Design Researcher

McKesson is an impact-driven, Fortune 10 company that touches virtually every aspect of healthcare. We are known for delivering insights, products, and services that make quality care more accessible and affordable. Here, we focus on the health, happiness, and well-being of you and those we serve – we care.

What you do at McKesson matters. We foster a culture where you can grow, make an impact, and are empowered to bring new ideas. Together, we thrive as we shape the future of health for patients, our communities, and our people. If you want to be part of tomorrow’s health today, we want to hear from you.

Backed by the strength of a Fortune 9 company (McKesson Corporation), Ontada® develops technologies used by the oncology community to deliver evidence-based, personalized care, as well as insights used by biopharma companies to accelerate drug development and support the entire treatment journey. We help Oncology providers make data-driven decisions, so patients have the best treatment options. Together with our partners, we are fighting against cancer and changing the lives of cancer patients.

How You can Make an Impact:

Our Design Researcher with experience of interaction design will be the instrumental part of the team, focused on User Research, Strategy formation, cross-functional collaboration, and working together with Head of User Experience design on setting and executing research strategy, and leading the teams by example. You will get to bring your creativity to a team that is fast paced, continuously evolving, and vital to our mission of providing the best cancer care for patients. You will get to make your mark here at Ontada by:

• Leading the User Research efforts on the major Ontada Digital Product initiatives.
• Setting Strategy for User Research across all Ontada products, planning and executing.
• Working with a team of designers, product managers, and R&D colleagues.

In this role you will:

• Create and orchestrate the user research strategy.
• Conduct generative research.
• Facilitate ideation sessions and usability sessions.
• Educate designers and product team members on conducting research.
• Champion analytic tools within our products, analyze, and report.
• Work with the wider UX Research teams within McKesson
• Design within a simple, user-centered design process
• Have design skills to transform ideas into creative, simple, and responsive designs under technology and time constraints

What Will Help You Excel?

• Experience working in healthcare, or other equally complicated domain
• Experience using Figma, Jira, other enterprise product management tools
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with many deadlines

Minimum Requirement

Degree or equivalent and typically requires 4+ years of relevant experience.

Education

Bachelor's degree in human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science, Statistics, Psychology, Anthropology, related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Critical Skills

• 4 years of experience in an applied research setting, or similar.
• Experience with research design utilizing various methods (e.g., usability studies, contextual inquiry, surveys, etc.).
• Relevant product research experience, either in an end-to-end, usability, or generative setting.
• Proficiency in interaction design and understanding of the design system

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree in human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science, Psychology, Anthropology, or related field.
• 3 years of experience conducting UX research on products and working with executive leadership (e.g., Director level and above).
• 3 years of experience managing projects, and working in a large, matrixed organization.
• Strong understanding of the strengths and shortcomings of different research methods, including when and how to apply them during the product development process.
• Experience in a variety of product spaces, applied research and/or academic settings.
• Proficiency in communicating user research findings with cross-functional partners to drive impact.
• Proficiency in interaction design and understanding of the design system

We are proud to offer a competitive compensation package at McKesson as part of our Total Rewards. This is determined by several factors, including performance, experience and skills, equity, regular job market evaluations, and geographical markets. In addition to base pay, other compensation, such as an annual bonus or long-term incentive opportunities may be offered. For more information regarding benefits at McKesson, please click here.

Our Base Pay Range for this position

$108,400 - $180,600

McKesson is an Equal Opportunity Employer

McKesson provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees and is committed to a diverse and inclusive environment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age or genetic information. For additional information on McKesson’s full Equal Employment Opportunity policies, visit our Equal Employment Opportunity page.

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