Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Working at Abbott
At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your family, be your true self, and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:
- Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
- Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
- An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution
- Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
- A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
- A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.
The Opportunity
Join us at Abbott Diabetes Care (ADC) in our mission to help individuals with diabetes lead active, fulfilling lives. We’re focused on helping people manage their health more effectively and comfortably, with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions.
As Senior Designer, Brand Experience, you will help shape how Abbott Diabetes Care’s brand comes to life across our connected ecosystem spanning biowearable devices, mobile, digital platforms, product packaging, and service touchpoints used by millions globally.
You will operate at the intersection of brand, product, and service design, translating brand strategy into meaningful visual and experiential expression across our product ecosystem. This is a senior role that combines strategic thinking with hands-on creative leadership. You will shape design direction, evolve our living brand system, and partner closely with marketing, product, engineering, and design teams to deliver cohesive experiences that make complex health information clear, human, and actionable.
This role is remote, with regular travel to Alameda, CA for team collaboration, workshops, and leadership alignment.
What you’ll do
Lead, build and evolve our brand system
- Translate brand strategy into compelling visual and verbal expression across our product and service experiences.
- Define and evolve brand experience for our products, ensuring visual and verbal expression is cohesive across our digital and physical surfaces.
- Develop and extend ADC’s living brand system, including iconography, illustration, motion, photography, patterns, packaging, design tokens, and component libraries.
- Create scalable guidelines, frameworks, and design resources that enable consistent, high-quality brand expression across products and teams.
- Ensure the brand system remains flexible, expressive, and adaptable as our product ecosystem grows.
Shape Brand Experience across all product touchpoints
- Design and guide creative execution across key surfaces, including product UI, packaging, websites, and service journeys, ensuring the brand is expressed cohesively across both physical and digital touchpoints.
- Partner closely with product design, engineering, marketing, and customer experience teams to ensure brand and product experiences feel unified and intentional.
Elevate craft and influence
- Lead high-impact design initiatives from concept through execution, ensuring strong visual craft and thoughtful storytelling.
- Provide creative leadership through hands-on design, critique, and collaboration, raising the bar for visual quality and brand expression.
- Work with internal teams and external partners to deliver work that aligns with user needs, brand strategy, and business goals
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communication, Product Design, or a related field
- 6+ years of professional experience in graphic design, brand design, product design, or creative direction roles
Preferred Qualifications
- Portfolio demonstrating strong visual and verbal thinking, bold creative ideas, and measurable impact across product and brand experiences
- Experience shaping brand expression for digital products
- Expertise translating brand systems into product experiences, ensuring consistency across end-to-end experience
- Strong visual design craft, including typography, motion, layout, and interaction design
- Experience developing or evolving design systems, component libraries, and brand toolkits
- Experience designing packaging or physical product touchpoints
- Fluency in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite
- Exceptional communication and storytelling skills, able to align cross-functional teams around creative vision
- Ability to synthesize insights from patients, providers, and internal teams to inform design decisions
- Strategic thinking and business awareness, connecting creative work to product and organizational goals
- Experience in healthcare, health technology, or regulated industries is a strong plus
Apply Now
Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: www.abbottbenefits.com
Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.
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The base pay for this position is
$113,300.00 – $226,700.00
In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.
JOB FAMILY:
Product Development
DIVISION:
ADC Diabetes Care
LOCATION:
United States of America : Remote
ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:
WORK SHIFT:
Standard
TRAVEL:
Yes, 20 % of the Time
MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:
No
SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:
Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day)
Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.
EEO is the Law link - English: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_English.pdf
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