Senior Product Designer

Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Product Designer to join our highly capable and talented Product Experience Design team on a permanent basis. 

 

We are looking for Senior Product Designers with a passion for designing innovative products in the digital world. Collaboration is key at Optum; you will work closely with the wider Product Design team to shape the end experiences for our healthcare professionals.

 

At Optum, we embrace new ideas and innovative solutions, and we want you to bring your knowledge and expertise to this highly valued Product Design team. You will play a significant part in end-to-end user centred design process for products that are shaping the next evolutionary stage in health technology.

 

If you want to be part of a company where you are valued, what you do genuinely makes a difference and have the opportunity to design user centred technology products, then apply today!

 

Please note whilst this is mainly remote working there will be a requirement to meet on an ad hoc basis in collaboration hubs.

 

What you’ll do 

As a Senior Product Designer, we will be looking for you to understand and appreciate how user research insights inform the design of our clinical products. Involved in every aspect of the PXD process, we want you promote a user centred and evidence based approach to product design. We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer with experience in working within the research and life sciences industry.

 

We’re looking for collaborators who can represent the user at all times with stakeholders whilst working in an agile framework.  As a creative big picture designer, you will help foster user driven design approach!

 

Other key responsibilities and accountabilities will include:

• Develop user journeys, task flows, storyboards, wireframes and prototypes in order to communicate interaction and design ideas, as well as validate assumptions and solutions with users, business and technology.
• Identify the types of UX activities and deliverables required for specific requirements
• Partner with Product Managers & Owners to align UX best practice into agile processes.

 

Who you’ll be 

We need you to be an experienced Product Designer with a passion for focusing design solutions on end user needs. You will be able to demonstrate experience in the discovery and ownership of the end-to-end design solutions in your career.

 

Collaboration is essential; you will have the ability to create relationships with development teams to understand how technical integrations impact end user task flows.

Technical and professional skills we are looking for you to demonstrate include;

• Experience in healthcare or research and life sciences industry.
• Expert Figma user – using a shared Design system to deliver hi fidelity designs and working prototypes
• Confident story teller – the ability to clearly communicate design decisions based on user and other relevant insights
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
• Experience in B2B industries or exposure to designing SAAS based products.

 

If this sounds like something you are interested in, apply today!

 

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone–of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income–deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes — an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.

 

 

 

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