(Senior) Manager - Usability & Design

Company Description

Founded in Munich, Germany in 1989, Brainlab develops, manufactures and markets software-driven medical technology, enabling access to improved, more efficient, less-invasive patient treatments. Our key to success is our creative, talented and hard-working team, which consists of around 2400 dedicated and inspiring individuals in 25 locations worldwide. To succeed in reaching our targets, we are seeking committed colleagues who can stand behind our core values curious, authentic and useful.

Job Description

We are looking for a highly experienced (Senior) Manager Usability & Design to lead and inspire a cross-functional team of UX Designers, Usability Engineers and Frontend Developers for our Brainlab products. This is a pivotal leadership role at the interface between Brand, Design & Usability and R&D, ensuring that our software products not only look exceptional but deliver best-in-class product usability and performance across all platforms — web, mobile and beyond.

You will play a key role in driving the user experience vision, steering future relaunches of our responsive software and aligning design efforts with technical and brand strategies.

Your Key Responsibilities Include:

Leadership & Strategy

• Lead, mentor and develop a multidisciplinary team of UX Designers, Usability Engineers and Frontend Developers
• Act as the functional bridge between brand design, user experience design and R&D, ensuring cohesive product development aligned with corporate goals.
• Define and execute the global usability and design strategy across all touchpoints our emerging product platforms in alignment with regulatory frameworks
• Drive the user experience vision and design excellence, ensuring consistency, innovation and accessibility

Operational & Functional Excellence

• Partner with Product Management and Engineering to define and deliver compelling user-centric solutions
• Oversee and guide future relaunches of our software platforms, including UX/UI modernization and platform unification
• Establish and evolve design systems, usability best practices and cross-team processes

Innovation & Continuous Improvement

• Stay ahead of industry trends and emerging technologies to continuously improve our product experiences
• Ensure the team delivers against key KPIs such as user satisfaction, brand quality standards, task success, time to market and product adoption

Qualifications

• University degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Design, Computer Science or related field
• Proven experience (8+ years) in leading UX/design and frontend teams in agile environments; ideally within the MedTech industry
• Demonstrated success in managing complex software relaunches, including responsive and cross-platform applications
• Strong background in user-centered design, usability engineering and modern frontend development frameworks
• Experience working at the intersection of brand strategy and technical implementation
• Expertise in tools such as Figma, Adobe XD, Jira, Confluence, HTML/CSS/JS, and component-based frameworks (React, Vue, etc.)
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• A passion for building progressive and functional user experiences that translate business strategy and shape brand identity

Additional Information

• A mutually-supportive, international team
• Meaningful work with a lasting impact on medical technology
• 30 vacation days, plus December 24th and December 31st
• Flexible working hours as well as hybrid work model within Germany
• Bike leasing via cooperation partner "BikeLeasing"
• Parking garage and safe underground bike storage
• Award-winning subsidized company restaurant and in-house cafes
• Variety-rich fitness program in our ultra-modern 360m2 company gym
• Regular after work, team, and company events
• Comprehensive training and continuing education opportunities

Ready to apply? We look forward to receiving your online application including your first available start date and desired salary. 

Contact person: Géraldine Ferrer