Product Designer

Optum; England; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization as a Product Designer, where your innovative ideas will shape the future of healthcare technology. In this remote role, you will collaborate with a talented team to create user-centered design solutions that enhance user experiences for General Practice end users. Your expertise in UX design and tools like Figma will be crucial as you develop prototypes and communicate insights. This is a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact on health equity while growing your skills in a supportive environment. If you're passionate about design and want to drive change, apply today!

Qualifications

• Experience in user-centered design and UX best practices.
• Ability to communicate design decisions effectively.

Responsibilities

• Develop user journeys, wireframes, and prototypes.
• Identify UX activities and deliverables for projects.

Skills

User-Centered Design

UX Research Methodologies

Analytical Skills

Problem-Solving Skills

Collaboration

Tools

Figma

Job description

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 are excited to share that we are looking for an experienced Product Designer to join us on a permanent basis here at Optum, working within our EMIS-X product set.

You will be joining a team with great knowledge and skills, but we are a company that embraces new ideas, innovative solutions, and creating efficiencies to ensure we continue to deliver value through better care via technology innovation. We want you to contribute your knowledge and expertise; we want to hear you.

This is a fantastic time to join us as our business continues to grow. You will play a key role in working with the wider Product Experience Design team to shape the future experience for our General Practice end users.

If you want to be part of a company where you are valued, your work makes a difference, and you have the chance to create user-centered design solutions for our future GP product with the latest healthcare technologies, then apply today!

This Product Designer position is a remote working role, though our team meets monthly for PI sessions.

What You’ll Do

As a Product Designer, you will promote and apply user-centered and evidence-based design best practices to understand the needs and motivations of our end users and define solutions that meet those needs and the business goals.

The Product Experience Design team, working alongside User Researchers, will help you understand pain points, contribute to our Design System, and craft innovative experiences to delight users. Your role will be varied, from facilitating cross-functional ideation sessions to observing usability testing and more.

Other key responsibilities include:

1. Identify UX activities and deliverables appropriate to each project.
2. Develop user journeys, task flows, storyboards, wireframes, and prototypes to communicate ideas and validate solutions with stakeholders and users.

Within this supportive team, you will have opportunities to grow your UX design capabilities across an exciting product portfolio using cutting-edge technology.

Who You’ll Be

We need an experienced Product Designer passionate about innovation and user-centered solutions. You should be inquisitive, collaborative, and able to understand customer and stakeholder needs.

Experience working in fast-paced environments and embracing cross-functional collaboration is essential. You should also have experience engaging with user research methodologies and effectively communicating with engineers, product owners, and other team members to share the UX vision.

Professional skills required include:

1. Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
2. Ability to clearly communicate design decisions based on insights.
3. Expertise in Figma, with a good understanding of working with a Design System to deliver high-fidelity designs and prototypes.

If this sounds like the role for you, we want to hear from you! Apply now.

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and improve the health system for everyone. We are committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion, and to mitigating our environmental impact to deliver equitable care and address health disparities.

UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to characteristics protected by law. We are a drug-free workplace.