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Description -The Senior UX Researcher is responsible for leading and delivering hands-on user research and user testing activities to enable excellent user experiences (UXs) for Elekta’s hardware and software products. This includes running usability testing for regulated medical devices and contributing to usability documentation, as part of the regulatory submission and approval process.
Reporting to the Manager, UX Research, this role will collaborate closely with other UX Researchers and other UX&D teams - UX Strategy & Design, Industrial Design, UX Development - as well as stakeholders in Product Management and Engineering.
Responsibilities –
- Leads and delivers hands-on UX research and usability testing activities to ensure an excellent user experience for Elekta hardware and software products.
- Defines usability strategy to meet program objectives and usability compliance. Works with Regulatory Affairs to align usability strategy with regulatory submission strategies.
- Leads the planning, timing, scoping, and execution of UX research activities to meet product and business needs and release timelines.
- Independently plans, conducts and documents contextual studies, interviews, surveys, task and use error analyses, user reviews, heuristic evaluations, and usability testing. Plans, facilitates and reports study results and workshop outcomes. Balances the right activities with the available resources, to meet business objectives.
- Networks and collaborates with different disciplines, including delivery leads, system engineers / systems architects, product managers and clinical experts, managing positive relationships with them.
- Acts as the subject matter expert on usability engineering within the product release team, attending meetings and reviewing and approving documents.
- Anticipates risks early and escalates issues when necessary. Adapts to challenging situations and changing priorities.
- Looks for improving ways of working in UX research and usability processes.
- Actively communicates the business value of UX activities in all interactions.
- Manages subcontracted agencies for usability testing, including participant recruitment. May create RfQs and review agency proposals.
- Participates in Agile ceremonies and PI-planning. Clearly communicates their plans, dependencies to other disciplines, and identified risks. Proficient in planning their capacity and what they can commit to in the next PI.
- Reviews the deliverables of other UX professionals. Provides feedback and coaches more junior team members.
Skills Required
- Experience in UX research and usability testing
- Familiarity with regulatory submission processes for medical devices
- Ability to manage and collaborate with stakeholders across disciplines
- Proficient in planning and executing contextual studies
Elekta Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Elekta and has not been reviewed or approved by Elekta.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with employer match is a prominent benefit, with vesting noted as part of the plan.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — PTO and paid holidays are included, with PTO accruing from the start and rollover allowed within limits.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, vision, life and disability coverage are included, complemented by an Employee Assistance Program.
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What We Do
At Elekta, our outcome-driven and cost-efficient solutions provide lasting clinical difference and are developed through sustainable environmental, social and governance practices. We’ve been working openly and proactively with clinicians and our partners for almost half a century to advance precision radiation therapy and meet continuously evolving patient needs—no matter where they are in the world. To us, it's personal, and our global team of 4,700 employees combine passion, science, and imagination to profoundly change cancer care. We don’t just build technology, we build hope. Elekta is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, with offices in 120 countries and listed on Nasdaq Stockholm.
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