-based planning, data visualization, and workflow automation. You will collaborate with product, engineering, and clinical stakeholders to ensure usability engineering and design controls meet regulatory requirements, while driving a scalable design