As a Senior Design Lead with Zoetis Precision Animal Health, you'll drive the execution of our digital user experience in partnership with product owners. You'll be responsible for improving our design systems, bringing our brands to life digitally, performing and analyzing research to deeply understand the rapidly evolving, modern consumer, and designing the future intersection of genetics, precision healthcare, and consumer technology through our user experience. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, developers, and other designers to ensure products are intuitive, accessible, and delightful to use.

This role reports directly to the Senior Product Lead, and works in close partnership with Product Managers, Data, and Engineering.

Position Responsibilities

Drive the strategic vision and execution of the end-to-end UX design process from initial concept through final implementation. This includes overseeing user research, competitive analysis, wireframing, conceptual design, user flow definition, information architecture, interactive prototyping, user testing, UX writing, and visual design.

Lead cross-functional collaboration with stakeholders across Product, Marketing, Customer Experience & Support, and other departments to align business objectives with user needs and translate them into impactful design solutions.

Develop and drive adherence to a robust user research, design, and testing framework, ensuring continuous insight gathering, rigorous usability testing, and comprehensive design documentation (including user personas, journey maps, and design specifications) to streamline collaboration and handoff to product development teams.

Mentor and lead a team of UX designers, providing strategic guidance, constructive feedback and fostering a culture of excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Establish and maintain expertise in industry trends and best practices, integrating cutting-edge methodologies into the design process. Champion and embed user-centered design principles at every stage of product development, ensuring a superior user experience.

Organizational Relationships

This position requires communication directly with product, marketing, customer experience, lab operations, engineering, R&D and other cross-functional stakeholders.

Education and Experience

8+ years of experience in UX Design, with a strong portfolio showcasing your work

Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Design, Human Factors, Human-Computer Interaction, Psychology, or similar

Proven experience leading user research and design projects, and managing teams with an emphasis on cross-collaboration

Strong understanding of user-centered design principles and methodologies, consumer behavior/psychology, user research, and iterative design and testing techniques

Comfortable presenting user flows from the customer/consumer perspective to stakeholders, and constructively defending design choices based on user research and best practices

Proven ability to lead user research and testing with customers to generate unbiased feedback and incorporate into design iterations.

Proficient designing for (or able to learn quickly) the following digital experiences: web, mobile web, native app, complex online technology platforms

A deep understanding of and empathy for users, advocating for their needs throughout the design process.

Commitment to creating inclusive and accessible designs for diverse user groups.

Technical Skills Requirements

Strong communication skills and a collaborative nature

Proficiency in Figma or other design tools like Sketch, Adobe XD

Basic knowledge of front-end development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) preferred

Proficiency with primary and secondary UX research techniques

Experience with Confluence, Jira for development project management

The following base pay range reflects the anticipated base pay for this position if a selected candidate were to
be located in (Colorado). Base pay may vary based on location and other factors.

Base Pay Range: $80,000-100,000

The following base pay range reflects the anticipated base pay for this position if a selected candidate were to be located in (California), (NJ Remote), (NY Remote), or (Washington). Base pay may vary based on location and
other factors.

Base Pay Range: $85,000-115,000

[This position is eligible for short-term incentive compensation.] [The position is also eligible for long-term incentive.]

We offer a competitive and comprehensive benefits package, which includes healthcare, dental coverage, and

retirement savings benefits along with paid holidays, vacation and disability insurance.

About ZoetisAt Zoetis_, our purpose is to nurture the world and humankind by advancing care for animals. As a Fortune 500 company and the world leader in animal health, we discover, develop, manufacture and commercialize vaccines, medicines, diagnostics and other technologies for companion animals and livestock. We know our people drive our success. Our award-winning culture, built around our Core Beliefs, focuses on our colleagues' careers, connection and support. We offer competitive healthcare and retirement savings benefits, along with an array of benefits, policies and programs to support employee well-being in every sense, from health and financial wellness to family and lifestyle resources._

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Connected to our purpose and Core Beliefs, at Zoetis, we lead with inclusion. Our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) focus helps create an environment where each colleague can thrive. Our commitment to DE&I begins with our leadership team of diverse backgrounds, experiences and ethnicities, and it is demonstrated in our support of our colleagues and the animal health industry. We have nine colleague resources groups whose members spread awareness, foster inclusivity and make a positive impact on our business and communities.

Our commitment to advancing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion has earned us recognitions as a 2024 Catalyst Award recipient and a Top 50 Company for Workplace Fairness by Fair360 (formerly DiversityInc). Zoetis has also been named a Best Place to Work for LGBTQ+ Equality, a Best Company for Working Parents, a Top Company for Executive Women, among many others. Learn more here_._

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