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Sr User Experience Designer - Telecommute 🔥


Combine two of the fastest-growing fields on the planet with a culture of performance, collaboration and opportunity and this is what you get. Leading edge technology in an industry that's improving the lives of millions. Here, innovation isn't about another gadget, it's about making health care data available wherever and whenever people need it, safely and reliably. There's no room for error. Join us and start doing your life's best work.(sm)

Optum Clinical Manager (OCM) is a strategic, enterprise clinical platform across UHC and Optum that leverages shared technology and services. As an integrated, cloud native, scalable technology platform, OCM delivers seamless end-to-end clinical solutions that are configurable, resilient and quick to build while reducing overall enterprise technology costs. It supports a multi-payer, multi-tenant model, enabling care management, utilization management and digital capabilities. In this role as Senior Product Designer, your responsibilities range from the design of features and enhancements as part of incremental product improvement, to completely reimagining our products as part of our ‘Next Generation' product strategy and vision projects.

You will collaborate closely with your product and dev partners in solving problems for our users using human centered design principles. We're combining Design and UX with leading-edge technologies to re-invent healthcare! #DICE

You'll enjoy the flexibility to telecommute* from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Hands-on foundational research, interaction design, visual design, prototyping and customer research – taking problems from concept to implementation, quickly and iteratively
  • Partner with system design team to ensure reusability and contribute to the system design ecosystem to improve and evolve design patterns
  • Manage and translate end user research, facilitate structured brainstorming and ideation techniques, oversee rapid prototyping
  • Translate business strategies into user experiences, which may include persona development, journey maps, workflow planning, wireframes, and low fidelity sketches
  • Deeply understand the needs, pain points, behaviors, emotions and journeys of users in the context of the digital and clinical experience
  • Identify and coach other team members on user experience design
  • Conduct quantitative/qualitative customer research and experimentation to deliver the best experiences
  • Ability to successfully communicate and collaborate across a variety of stakeholders, including researchers, product managers, engineers as well as executives and customers


You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

  • 5+ years of UX/UI Product Design experience
  • Visual design / UI Design expertise
  • Ability to share a portfolio of work demonstrating your human centered approach and design thinking skills
  • Lead user tests

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience working with design systems
  • Experience designing data-heavy software within a healthcare experience
  • Experience with one or more of the following Figma, Sketch + Axure libraries
  • Experience working in large, highly-matrixed corporation
  • Service design and creative workshop experience
  • Understanding of agile / lean + development framework
  • Human-centered / design thinking training
  • Self-starter who’s comfortable with ambiguity and change
  • Lead research studies


To protect the health and safety of our workforce, patients and communities we serve, UnitedHealth Group and its affiliate companies require all employees to disclose COVID-19 vaccination status prior to beginning employment. In addition, some roles and locations require full COVID-19 vaccination, including boosters, as an essential job function. UnitedHealth Group adheres to all federal, state and local COVID-19 vaccination regulations as well as all client COVID-19 vaccination requirements and will obtain the necessary information from candidates prior to employment to ensure compliance. Candidates must be able to perform all essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation. Failure to meet the vaccination requirement may result in rescission of an employment offer or termination of employment

Technology Careers with Optum . Information and technology have amazing power to transform the health care industry and improve people's lives. This is where it's happening. This is where you'll help solve the problems that have never been solved. We're freeing information so it can be used safely and securely wherever it's needed. We're creating the very best ideas that can most easily be put into action to help our clients improve the quality of care and lower costs for millions. This is where the best and the brightest work together to make positive change a reality. This is the place to do your life's best work.(sm)

Colorado, Connecticut or Nevada Residents Only: The salary range for Colorado residents is $82,100 to $146,900. The salary range for Connecticut / Nevada residents is $90,500 to $161,600. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, UnitedHealth Group offers benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with UnitedHealth Group, you’ll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.

*All Telecommuters will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.


Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

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