Senior Forward Deployed UX Designer (Asheville, NC or Nashville, TN)

<h3>Job Title</h3>Senior Forward Deployed UX Designer (Asheville, NC or Nashville, TN)<p style="text-align:inherit"></p><h3>Job Description</h3><p><span style="color:#4a4a4a">As a <b>Senior Forward Deployed UX Designer</b> within the Azurion Eye program, you will work shoulder-to-shoulder with clinicians and engineers inside a partner hospital, leading the experience design of next-generation AI-enabled solutions for the Image Guided Therapy Systems (IGT-S) business unit. Embedded on-site in a small forward-deployed pod, you will translate real clinical workflows into adaptive, user intent-based experiences which can scale into Azurion Eye software solutions. At IGT, we are dedicated to supporting patients through innovative, minimally invasive procedures, helping them return to the lives they love.</span></p><p><span style="color:#4a4a4a"> </span></p><p><span style="color:#4a4a4a">What is the Azurion Eye program? </span><span style="color:#494949">It advances Philips’ strategy to embed AI into clinical workflows by combining clinical intelligence, computer vision, predictive analytics, and AI-powered orchestration. The platform helps clinicians make faster, better-informed decisions, improve</span><span style="color:#4a4a4a"> procedural efficiency</span><span style="color:#494949"> </span><span style="color:#4a4a4a">through intuitive tableside control</span><span style="color:#494949">,</span><span style="color:#4a4a4a"> and </span><span style="color:#494949">enhance</span><span style="color:#4a4a4a"> patient safety</span><span style="color:#494949"> with </span><span style="color:#4a4a4a">precision imaging and reduced radiation exposure</span><span style="color:#494949">, including in-room 3D CT-like imaging for stroke care.</span></p><p><span style="color:#494949"> </span></p><p><span style="color:#494949">Embedded within a strategic US clinical partner hospital, you will help accelerate Philips’ AI-powered Cath Lab platform. You will be embedded on-site at a strategic partner hospital as the senior UX lead of a forward-deployed pod, with backbone support from the teams in Best (Netherlands) and Bangalore (India). Reporting to the Design Director IGT Systems, you will be part of a group of world-class designers from the Philips Experience Design community responsible for UX, product, and service experience design across IGT Systems’ product lines. </span></p><p><span style="color:#494949"> </span></p><p><span style="color:#494949"><b>LOCATION REQUIREMENT: </b>This position <b>requires onsite work (5-days per week) at our partner hospital </b>for this business engagement<b> in Asheville, North Carolina or Nashville, Tennessee,</b> with occasional travel to Best and/or Bangalore.</span></p><p><span style="color:#494949"><b> </b></span></p><p><span style="color:#494949"><b>Your role:</b></span></p><p><span style="color:#494949"> </span></p><ul><li><span style="color:#494949">Lead human-centered design efforts by immersing yourself in clinical environments to understand user needs, workflows, and challenges. Through research, observation, and collaboration, you will identify opportunities and translate insights into meaningful experiences that improve patient care and clinician efficiency.</span></li><li><span style="color:#494949">Create and validate user-centered solutions in close partnership with clinicians, hospital IT teams, engineers, and product leaders. Working iteratively from concept through prototype, you will ensure solutions align with business objectives, scale across markets, and reflect Philips’ Design Language System and brand standards.</span></li><li><span style="color:#494949">Help shape the future of intelligent healthcare experiences by defining how users interact with AI-powered systems and services. You will contribute to a collaborative design culture, mentor fellow designers, and guide the development of adaptive, clinically safe, and explainable AI experiences.</span></li></ul><p><span style="color:#494949"> </span></p><p><span style="color:#494949"><b>You are the right fit if:</b></span></p><p><span style="color:#494949"> </span></p><ul><li style="color:#494949 !important"><span style="color:#494949">You’ve acquired 7&#43; years of experience with Bachelor&#39;s OR Minimum 3 years of experience with Master&#39;s in areas such as User Experience (UX) Design, Information Architecture, User Research, Product Design, Usability Testing or equivalent. You will also have relevant professional experience, including leading design within multidisciplinary teams in the field.</span></li><li style="color:#494949 !important"><span style="color:#494949">Your skills include designing complex, AI-enabled solutions in regulated environments, ideally healthcare and the cath lab, with the ability to rapidly translate user insights into functional prototypes. You are comfortable working alongside engineers in Agile, Git-enabled environments and proficient with Figma, Microsoft Office, and AI-assisted design and productivity tools.</span></li><li style="color:#494949 !important"><span style="color:#494949">You have a Bachelor&#39;s or Master&#39;s Degree in (UX) Design, Design Research, Interaction Design, Visual Design, Computer Science Engineering or equivalent.</span></li><li style="color:#494949 !important"><span style="color:#494949">You must be able to successfully perform the following minimum Physical, Cognitive and Environmental job requirements with or without accommodation for this </span><a target="_blank" href="https://www.careers.philips.com/na/en/office/remote-sedentary-work-physical,-cognitive-and-environmental-pce-job-requirements"><span style="color:#0000ff"><u>position</u></span></a>.</li></ul><ul><li><span style="color:#494949">You’re an excellent communicator who works effectively across matrixed organizations, comfortable partnering closely with key stakeholders, product teams and AI Engineers, while applying and evolving a company’s Design System and Brand guidelines. You also have the willingness to work on-site at the partner hospital (5-days per week), with occasional travel to Best/Bangalore.</span></li></ul><p> </p><p><span style="color:#494949"><b>How we work together</b> </span></p><p><span style="color:#494949"> </span></p><p><span style="color:#494949">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. Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities. Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations. </span></p><p><span style="color:#494949"> </span></p><p><span style="color:#494949">This is an office role.</span></p><p><span style="color:#494949"> </span></p><p><span style="color:#494949"><b>About Philips:</b></span></p><p><span style="color:#494949"> </span></p><p><span style="color:#494949">We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won&#39;t stop until everybody, everywhere, has access to the quality of healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help improve the lives of others.</span></p><p><span style="color:#494949"> </span></p><ul><li style="color:#494949 !important"><span style="color:#494949">Learn more about </span><a target="_blank" href="https://www.philips.com/a-w/about.html"><span style="color:#0000ff"><u>our business</u></span></a>.</li><li style="color:#494949 !important"><span style="color:#494949">Discover </span><a target="_blank" href="https://www.philips.com/a-w/about/our-history.html"><span style="color:#0000ff"><u>our rich and exciting history.</u></span></a></li><li style="color:#494949 !important"><span style="color:#494949">Learn more about </span><a target="_blank" href="https://www.philips.com/a-w/about/environmental-social-governance/our-purpose"><span style="color:#0000ff"><u>our purpose.</u></span></a></li><li style="color:#494949 !important"><span style="color:#494949">Learn more about </span><a target="_blank" href="https://www.careers.philips.com/na/en/our-culture-philips-careers"><span style="color:#0000ff"><u>our culture.</u></span></a></li></ul><p><span style="color:#494949"><b> </b></span></p><p><span style="color:#494949"><b>Philips Transparency Details </b> </span></p><p><span style="color:#494949"> </span></p><p><span style="color:#494949">The pay range for this position in Nashville, Tennessee or Asheville, North Carolina is $140,000 to $223,000. </span></p><p><span style="color:#494949"> </span></p><p><span style="color:#494949">The actual base pay offered may vary within the posted ranges depending on multiple factors including job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, geographical location, and internal equity.     </span></p><p><span style="color:#494949"> </span></p><p><span style="color:#494949">In addition, other compensation, such as an annual incentive bonus, sales commission or long-term incentives, may be offered.  Employees are eligible to participate in our comprehensive Philips Total Rewards benefits program, which includes a generous PTO, 401k (up to 7% match), HSA (with company contribution), stock purchase plan, education reimbursement and much more.  Details about our benefits can be found </span><a target="_blank" href="https://www.philipsusbenefits.com/"><span style="color:#0000ff"><u>here</u></span></a><span style="color:#494949">.   </span></p><p><span style="color:#494949"> </span></p><p><span style="color:#494949">At Philips, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top end of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each case.   </span></p><p><span style="color:#494949"> </span></p><p><span style="color:#494949"><b>Additional information:</b></span></p><p><span style="color:#494949"> </span></p><p><span style="color:#494949">US work authorization is a precondition of employment. The company will not consider candidates who require sponsorship for a work-authorized visa. </span></p><p><span style="color:#494949"> </span></p><p>Company relocation benefits <b>will not</b> be provided for this position.  For this position, you must reside in <b>or</b> within commuting distance to <b>Asheville, North Carolina OR</b> <b>Nashville, Tennessee.</b></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:left"><span>This requisition is expected to stay active for 45 days but may close earlier if a successful candidate is selected or business necessity dictates.  Interested candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible to ensure consideration.</span></p><p></p><p><i><span>Philips is an Equal Employment and Opportunity Employer including Disability/Vets and maintains a drug-free workplace.</span></i></p><p></p>