Senior Designer, Collaborative and Visual Design Services

Company Description

About AbbVie

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at  . Follow @abbvie on  LinkedIn, Facebook ,  Instagram ,  X and  YouTube.

Job Description

The Senior Designer, Collaborative and Visual Design Services is a multi-disciplined creative and expert technologist who serves as the lead hybrid designer and developer, delivering end-to-end digital experiences for Regulatory Affairs and the RA Advanced Capabilities team. The Senior Designer designs, builds, and oversees a portfolio of SharePoint sites, applications, and digital tools grounded in user-centered design principles. This individual partners with stakeholders and cross-functional teams to understand business needs, define design strategies, and deliver measurable outcomes. In addition to UX/UI design, the role provides a broad range of creative services, including graphic design, visual storytelling, content development, branding, and video. The Senior Designer also supports Regulatory Affairs in collaboration technologies, digital transformation, and emerging tools, while continuously exploring new platforms and capabilities to meet evolving business and technology needs. 

Responsibilities:

• Lead and co-create the design, development, and maintenance of SharePoint sites, portals, PowerApps, and other digital tools
• Apply UX/UI, accessibility, and AbbVie brand standards across digital experiences and communications.
• Lead intake, discovery, and requirements gathering for assigned design and development requests; scope work and manage priorities across the portfolio.
• Drive the end-to-end design process, including user research, information architecture, wireframing, prototyping, production, and deployment.
• Deliver high-quality creative work across UX/UI, graphic design, branding, visual storytelling, and video.
• Partner cross-functionally with stakeholders, developers, and analysts to deliver scalable, compliant, user-centered digital solutions while actively engaging with AbbVie’s Design Center of Excellence resources and community.
• Present concepts, research, and recommendations clearly to stakeholders and leadership; support adoption through training and enablement.
• Monitor emerging tools, platforms, and trends to recommend and pilot capabilities that advance digital maturity and innovation.
• May hire, onboard, and manage personnel, vendors, and external resources as needed.
• This role may supervise personnel and third-party resources.
• This position will work a hyrid work schedule (3 days in office) from the Lake County, IL headquarters.  

Significant Work Activities:  Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hr day) is required

Qualifications

• Required Education : Bachelor’s degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Digital Media, Communications, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Preferred Education: Bachelor’s or Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, Certifications a plus

• Required Experience:
• 8+ years’ experience in hybrid design, UX/UI, digital product, creative technology, or development role, or an equivalent combination of related experience. Two of the required years in pharma, healthcare, or a regulated industry preferred.
• Expert-level UX/UI skills, including user research, information architecture, wireframing, high-fidelity prototyping, design systems, and the ability to navigate the end-to-end design process.
• Strong visual design skills, including typography, layout, color, hierarchy, branding, and visual storytelling.
• Hands-on experience designing and building digital experiences in SharePoint, PowerApps, or similar platforms.
• Proficiency with Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud, and digital tools that support modern design workflows.
• Strong communication, presentation, and project management skills, with experience working in complex, matrixed environments.
• Portfolio required, demonstrating strength across UX/UI, digital experiences, development, and creative production.
• Use and knowledge of AI tools to enhance design workflows, ideation, content creation, and efficiency.

• Preferred Experience:
• Experience with Microsoft 365 including SharePoint, Teams, and Power Platform.
• Experience with content management systems, databases, front-end technologies, or conversational/AI-enabled experience design.
• Experience with design process frameworks such as Double Diamond or Design Thinking.
• Photography and/or Video production experience including filming, post-production editing, motion graphics and animation.
• Familiar with code – HTML, CSS, JS, JSON, React, or front-end development principles.

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future. ​

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​

• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs. ​

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of  any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law. ​

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community.  Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled. 

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