Senior UI Design Engineer — Health Tech & AI

Humana; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 118,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

401(k) retirement plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Humana’s CenterWell IT is seeking a Senior User Interface Design Engineer to craft intuitive, high-trust digital experiences across our clinical tools and care-facing platforms. You’ll balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution from discovery to pixel-perfect delivery, while bringing an AI-fluent mindset as design tooling evolves.

You’ll join a lean, high-impact design team of two, collaborate with product, engineering, and clinical stakeholders to solve complex healthcare workflows that

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on product design experience (UI/UX) delivering digital products, web applications, or complex enterprise platforms from concept to launch.
• Bachelor's degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Design, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Expert-level Figma skills (auto-layout, tokens, component variables, interactive prototyping).
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution — bringing informed perspective and problem-solving to your product area while operating within established design system and standards.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end design for assigned product verticals — from discovery through pixel-perfect delivery — including workflow design, information architecture, and interface design for data-dense, human-in-the-loop clinical workflows.
• Support and contribute to design systems, patterns, and scalable design standards.
• Present design recommendations and rationale to stakeholders, incorporating feedback and building alignment across teams.
• Build interactive, high-fidelity prototypes to demonstrate complex interactions and validate user flows. Contribute to evolving how AI-assisted tools are incorporated into the design process as internal tooling access expands.
• Plan and execute qualitative user research, usability testing, and feedback sessions with users and stakeholders to validate design decisions and iterate rapidly.
• Accessibility & Health Literacy: Champion WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility standards and plain-language design principles, ensuring interfaces are inclusive across varying levels of digital and health literacy.
• Healthcare & Compliance Focus: Design with deep sensitivity to privacy, patient trust, and regulatory requirements.

Skills

UI/UX design

Prototyping

Design systems

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in HCI or related field

Tools

Figma

Job description

Humana’s CenterWell IT is seeking a Senior User Interface Design Engineer to craft intuitive, high-trust digital experiences across our clinical tools and care-facing platforms. You’ll balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution from discovery to pixel-perfect delivery, while bringing an AI-fluent mindset as design tooling evolves.

You’ll join a lean, high-impact design team of two, collaborate with product, engineering, and clinical stakeholders to solve complex healthcare workflows that