DesignOps Specialist

Cardinal Health is seeking a dedicated DesignOps Specialist to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of our UX Team. In this role, you'll be focused on optimizing design workflows, managing tools, and fostering a collaborative environment to maximize the business value of our technologies and elevate the CX.

What User Experience Design contributes to Cardinal Health

User Experience at Cardinal Health creates intuitive digital interfaces that meet business objectives, empower users and customers to accomplish their intended tasks with ease, and deliver a high-level of customer satisfaction when engaging with the company online.

Responsibilities

As a DesignOps Specialist, you will:

• Manage Design Tools & Infrastructure: Specialize in the administration, optimization, and support of design tools, design system platforms, and digital asset management. Provide technical setup, training, and troubleshooting.

• Drive Process Improvement: Identify inefficiencies within specific design workflows (e.g., design critique processes, feedback loops, design system contributions) and implement practical solutions.

• Enhance Documentation & Knowledge Management: Build and maintain centralized repositories for design guidelines, templates, and best practices, ensuring discoverability and usability.

• Support Design Community & Culture: Organize workshops, training sessions, onboarding programs, and other events to foster a positive design culture and facilitate knowledge sharing within the team.

• Provide General Operational Support: Offer day-to-day operational support to individual designers and smaller teams, helping them navigate design processes and tool utilization.

What's expected of you at this level

• Apply comprehensive knowledge and a thorough understanding of DesignOps concepts and principles to perform varied tasks and complex projects of large scope.

• Contribute to the development of design policies and procedures that ensure consistency and innovation.

• Develop technical and operational solutions to a wide range of difficult problems, ensuring they're innovative and consistent with organizational objectives.

• Complete work independently, receiving general guidance on new projects, with work reviewed for meeting objectives.

Qualifications

• 4-8 years of experience in Design Operations, UX Operations, Design Program Management, or a related field, preferred.

• Bachelor's degree preferred.

• Proven ability to manage and optimize design tools and workflows.

• Strong organizational skills with a focus on documentation and process improvement.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a knack for supporting creative teams.

Anticipated salary range: $79,700 - $119,490

Bonus eligible: No

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: 8/30/2025 *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.

Candidates who are back-to-work, people with disabilities, without a college degree, and Veterans are encouraged to apply.

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/Affirmative Action 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.