Alcon

ED, Workforce & User Experience

Alcon$204K — $379K *
Healthcare
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a related field; advanced degree preferred.
  • 12+ years in service design, user experience, or enterprise transformation.
  • Experience with end-to-end redesign of complex workflows and user experiences.
  • Ability to integrate multiple perspectives into scalable designs.
  • Proven team leadership and external partner management skills.
  • Strong communication and influence skills for executive-level interactions.

Responsibilities

  • Define and scale future-work design methodologies across enterprise initiatives.
  • Lead end-to-end experience design for various workflows and technologies.
  • Embed responsible AI and governance into design processes.
  • Direct research and usability validation activities.
  • Translate future-work concepts into workforce and organizational implications.
  • Align workforce strategies with business adoption and implementation plans.
  • Establish design governance frameworks and quality standards.
  • Champion accessibility, privacy, and compliance in design programs.
  • Mentor design leaders and build reusable design assets.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health, life, and disability benefits.
  • 401(k) plan with company contributions and matching.
  • Generous time off package including vacations and holidays.
  • Performance-based cash incentive opportunity.
  • Annual equity awards eligibility for certain roles.
Full Job Description
Job Description Summary
#LI-Hybrid

This position will be located at the East Hanover, NJ site and will not have the ability to be located remotely. This position will require travel as defined by the business (domestic and/or international).

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:
  • Define and scale future-work design methodologies across enterprise transformation initiatives.
  • Lead end-to-end experience design spanning workflows, services, technology, and associate interactions.
  • Ensure responsible artificial intelligence, governance, and human accountability are embedded in future-state designs.
  • Direct research, service blueprinting, journey mapping, prototyping, and usability validation activities.
  • Translate future-work concepts into workforce, skills, capacity, and organizational implications.
  • Partner across functions to align workforce strategies with adoption and implementation plans.
  • Establish design governance frameworks, quality standards, and validation criteria from discovery through deployment.
  • Champion accessibility, privacy, compliance, and responsible design across all transformation programs.
  • Develop and mentor design leaders, user experience professionals, and external design partners.
  • Build reusable design assets, frameworks, and systems that improve scalability, adoption, and user outcomes.


Essential Requirements:
  • Education: Bachelor's degree in a related field required. Advanced degree preferred
  • 12+ years of experience in service design, experience design, user experience, human-centered design, workforce transformation, organization design, digital product design, or enterprise transformation.
  • Demonstrated experience leading the end-to-end redesign of complex workflows and experiences, including user research, journey mapping, service blueprints, workflow prototyping, usability validation, and translation into workforce and organization implications.
  • Proven ability to integrate associate, customer/patient, business process, data, technology, and human/AI interaction perspectives into coherent and scalable future-work designs.
  • Experience building and leading teams and managing external partners
  • Executive-level communication, design facilitation, influence without authority, and the ability to use research and evidence to challenge assumptions and guide senior stakeholders through ambiguous transformation decisions.


Novartis Compensation Summary:

The salary for this position is expected to range between $204,400 and $379,600 per year.

The final salary offered is determined based on factors like, but not limited to, relevant skills and experience, and upon joining Novartis will be reviewed periodically. Novartis may change the published salary range based on company and market factors.

Your compensation will include a performance-based cash incentive and, depending on the level of the role, eligibility to be considered for annual equity awards.

US-based eligible employees will receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes health, life and disability benefits, a 401(k) with company contribution and match, and a variety of other benefits. In addition, employees are eligible for a generous time off package including vacation, personal days, holidays and other leaves.

Salary Range
$204,400.00 - $379,600.00

Skills Desired

About Alcon

Alcon is a global medical company specializing in eye care products and services. The company's products include surgical equipment, contact lenses, and eye drops. Alcon was founded in 1945 and is headquartered in Baar, Switzerland. The company operates in over 70 countries and has over 20,000 employees. In 2019, Alcon became an independent publicly traded company after being spun off from Novartis.
Learn more about Alcon
Size
24,389 employees
Market Cap
$33.3 billion
Industry
Founded
1945
NASDAQ

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