Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.
**This role is based out of our Chennai location. We offer a hybrid work environment which involves employees based out of this location to be in the office 1 day per week at a minimum**
The Opportunity:
Join athenahealth’s quest to make healthcare work the way it should. Our health is incredibly precious, and people in need of health care are often at their most fragile. Yet the function and experience of healthcare continues to fall far behind the innovative services we receive in other more frivolous parts of our lives.
We’re looking for a Senior UI Designer to thoughtfully contribute to our award-winning health record product.
athenahealth is looking for designers who can dive into complex design challenges and create solutions to help transform the healthcare industry. If you’re a talented, innovative, and agile driven UI designer, motivated to make a difference in healthcare, then we want to talk to you. Help us break through all the red tape and transform everyone’s experience of a visit to the doctor, a trip to the emergency room, or a lifetime with a chronic illness.
Position Summary:
We’re looking for a Senior User Interface Designer to thoughtfully contribute to our Collector product, an award-winning electronic health record and physician practice management solution. In this role, you will work closely with a multi-disciplinary agile R&D team to design, prototype, and test product and digital service features with the goal of creating valuable and delightful experiences for our users.
Education, Experience, & Skills Required
· Bachelor’s or master’s degree in any related disciplines
· 2 to 8+ years of professional experience working in digital design
· Strong understanding and hands-on experience of basic front-end languages: Static HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript frameworks (particularly ReactJS)
· Strong work portfolio to be presented and defended during interview
· Experience working in an agile/ scrum development process for the design, development, and delivery of software
· Be open to receiving objective criticism and improving upon it
· Solid capability in creative and detailed design techniques
· Creative ideas with problem solving mindset (for HTML development/ creation)
· Experience using tools such as Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, Sketch, etc
· Strong verbal and written communication skills
· Experience with web and mobile app design and working knowledge of responsive design and grid principles is a must
· Strong typography, layout and visual design skills
· Working knowledge and hands on experience towards the ideation and creation of UI design deliverables: sitemaps, user flows, lo-fi and hi-fi layouts, prototypes
Behaviors & Abilities Required:
· Forge strong relationships and work collaboratively with a multi-disciplinary team. Ability to collaborate closely with developers, copywriters and UX designers.
· Create, improve and use wireframes, prototypes, style guides, user flows, and effectively communicate your detailed design ideas using any of these methods.
· All your design decisions should be based on the overall design roadmap as well as your own thinking and fundamental principles (i.e. color theory, visual weight, etc.)
· Continually keep yourself and your design team updated with the latest changes in industry’s standards
· Adherence/ experience with respect to WCAG guidelines is a plus
· Adapt to ever-changing needs of a dynamic business with flexibility and willingness to jump into any aspect of work to help the team achieve results
Roles and Responsibilities:
· Work along with UX Designer(s) to understand the detailed designs for a specific engagement.
· Partner with UX Designer and Engineering team to arrive at front-end (developed) UI using HTML5/ CSS3/ REACT JS components.
· Ensure the developed UI is scalable for the future, simple to adopt and adds up to efficiency quotient.
· Understand the design system in place, own and create as many React JS components as might be needed (based on the design system in place).
· Conduct UI experiments and iterate/ ensure the developed HTML user interface addresses all of the User needs and efficient to get the task completed quickly.
· Act as the single point of contact for Engineering team to understand the technical constraints, discuss/ update the front-end UI for implementation.
About athenahealth
Here’s our vision: To create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.
What’s unique about our locations?
From an historic, 19th century arsenal to a converted, landmark power plant, all of athenahealth’s offices were carefully chosen to represent our innovative spirit and promote the most positive and productive work environment for our teams. Our 10 offices across the United States and India — plus numerous remote employees — all work to modernize the healthcare experience, together.
Our company culture might be our best feature.
We don't take ourselves too seriously. But our work? That’s another story. athenahealth develops and implements products and services that support US healthcare: It’s our chance to create healthier futures for ourselves, for our family and friends, for everyone.
Our vibrant and talented employees — or athenistas, as we call ourselves — spark the innovation and passion needed to accomplish our goal. We continue to expand our workforce with amazing people who bring diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives at every level, and foster an environment where every athenista feels comfortable bringing their best selves to work.
Our size makes a difference, too: We are small enough that your individual contributions will stand out — but large enough to grow your career with our resources and established business stability.
Giving back is integral to our culture. Our athenaGives platform strives to support food security, expand access to high-quality healthcare for all, and support STEM education to develop providers and technologists who will provide access to high-quality healthcare for all in the future. As part of the evolution of athenahealth’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program, we’ve selected nonprofit partners that align with our purpose and let us foster long-term partnerships for charitable giving, employee volunteerism, insight sharing, collaboration, and cross-team engagement.
What can we do for you?
Along with health and financial benefits, athenistas enjoy perks specific to each location, including commuter support, employee assistance programs, tuition assistance, employee resource groups, and collaborative workspaces — some offices even welcome dogs.
In addition to our traditional benefits and perks, we sponsor events throughout the year, including book clubs, external speakers, and hackathons. And we provide athenistas with a company culture based on learning, the support of an engaged team, and an inclusive environment where all employees are valued.
We also encourage a better work-life balance for athenistas with our flexibility. While we know in-office collaboration is critical to our vision, we recognize that not all work needs to be done within an office environment, full-time. With consistent communication and digital collaboration tools, athenahealth enables employees to find a balance that feels fulfilling and productive for each individual situation.
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What We Do
At athenahealth, it’s our vision to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all. With a thoughtful balance of humanity and technology, we’re able to uncover meaningful healthcare insights that can help create healthier futures for our families, our communities, and ourselves.
athenahealth partners with healthcare organizations across the care continuum to drive clinical and financial results. Our expert teams build modern technology on an open, connected ecosystem, yielding insights that make a difference for our customers and their patients. We offer medical record, revenue cycle, patient engagement, care coordination, and population health services. We combine insights from our network of more than 160,000 providers and approximately 117 million patients with deep industry knowledge and perform administrative work at scale.
Our cloud-based and on-premises solutions deliver measurable financial and clinical results for healthcare organizations of all shapes and sizes. That’s why our top-performing clients are beating industry benchmarks across the board.
For more information, please visit www.athenahealth.com
Why Work With Us
Our vibrant and talented employees spark the innovation and passion needed to accomplish our goals. We continue to expand our workforce with amazing people who bring diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives at every level, and foster an environment where we each feel comfortable bringing their best selves to work.
