Design Lead - Lilly Direct

JOB DESCRIPTION

At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We’re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world.

Eli Lilly is a global healthcare leader that unites caring with discovery to create medicines that make life better for people around the world. We’re leveraging cutting-edge technologies and innovative platforms to develop next-generation therapeutic ecosystems, connected devices, data, and analytics to transform patient experiences and improve treatment outcomes.

As a member of Design at Lilly , you'll be at the forefront of Eli Lilly’s commitment to crafting intuitive, accessible, and impactful digital experiences. We work across all functions of the organization, applying design thinking to solve complex challenges and create high-quality digital solutions that improve the lives of patients who use our medications.

About The Role

We are seeking a Lead Product Designer to play a key role in shaping the evolution of our LillyDirect platform. You’ll bring design crafting and design thinking, contributing hands-on design work to help scale LillyDirect’s service while elevating the user experience. Most importantly, you’ll collaborate closely with product owners, engineers, researchers and other designers to redefine the healthcare experiences for millions of people around the world.

What You’ll Do

Lead the design process from discovery to delivery; you'll comfortably sketch, prototype, test, refine and ship impact product experiences.

Contribute design work directly, ensuring consistent delivery of intuitive, inclusive and well-crafted digital experiences for patients and healthcare providers.

Provide mentorship, guidance, and objective critique to elevate and uphold the design quality bar across LillyDirect concepts, prototypes and the shipped product.

Collaborate effectively with cross-functional partners in product, engineering, brand, legal and regulatory to deliver a cohesive, human-centered experience across the platform.

Articulate design decisions and rationale effectively and persuasively to a wide-range of non-technical and executive-level stakeholders to ensure alignment across programs.

Understand when and to proceed and when to pivot ideas, based on rapidly evolving circumstances and emerging insights from users or internal subject-matter experts.

What You Bring

Exceptional portfolio of digital design work that demonstrates excellence in interaction design, visual design and information architecture.

Familiarity with Figma, modern user testing tools and experience working within (or contributing to) complex design systems.

Outstanding verbal and written communication skills, possessing the ability to make complex ideas simple and consumable for a broad range of collaborators.

A learning and growth mindset that contributes positively to a culture of critique, collaboration and honest reflection.

Basic Qualifications / Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in design, such as Digital Design, Interaction Design, Visual Communication Design or a similar field.
• 5 - 10 years’ experience in visual experience or digital product design with demonstrable success shipping digital products and experiences.
• Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to be employed in the United States; Lilly does not anticipate providing sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H-1B or TN status) for this employment position.

Lilly is dedicated to helping individuals with disabilities to actively engage in the workforce, ensuring equal opportunities when vying for positions. If you require accommodation to submit a resume for a position at Lilly, please complete the accommodation request form (

Lilly is proud to be an EEO Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, gender expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, ancestry, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.

Our employee resource groups (ERGs) offer strong support networks for their members and are open to all employees. Our current groups include : Africa, Middle East, Central Asia Network, Black Employees at Lilly, Chinese Culture Network, Japanese International Leadership Network (JILN), Lilly India Network, Organization of Latinx at Lilly (OLA), PRIDE (LGBTQ+ Allies), Veterans Leadership Network (VLN), Women’s Initiative for Leading at Lilly (WILL), enAble (for people with disabilities). Learn more about all of our groups.

Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location.  The anticipated wage for this position is

$135,000 - $213,400

Full-time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance). In addition, Lilly offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees, including eligibility to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k); pension; vacation benefits; eligibility for medical, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; flexible benefits (e.g., healthcare and / or dependent day care flexible spending accounts); life insurance and death benefits; certain time off and leave of absence benefits; and well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities).Lilly reserves the right to amend, modify, or terminate its compensation and benefit programs in its sole discretion and Lilly’s compensation practices and guidelines will apply regarding the details of any promotion or transfer of Lilly employees.

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