Job Description
About the role
We are looking for an experienced and people-focused UX Lead to drive the user experience vision across our software platform, Unite, and lead and develop a team of UX designers.
In this role, you will combine strategic thinking, hands-on leadership, and cross-functional collaboration to create intuitive, user-centered experiences that deliver real business value. You will play a key role in shaping product direction, elevating design quality, and fostering a strong UX culture within the organization.
You will join a cross-functional team of Product Managers and UX designers, reporting to the Product Director of Unite and being part of the Portfolio, Product and Strategy department.
Key responsibilities
Lead, mentor, and develop a team of UX professionals.
Drive the UX strategy and vision for the Unite platform, ensuring alignment with product strategy, user needs, and business objectives.
Create structure and scalable ways of working for the UX team and ensure effective distribution and prioritization of tasks across the team (including facilitation of design reviews, workshops, and feedback sessions, etc.)
Act as a strategic partner to Product Management and Engineering, ensuring user needs are represented in product decisions and that the end-to-end user experience remains cohesive across Unite platform.
Translate user insights, business goals, and product roadmaps into actionable design solutions and prioritized UX work plans, ensuring effective resource allocation and delivery across the UX team
Advocate for user-centered design principles across the organization and
actively use data (Databricks, Fullstory) to drive data-informed design decisions.Foster structured cross-stream UX collaboration and alignment across TRIOS, Unite, DX, and other teams and initiatives to ensure intuitive user experience and efficient delivery
Ensure high-quality, consistent, and user-validated UX outcomes across the product portfolio through aligned user journeys, interfaces, and design systems.
Contribute hands-on to UX activities when needed, including wireframes, prototypes, user flows, and research
Own recruitment, onboarding, and resource allocation for the UX team.
What are we looking for?
Proven experience in a senior UX leadership role
Experience managing and developing UX teams
Experience creating team structures, workflows, and operational processes
Strong portfolio demonstrating both strategic and hands-on UX leadership, grounded in user-centered design methods and design thinking.
Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
Experience working in agile product environments
Experience with design systems at scale
Ability to balance business objectives, technical constraints, and user needs
Collaborative mindset with a passion for building high-performing teams
Qualifications
6+ years of UX design experience, with at least 2 years in a leadership or mentorship role.
Proven experience designing for complex software and/or hardware interfaces—ideally within healthcare, medtech, or other regulated industries.
Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive alignment across product and engineering teams.
We offer
A vibrant and international environment with social, diverse, and highly skilled and cooperative colleagues - we are more than 40 nationalities in our DK based office
An attractive healthcare package to keep you fit and well.
Breakfast every day, and delicious and healthy lunch cooked by our private chefs.
We provide a great social work environment with many optional activities and social clubs, ranging from wine & beer, board games, running to bicycle clubs.
Attractive offices and R&D lab spaces in downtown Copenhagen close to Kgs. Nytorv, Nyhavn, and the Copenhagen Canals.
Purpose: Help improve dental patients on a global scale.
Get in touch now!
Please do not hesitate to apply for this exciting opportunity at one of Denmark’s most successful and fastest-growing high-tech companies, as applications will be processed continuously. We encourage all relevant applicants to apply.
Applicants will be reviewed continuously, however we plan on conducting interviews in August.
We are committed to celebrating human diversity, and we trust that the best way to reach outstanding business results is by welcoming diverse people into our community.
Join 3Shape and make a difference and help us change the future of dentistry!
About us
3Shape started with a simple idea - to make 3D scanning better. First, we applied it to the hearing industry, then we succeeded in dentistry. Twenty years later, 3Shape has 2,000+ employees globally. With the help of dental professionals and amazing colleagues we’re creating award-winning scanning and CAD/CAM solutions to change dentistry together! Together, we contribute to a better world. Experience the everyday #lifeat3Shape across the globe on LinkedIn.