Senior UX 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 inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Interacting with stakeholders to understand business requirements (verbal and/or written) and effectively translate and apply them to create persuasive User Experience design concepts for the applications or products
• Collaborate with all full stack developers, product owners, and business to design usable, desirable, and feasible experience that delight the users
• Investigating user needs and requirements, and identifying areas where constructive changes can have maximum impact
• Designing world-class healthcare application (web and mobile)
• User interaction design for complex UI intensive applications: analysis of workflow, creation of Lo/Hi-Fi mockups and prototypes, and design consultations
• Closely work with developers to get the pixel perfect design and ensure that there is no error while translating the wireframes and visual design to code
• Conduct design workshops and presentations to transfer UX know-how

• Innovate/prototype new ideas and expert in applying design thinking

   

• Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives (such as, but not limited to, transfer and/or re-assignment to different work locations, change in teams and/or work shifts, policies in regards to flexibility of work benefits and/or work environment, alternative work arrangements, and other decisions that may arise due to the changing business environment). The Company may adopt, vary or rescind these policies and directives in its absolute discretion and without any limitation (implied or otherwise) on its ability to do so
   

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• A degree or post-graduation in design OR equivalent education from a reputed institute
• 7+ years of experience in UX Design with an awesome portfolio
• Expert with popular design tools like: Sketch, Photoshop, Axure, and InVision
• Proven ability to demonstrate examples that increased user satisfaction and delivered business value to the client along with a wow experience for the customers
• Proven skilled and well-read on design thinking practices like user research, focus group feedback, lightweight usability testing, rapid prototyping, etc.
• Proven excellent skills with quick design reviews and recommendations, and able to quickly make concept sketches during stakeholder meetings
• Proven skills to create information architecture, navigation maps, wireframes, and Lo/Hi-Fi prototypes along with design specifications are a must
• Demonstrated ability to drive projects from start to finish with minimal supervision and to juggle multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced, multi-disciplinary environment
• Proven good sense of composition, typography and visual balance
• Proven good communicator with excellent negotiating and presentation skills

Preferred Qualification:

• HTML5 and CSS3 skills, with cross-browser, cross-platform compatibility; familiarity with basic scripting,  functional prototyping; translate a visual design from mockups to front end templates

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.