Senior Visual Designer

Position Overview

The Experience Design Team at Fujifilm Sonosite is looking for an exceptional Senior Visual Designer to envision, define, and design the future of visual medicine. The Senior Visual Designer is responsible for leading design projects and works within the design team and across all disciplines to deliver powerful, visually compelling solutions. Designers who fit at Fujifilm Sonosite have deep design chops, are passionate about delivering innovative solutions to medical professionals, and can demonstrate a track record collaborating across engineering, clinical and product management disciplines.

Company Overview

At FUJIFILM Sonosite, we reinvent how healthcare is delivered with point-of-care ultrasound technology. As the leader in bedside ultrasound systems, our innovations save lives—from premature babies in NICUs to trauma patients in emergency rooms.

We’re looking for purpose-driven team members ready to build technology that impacts real-world scenarios, including natural disasters and even war zones. By joining FUJIFILM Sonosite, you’ll be part of a team that thrives on collaboration, out-of-the-box thinking, and a passion for life-saving innovations. Let’s make a difference together.

Our headquarters in Bothell, Washington, blends riverside charm with urban amenities, quality schools, and an ever-evolving downtown—all part of the vibrant Seattle metro area.

Fujifilm is globally headquartered in Tokyo with over 70,000 employees across four key business segments of healthcare, electronics, business innovation, and imaging. We are guided and united by our Group Purpose of “giving our world more smiles.” Visit: https://www.fujifilm.com/us/en/about/region/careers

Job Description

Essential Job Functions:

• Concept Development: Lead the creation and development of innovative product concepts and design solutions that meet user needs, business goals, and technical feasibility.
• Design Strategy and Vision: Define and communicate design vision and strategy, ensuring alignment with company goals and market trends.
• User-Centered Design: Conduct user research, gather insights, and apply design principles to create discoverable, functional, and desirable products.
• Prototyping and Testing: Develop prototypes and mockups that support usability testing, and iterate designs based on feedback to refine product functionality and experience.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with human factors, software development, product management, and other stakeholders to ensure innovative and successful product launches.
• Technical Documentation: Prepare detailed design specifications, Figma files, renderings, presentations, and documentation necessary for design communication and engineering transfer.
• Design system: Create and manage the Fujifilm Sonosite design system to ensure full communication with software and consistency across product lines.
• Mentorship and Leadership: Mentor junior designers and provide guidance on design best practices, tools, and processes to build a strong design team.
• Project Management: Establish and manage design timelines, resources, and deliverables, ensuring projects are completed on time, meet user needs, business needs and quality standards.

Knowledge and Experience:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in industrial design, graphic design, or visual design
• Professional Work Experience: 8-10 years of design experience, with a track record of leading design projects and delivering successful products.
• Portfolio of Completed Projects: A robust portfolio showcasing a range of product designs from concept through to production.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Proven experience working effectively with software, clinical engineering, marketing, and other stakeholders in a product development environment.
• Project Leadership: Experience managing or leading design projects, mentoring junior designers, and driving the design process from start to finish.
• Problem-Solving and Innovation: Demonstrated ability to creatively solve complex design challenges and innovate within constraints such as budget, materials, and regulatory requirements.
• Stakeholder Interaction: Experience presenting designs and concepts to stakeholders, or management and incorporating feedback professionally.
• Design Principles and Methodologies: Deep understanding of design fundamentals, including form, function, usability, ergonomics, and aesthetics.
• Computer-Aided Design Tools: Proficiency with Figma or similar.
• Prototyping Techniques: Familiarity with digital prototyping methods.
• Product Development Lifecycle: Understanding of the full product development process from ideation to production, including collaboration with engineering, marketing, and manufacturing teams.
• Visual Communication: Strong skills in sketching, rendering, and creating visual presentations to communicate design concepts effectively.

Skills and Abilities:

• Strong understanding of the Design Thinking process.
• Experience designing solutions in the medical device field.
• A natural collaborator, you embrace all facets of a holistic design process.
• Never one to back down from a challenge, you love producing creative solutions to problems.
• You are an intuitive, passionate, and highly motivated innovator known for your fresh perspective.
• Ability to lift 25lbs with or without accommodations.

Salary and Benefits:

• $120,000/yr. - $145,000/yr. depending on experience + variable target bonus (Compensation will vary based on skills, experience and location; it is not typical to be hired at or above the top of the salary range).  
• Insurance:
• Medical, Dental & Vision
• Life & Company paid Disability
• Retirement Plan (401k):
• 4% automatic Company contribution
• Fujifilm matches 50 cents for every dollar you contribute, up to 6% of your salary
• Paid Time Off:
• You can accrue up to 120 hours of PTO in your first year of employment
• PTO increases based on years of service
• Employee Choice Holidays:
• 32 hours additional paid time off, based on date of hire in the calendar year
• Paid Holidays:
• Eight (8) paid holidays per year

FUJIFILM Sonosite offers a fantastic compensation package, including benefits, and a 401k program.  Visit us today to learn more about our exciting technologies and how you can make a difference.  To apply and obtain further details regarding key responsibilities and experience requirements, check out our careers page at www.Sonosite.com/about/careers.

 

 

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