Manager, UX Development

Are you a current Elekta employee?  Please click here to apply through our internal career site Find Jobs - Elekta.Want to join a team with a mission to improve and save lives?  We continually look for motivated and skilled individuals who are interested in supporting our customers – healthcare professionals who use our products to help patients and their communities.We currently have the following opportunity available - please contact us for more details!We don’t just build technology. We build hope for everyone dealing with Cancer.At Elekta, we believe every individual deserves access to the best cancer care. That’s why we’re committed to developing innovative solutions that make precision radiation therapy and radiosurgery more effective, efficient, and accessible. If you're passionate about making a meaningful impact, we invite you to bring your expertise and energy to our team.What You’ll Do At Elekta:The Manager, UX Development role leads Elekta’s UX Development team globally and oversees front-end development activities for Elekta’s software products, ensuring that they are effective, efficient, satisfying and safe to use. This encompasses building and supporting the Elekta Design System via the UI Monorepo and the Elekta Component Library (ECL), along with support of other product technologies, to ensure products are consistent and joined up.Responsibilities:Line-manage a team of individual UX Developers, responsible for hiring, performance management, career development, and motivating the team towards excellent performanceUnderstand Elekta’s Products and their contexts, to be able to prioritise the resourcing of their team to the most important products/ projects, creating the greatest possible UX/ product quality, development efficiency and measurable business impactDevelop and maintain a network of Elekta stakeholders; in particular, leaders in the Product and Engineering divisions.  Understand the needs of these stakeholders, agree with them the scope of work, and ensure they are kept up to date with progressSupport the Head of UX&D in evangelising the benefits of User-Centred Design across the Elekta business, including collating and communicating a set of compelling case studies where UCD has made a measurable business impactCollaborate closely with the rest of the UX&D MT, ensuring that the UX&D team speaks and acts as one team, shares resources, and seeks to improve ways of workingAccountable for the quality of work coming from their team, ensuring it is excellent, consistent and delivered on time and to promisesMaintain a good understanding of the other UX&D domains (UX Research, Industrial Design, UX Strategy & Design), to be able to ‘sell’ the wider team’s skills and contributionsMentor and coach colleagues, within and outside the UX&D team, on best practice in UX/UI/Front-end DevelopmentOversee front-end development and support activities on the most important software Products/Product LinesLead the development of, and act as owner/ authority for, Elekta’s Design System and the Elekta Component Library (ECL).  Evangelise the benefits of the Design System/ Component Library across Elekta and ensure its widest possible adoption.  Work closely with members of the UX Strategy & Design team to maintain the Design System.Oversee the development and adoption of the UI Monorepo and its tools, to ensure for fast product development and delivery (including Continuous Integration/ Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), pipelines, testing, Internationalisation, Accessibility, etc.)Measure the impact of the Design System, Component Library and UI Monorepo on the Elekta Engineering organisation – e.g. in making development of new products faster/ more efficient/ better qualityLead a process of collecting and integrating user feedback on the Design System, Component Library and UI Monorepo to ensure continued improvements for its users, the product developersEvangelise UX/ User-Centred Design to the Elekta Engineering organisation.  Define and support relevant awareness and training activitiesMature the front-end engineering teams at Elekta through best UX/ UI design practiceDefine best practice for the development, testing, security, and delivery of front-end softwareKeep up with the state-of-the-art in the regulated medical devices and front-end technologies and experiences.What You'll Bring:Master’s degree in computer science, software engineering, human-computer interaction, or a similar relevant fieldComprehensive knowledge base acquired from 8+ years’ experience as a (Senior/ Lead) UX Developer in a domain of complex products and services2+ years’ experience in managing a UX/ Front-end Development team, including all people management responsibilitiesSignificant experience in the development of front-end software and/or business web applications or mobile applications.Significant experience in developing and managing a component library or design system for an organization.An understanding and experience of working within regulatory constraints, ideally in the field of medical devicesA track record of taking responsibility for the delivery of large, complex projects, end-to-endA track record of case studies (personal or from a managed team) where user-centered design and development has had a significant and measurable business impactGood understanding of Agile principles and Agile product development practices (Scrum, Kanban, etc.)A track record of influential leadership, management of senior stakeholders and driving cross-functional agreement on user-centred design.What you’ll get:In this role, you will work for a higher purpose; hope for everyone dealing with cancer, and for everyone regardless of where in the world, to have access to the best cancer care. In addition to this, Elekta offers a range of benefits.Work Pattern (you are required to work from the Crawley HQ 4 days a week with 1-day WFH)Up to 25 paid vacation days (plus bank holidays)Holiday Purchase SchemePrivate Medical InsuranceAttractive Employer Pension Contribution PackageCycle to work schemeLife AssuranceOnsite subsidized restaurant, offering budget-friendly diningLove electric (Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme)Hiring processWe are looking forward to hearing from you! Apply by submitting your application and résumé in English, via the “Apply” button.For questions, please contact the Talent Acquisition Partner responsible, We do not accept applications through e-mail.We are an equal opportunity employerWe are an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.SummaryLocation: CrawleyType: Full time