Manager, UI​/UX

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At Baxter, we believe every person-regardless of who they are or where they are from-deserves a chance to live a healthy life. It was our founding belief in 1931 and continues to be our guiding principle. We are redefining healthcare delivery to make a greater impact today, tomorrow, and beyond.

Our Baxter colleagues are united by our Mission to Save and Sustain Lives. Together, our community is driven by a culture of courage, trust, and collaboration. Every individual is empowered to take ownership and make a meaningful impact. We strive for efficient and effective operations, and we hold each other accountable for delivering exceptional results.

Here, you will find more than just a job-you will find purpose and pride.

As part of Baxter's Human-Centered Product Design Organization, the Manager, UI/UX leads the design of safe, intuitive, and compliant user experiences for medical devices and digital interfaces. This role ensures designs meet clinical needs, regulatory expectations, human factors engineering standards, and usability requirements. The UI/UX Manager collaborates closely with R&D, Human Factors, Quality, Regulatory, Clinical, and Engineering teams to deliver products that improve patient outcomes and clinician efficiency.

• Set UI/UX strategy for digital and physical medical solutions and lead a multidisciplinary design team.
• Establish regulatory aligned design standards and champion user centered design across product teams.
• Oversee creation of wireframes, prototypes, and production ready assets, ensuring designs meet safety, usability, and clinical workflow needs.
• Collaborate with engineering and human factors to ensure feasibility, risk mitigation, and alignment with usability testing requirements.
• Lead user research with clinicians, patients, and stakeholders; translate insights into design improvements.
• Partner cross functionally to define user needs, communicate design decisions, and support usability risk assessments.
• Ensure high quality, consistent UI/UX deliverables and manage timelines through development, V&V, and postmarket improvement cycles.

• Bachelor's degree in UX, HCI, Human Factors, Cognitive Psychology, Design, or related field.
• 7+ years of UI/UX experience, including 2-4 years in a leadership role.
• Experience designing for healthcare, medical devices, or regulated industries.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating complex, high stakes UX work.
• Familiarity with design controls, documentation, traceability, and regulatory expectations (IEC 62366, FDA HF/Usability).
• Expertise with design tools (Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, Miro).
• Strong understanding of usability testing and human factors principles.
• Preferred: experience with connected medical ecosystems, clinical workflows, Agile/Lean UX, and supporting 510(k)/MDR submissions.

Baxter is committed to supporting the needs for flexibility in the workplace. We do so through our flexible workplace policy which includes a required minimum number of days a week onsite. This policy provides the benefits of connecting and collaborating in person in support of our Mission. The flexible workplace policy is subject to local laws and legal requirements. At its discretion, Baxter may decide to adjust, suspend, or discontinue as business needs change.

We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. At Baxter, we are committed to equitable pay for all employees, and we strive to be more transparent with our pay practices. The estimated base salary for this position is $120,000 - $165,000 annually. The estimated range is meant to reflect an anticipated salary range for the position.

We may pay more or less than of the anticipated range based upon market data and other factors, all of which are subject to change. Individual pay is based on upon location, skills and expertise, experience, and other relevant factors. This position may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses. For questions about this, our pay philosophy, and available benefits, please speak to the recruiter if you decide to apply and are selected for an…