Lead Product Designer IGT Systems

Lead Product Designer IGT Systems at Philips

Job Description

You will have the opportunity to define excellent user experience for products and solutions developed by the Image Guided Therapy Systems (IGT-S) business unit. IGT focuses on treating patients better by innovating minimally invasive surgery procedures so they can go back to living the lives they love. This role is focused on the hardware/industrial design which is a key pillar of IGT’s success. If you really want to make an impact on people's lives, this is the opportunity for you! The position is based in Best (NL).

At Philips, we follow a human-centered design process including analysis, exploration, storytelling, concept design, prototyping, concept and usability testing. The ideal candidate has strong visualization, interaction, information architecture and prototyping skills in addition to being comfortable working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team.

You are responsible for leading the product design direction across multiple projects. For this role specifically we are looking for a candidate with relevant experience in the field of industrial design and design research combined with the following competences:

• Customer focus: Initiating and defining design research on project level to drive strategy on product level.

• Design acumen: Orchestrate and communicate the product design strategy and design language system over a business product portfolio, developing innovative approaches, with deep understanding of the business context and domain knowledge.

• Business impact: Able to influence, inspire, and engage different stakeholders and customers on product level.

• Best practices and improvements: Support creation/updates and implementation of internal standards and tools, based on deep domain knowledge in product (pre-) development.

• Team development: Proactively identify opportunities for self-development, and assist onboard and mentor junior designers, and advocate in the Philips design community on product design expertise, and best practices.

• Team up: Influence cross-functional collaboration and foster innovation in project and team dynamics.

You're the right fit if:

• Bachelor or Masters degree in Design, Design Research or related discipline, or equivalent professional Design training experience.
• Minimum 8+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Demonstrable design or design research experience from relevant companies, agencies, institutions or own consultancy.
• Experience with complex systems for professional use in a regulated environment with a focus on safety, like in healthcare or equivalent complexity (e.g. automotive or aviation), is preferred.
• Understands and applies broader business and market context, able to synthesize different perspectives and reframe the design challenge.
• Independently drives and executes a design strategy within a project team and across projects, thinking holistically in eco-systems.
• Independently leads design delivery in a program of multiple projects of high complexity with good understanding of budget and time constraints, driving efficiency and holding project level design quality reviews.
• Works together with or consulting business stakeholders and leadership, actively managing relationships and challenging the status quo to drive innovation and step-up for the user.
• Effectively guides internal and external resources on project basis.
• Drives strong user-focused research activities to develop insights for improving the product.
• Defining product design experience requirements (incl. circularity requirements) and envisioned workflows.
• Applies solid human factors and ergonomics understanding into the design work.
• Experience with CAD modelling and tools (e.g. Rhinoceros, SolidWorks), being flexible in adapting towards new tools and way of working where affiliation with AI-powered tools (such as VizCom) is preferred.
• Creating product design specifications including hardware User Interface and Color Materials and Finishing.
• Experience with digital design (software User Interface with tools like Figma) next to hardware is preferred.
• Illustrations skills (with e.g. Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator) and presentation skills.
• Experience with Agile way-of-working, Scrum methodology and SAFe is preferred.
• Fluent in English, both written and verbal.
• Willingness and ability to travel to customers globally.

How we work together

We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week.

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If you’re interested in this role and have many, but not all, of the experiences needed, we encourage you to apply. You may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips. Learn more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion.

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