Senior Product Designer

At Elanco (NYSE: ELAN) – it all starts with animals!

As a global leader in animal health, we are dedicated to innovation and delivering products and services to prevent and treat disease in farm animals and pets.

We’re driven by our vision of ‘Food and Companionship Enriching Life’ and our approach to sustainability – the Elanco Healthy Purpose™ – to advance the health of animals, people, the planet and our enterprise.

At Elanco, we pride ourselves on fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment.

We believe that diversity is the driving force behind innovation, creativity, and overall business success.

Here, you’ll be part of a company that values and champions new ways of thinking, work with dynamic individuals, and acquire new skills and experiences that will propel your career to new heights.

Making animals’ lives better makes life better – join our team today!

We are seeking a Senior Product Designer who is deeply passionate about understanding user needs and driving impactful solutions through continuous product discovery, as this role will play a pivotal role in shaping exceptional user experiences for our products.  This role is central to our empowered cross-functional product teams, collaborating closely with Product Managers and Engineers to shape products that customers love and that achieve critical business objectives.

 

Your Responsibilities:


* Product Discovery: Collaborate with a Product Manager and Engineering Tech Lead to drive the end-to-end product discovery process, from identifying core problems to validating effective solutions, ensuring that solutions are valuable, usable, feasible, and viable. 



* Champion User Empathy: Cultivate a deep understanding of users' needs, goals, motivations, and frustrations by actively "walking a mile in their shoes".

Utilize various qualitative research methods, such as user interviews, contextual inquiry, and journey mapping, to uncover profound insights. 



* Define and Frame Problems: Synthesize complex research findings into clear, actionable problem statements (Points of View), ensuring the team focuses on solving the right challenges based on validated user insights. 



* Prototype for Learning and Validation: Leverage prototyping as a primary tool for product discovery.

Create prototypes of varying fidelity—from low-resolution paper prototypes to high-fidelity interactive models—to quickly test ideas, gain empathy, explore possibilities, and resolve design conflicts.  



* Conduct User Testing: Integrate user testing into team workflows to constantly validate and refine ideas with real users and customers.

Test to determine if users could use the product and, crucially, if they would choose to use it, iterating designs based on feedback. 



* Communicate Insights Effectively: Translate complex research findings and design decisions into clear, actionable insights for diverse audiences, including senior leadership ...