Lead User Experience Designer

What Lead User Experience Design contributes to Cardinal Health

The Cardinal Health Pharma eCommerce team is looking for a Lead User Experience Designer will lead the design of digital products that take our digital products to the future and beyond. We are looking for a passionate designer and team player who will be part of a massive digital transformation effort.

For this role you will be helping to solve problems across multiple platforms in order to align new digital experiences.

The Lead UX Designer will be responsible for imagining future-proof usable and desirable digital experiences for mobile apps and responsive web and have the capability to clearly communicate ideas at a broad level to bring these experiences to life from beginning to end and anywhere in-between.

The Lead UX Designer will design future-proof, user-friendly digital experiences for mobile apps and responsive web, and effectively communicate ideas to bring these experiences to life from start to finish.

The Lead UX Designer collaborates with partners to uncover and define user needs, build out workflows, construct the information architecture, create layouts, define taxonomy, build interactions, or create any relevant UX artifact as needed.

Responsibilities:

The End-to-End Lead UX Designer will have help to advance the vision for our best in class e-commerce ordering system. In this role you will uncover and define user needs, build out workflows, construct the information architecture, create layouts, define taxonomy, build interactions, or create any relevant UX artifact as needed. The UX designer will design detailed creative assets for both written and visual content roughly 25-35% of the time. The User Experience Designer will work directly with the product team in their respective cross-functional work teams to prioritize and specify features to deliver great new experiences. This role may be required to work with an offshore team daily at early morning hours or late evening hours whatever works best for you.

In this role you will create, defended (professionally) and delivered many or all of the following and more:

• Very detailed low and high-fidelity wireframes, sitemaps, taxonomies, user flows, journey maps, and annotated screen interaction specifications
• Design Mobile and Tablet application UX and design.
• Maintain governance over mobile and Tablet designs.
• Visual designs and mock-ups (secondary to your Rockstar UX skills)

Qualifications

• 7-12 years of experience, preferred
• Bachelor or higher degree in digital design, graphic design, HCI, UX, computer information, or other relevant technological or design disciplines preferred

What is expected of you and others at this level

• Know your stuff and can lead end to end experiences.
• Have a portfolio of your work that demonstrates your capabilities and direct responsibilities as well as your deep understanding of UX best practices and standards
• Are deeply passionate about the user and their experiences and consider your wheelhouse to be interaction design, but might dabble in UI, UX research, and/or writing.
• Understanding on how to problem solve and design with robust databases in mind.
• Like to work on multiple projects at once.
• Evangelize to development lead teams the benefits and efficiencies of UX
• Have created, defended (professionally) and delivered many or all of the following and more:
  • Very detailed low and high-fidelity wireframes, sitemaps, taxonomies, user flows, journey maps, and annotated screen interaction specifications
  • Visual designs and mock-ups (secondary to your Rockstar UX skills)
• Understand the nuances between mobile platforms and responsive and adaptive design.
• Over communicate but dont overshare.
• Able to embrace change and thrive in an ever-evolving team environment.
• Have a working knowledge of how design works when coded with regard to any interface or device to enable your creative execution of desirable and usable user interactions.
• Have led or participated in many whiteboard sessions with your teams in digital user experience design including mobile apps and responsive web design.
• Have worked in an agile or iterative work setting and enjoy co-locating with your entire team.
• Have worked in virtual teams.
• Love learning new things and challenging yourself.
• Dont mind working early or late hours with offshore teams, as needed.
• Dont mind traveling at times to get to know your customers (10%)
• Have excellent Storytelling skills- Having created and presented your work to upper management, stakeholders and other business partners in a consumable and enjoyable manner.
• Can help evangelize human-centric design methodologies and the purpose across the division.
• Feel comfortable with complex data centric experiences
• Know what accessibility is and why we should all care
• Know what Atomic Design is and how it relates to your work
• Know Figma

• Have at least 3 professional references

Bonus points for:

• UX research experience
• Experience building Lottie files
• Designing for accessibility training
• Design-thinking badge or coaching certification
• Masters degree in UX
• FED development capability

Anticipated salary range:$103,500 - $155,295

Bonus eligible:Yes

Benefits:Cardinal Health offers a wide variety of benefits and programs to support health and well-being.

• Medical, dental and vision coverage
• Paid time off plan
• Health savings account (HSA)
• 401k savings plan
• Access to wages before pay day with myFlexPay
• Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
• Short- and long-term disability coverage
• Work-Life resources
• Paid parental leave
• Healthy lifestyle programs

Application window anticipated to close:08/07/2025 *if interested in opportunity, please submit application as soon as possible.

The salary range listed is an estimate. Pay at Cardinal Health is determined by multiple factors including, but not limited to, a candidates geographical location, relevant education, experience and skills and an evaluation of internal pay equity.

Candidates who are back-to-work, people with disabilities, without a college degree, and Veterans are encouraged to apply.

Cardinal Health supports an inclusive workplace that values diversity of thought, experience and background. We celebrate the power of our differences to create better solutions for our customers by ensuring employees can be their authentic selves each day. Cardinal Health is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, veteran status, marital status, creed, status with regard to public assistance, genetic status or any other status protected by federal, state or local law.