Senior Usability Specialist

Are you an experienced Senior Usability Specialist looking for more autonomy in your role, with the chance to make a significant impact on Ambu’s product development?

**Do you have a passion for user testing medical devices?**

We offer a dynamic and challenging position where you will help ensure our ongoing commitment to delivering high-quality products. As part of our fast-paced innovation culture, you'll see a direct connection between your contributions and Ambu's growth, with a tradition of rapidly completing projects. This role can be possessed from either our HQ in Ballerup, Denmark or our R&D Site in Augsburg, Germany. We have amazing colleagues in both sites

**A job with global impact - saving lives and improving patient care.**

As a Senior Usability Specialist, you’ll play a pivotal role in ensuring our life cycle products are safe, effective, and meet user needs. You will plan and execute usability and design validation activities worldwide, working closely with stakeholders to save lives and improve patient outcomes.

Key responsibilities:

- Prepare task analysis as contribution to the risk management documentation
- Support risk management by contributing to product risk evaluation, identifying hazard-related use scenarios within a cross-functional team
- Lead usability and design validation projects within assigned teams
- Plan and execute formative activities related to design development with external partners
- Plan and conduct design validation and summative usability studies
- Author and contribute to the Usability Engineering File, Design Validation, and documentation for regulatory submissions.

**Your background**

Skills and experiences can be earned in many different ways, and we understand that the best fit for the role cannot be prescribed on paper. You are however likely to succeed in this position if you have a pragmatic approach to balancing requirements and addressing challenges - all the while remaining autonomous and keeping your eyes on the ball.

Furthermore, you bring:

- Experience in risk management within usability
- An educational background within healthcare, health sciences, (medical) engineering or similar - what truly interests us is your drive and out-of-box thinking
- Experience from the Life Science industry within Human Factors Engineering and its standards
- A technical interest with a patient-centric mindset
- Experience in data collection and test methodology
- An honest communication form, a collaborative mindset and enthusiasm for the field
- Strong communication skills, with professional fluency in English, both written and spoken

On a personal note, we hope you’re proactive, have a pragmatic approach to your tasks. Based on the role a strategic mindset and excellent stakeholder management skills are the key to success.

**The Team**

You will join a growing, global team of 18 passionate professionals, counting 13 experts in Design Validation and Usability, supported by a Coordinator and Medical Advisors - with one common goal: improving patient care and saving lives.

Collaboration and knowledge sharing are central to our team, giving you ample opportunities to contribute your expertise and engage in discussions about usability and design validation options.

**When to apply**

About Ambu

Ambu has been bringing the solutions of the future to life since 1937. Today, millions of patients and healthcare professionals worldwide depend on the efficiency, safety and performance of our single-use endoscopy, anaesthesia, and patient monitoring solutions. We continuously look to the future with a commitment to deliver innovative quality products that have a positive impact on patient care and the work of healthcare professionals. Headquartered near Copenhagen in Denmark, Ambu employs approximately 4,500 people in Europe, North America and the Asia Pacific.