Are you passionate about solving complex problems, shaping product strategy, and improving experiences at scale? Do you excel at navigating ambiguity, influencing decisions, and helping product teams deliver meaningful outcomes? If so, let's talk. The Cardinal Health Product Experience (PX) team is seeking a Product Experience Design Lead to drive the quality, direction, and impact of product experiences across a portfolio of products and initiatives. This is an individual contributor role responsible for leading through expertise, influence, and decision-making authority. As the designated Product Experience authority for your assigned business or product portfolio, you will partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Business leaders to shape strategy, guide execution, and ensure experiences deliver measurable customer and business value. Responsibilities Serve as the primary Product Experience leader and trusted advisor for your assigned business or product portfolio. Partner with product, engineering, and business leaders to influence roadmap decisions, priorities, and customer-centered outcomes. Actively participate in planning activities, helping teams identify opportunities, manage risk, and align investments to customer and business needs. Lead discovery efforts to uncover customer needs, workflow challenges, operational constraints, and strategic opportunities. Translate research, data, and business inputs into clear product and experience recommendations. Own and guide research and design decisions within your area of responsibility. Lead cross-functional teams through ambiguity, helping clarify problems before solutions are defined. Ensure experience quality across workstreams and hold a consistent quality bar for products, features, and initiatives. Proactively identify experience gaps, design debt, customer friction, and portfolio-level opportunities. Advocate for users while balancing technical, operational, and business constraints. Provide constructive challenge when product direction introduces experience risk and recommend alternative approaches. Connect experience decisions to measurable customer and business outcomes. Influence stakeholders through strong storytelling, facilitation, workshop leadership, and executive communication. Contribute to shared Product Experience standards, patterns, frameworks, and best practices to improve consistency across Cardinal Health. Support peer growth through collaboration, feedback, and thought leadership without direct people-management responsibilities. Qualifications 8+ years of experience designing digital products, services, or enterprise experiences preferred. Demonstrated success leading complex product initiatives within cross-functional environments. Expertise in human-centered design, product strategy, and customer-centered decision-making. Strong competencies in: Strategic Thinking & Business Acumen Product Thinking & Concept Development Communication & Executive Influence Stakeholder Management Systems Thinking Interaction Design & Information Architecture Decision-Making & Facilitation Proven ability to influence outcomes without formal authority. Experience leading workshops, discovery activities, and strategic planning sessions. Ability to connect user needs, business goals, technical constraints, and operational realities into cohesive solutions. Strong written, visual, and verbal communication skills. Experience measuring and articulating the impact of design decisions and customer experience improvements. Experience designing healthcare, logistics, supply chain, or enterprise software products preferred. Experience working in embedded product teams and strategic consulting engagements preferred. Familiarity with design systems, accessibility standards, and governance frameworks preferred. Experience supporting AI-enabled products, services, or workflows preferred. Advanced proficiency with journey mapping, service design, research synthesis, and facilitation preferred. Anticipated salary range: $106,700 - $152,400 Bonus eligible: Yes Benefits: Cardinal Health offers a wide variety of benefits and programs to support health and well-being. Medical, dental and vision coverage Paid time off plan Health savings account (HSA) 401k savings plan Access to wages before pay day with myFlexPay Flexible spending accounts (FSAs) Short- and long-term disability coverage Work-Life resources Paid parental leave Healthy lifestyle programs Application window anticipated to close: 01/04/2027 *if interested in opportunity, please submit application as soon as possible. The salary range listed is an estimate. Pay at Cardinal Health is determined by multiple factors including, but not limited to, a candidate’s geographical location, relevant education, experience and skills and an evaluation of internal pay equity. Cardinal Health supports an inclusive workplace that values diversity of thought, experience and background. We celebrate the power of our differences to create better solutions for our customers by ensuring employees can be their authentic selves each day. Cardinal Health is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, veteran status, marital status, creed, status with regard to public assistance, genetic status or any other status protected by federal, state or local law. To read and review this privacy notice click here Headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, Cardinal Health, Inc. (NYSE: CAH) is a distributor of pharmaceuticals, a global manufacturer and distributor of medical and laboratory products, and a provider of performance and data solutions for healthcare facilities. We are a crucial link between the clinical and operational sides of healthcare, delivering end‑to‑end solutions and data‑driving insights that advance healthcare and improve lives every day. With deep partnerships, diverse perspectives and innovative digital solutions, we build connections across the continuum of care. With more than 50 years of experience, we seize the opportunity to address healthcare's most complicated challenges — now, and in the future. View Cardinal Health on YouTube If your personal information has changed and needs edited, please contact your recruiter for assistance. 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