Senior User Interface Design Engineer

Humana; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 80,000 - 134,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision benefits

401(k) retirement plan

Paid time off

Disability & Life Insurance

Job summary

Humana is seeking a Senior UI Design Engineer to craft intuitive digital experiences across clinical tools and care-facing platforms. You will balance strategic thinking with hands-on delivery from discovery to pixel-perfect implementation, while embracing AI-fluent design tooling and standards.

You’ll work with product, engineering and clinical stakeholders to solve complex healthcare workflows, reduce cognitive load for care teams, and improve patient clarity and outcomes.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years of hands-on product design experience delivering data-dense digital products.
• Bachelor's degree in HCI/Design or equivalent practical experience.
• Expert-level Figma skills and ability to create interactive prototypes.
• Strong balance of strategy and hands-on execution within a design system.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end design for product verticals from discovery to pixel-perfect delivery.
• Contribute to design systems and scalable patterns across teams.
• Present design rationale to stakeholders and align with engineers and product.
• Build high-fidelity prototypes to validate flows and AI-assisted design tooling.
• Lead qualitative user research, usability testing, and rapid iteration.
• Champion WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility and health-literacy principles.
• Collaborate on privacy, patient trust, and regulatory requirements.

Skills

UI/UX design

Figma

Prototyping

Design systems

Communication

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in HCI/Design or related field

Tools

Figma

Design system tooling

Job description

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We are 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 within your product area — 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 supporting design across all of CenterWell IT, reporting to the Director, Technology Solutions while aligning on design system and overall standards with the Lead UI Designer. You'll work closely with product, engineering, and clinical stakeholders to solve complex healthcare workflows that reduce cognitive load for care teams and provide clarity for patient care.

Key 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

Required Qualifications

Use your skills to make an impact

• 5+ years of hands-on product design experience (UI/UX) delivering digital products, web applications, or complex enterprise platforms from concept to launch, with a strong portfolio of complex interfaces demonstrating visual hierarchy and clean execution for data-dense applications.


• 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.


• Proven ability to manage competing priorities, navigate ambiguous requirements, and maintain high design quality and output in a fast-paced, iterative environment.


• Outstanding communication skills: able to articulate design decisions, present to cross-functional stakeholders, and discuss technical constraints and tradeoffs directly with engineers.


• Demonstrated success using design to improve business and customer outcomes, such as patient satisfaction, engagement, retention, or operational efficiency.


• AI Fluency: Understanding of how AI-driven features behave in-product (latency handling, confidence scoring, human-in-the-loop workflows) and genuine interest in AI-assisted design tools.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing within clinical, healthcare, or health-tech environments, or in other regulated/high-stakes domains.


• Experience designing interfaces for complex data pipelines, dynamic real-time data, or decision-support tools.

Addtional Information

The candidate must live close to one of our designated IT locations: NYC, NY; Louisville, KY; Tampa, FL; Fort Lauderdale, FL; Dallas/Frisco, TX; Boston, MA; Washington, D.C: Atlanta, GA, Nashville, TN, Chicago, IL, or Charlotte, NC.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Pay Range

The compensation range below reflects a good faith estimate of starting base pay for full time (40 hours per week) employment at the time of posting. The pay range may be higher or lower based on geographic location and individual pay will vary based on demonstrated job related skills, knowledge, experience, education, certifications, etc.

$97,900 - $133,500 per year

This job is eligible for a bonus incentive plan. This incentive opportunity is based upon company and/or individual performance.

Description Of Benefits

• Humana, Inc. and its affiliated subsidiaries (collectively, “Humana”) offers competitive benefits that support whole-person well-being. Associate benefits are designed to encourage personal wellness and smart healthcare decisions for you and your family while also knowing your life extends outside of work. Among our benefits, Humana provides medical, dental and vision benefits, 401(k) retirement savings plan, time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, paid parental and caregiver leave), short-term and long-term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.

About Us

About Humana: Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is a leading U.S. healthcare company. Through our Humana insurance services and our CenterWell healthcare services, we make it easier for the millions of people we serve to achieve their best health – delivering the care and service they need, when they need it. These efforts are leading to a better quality of life for people with Medicare and Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large. Learn more about what we offer atHumana.comand atCenterWell.com.

Equal Opportunity Employer

It is the policy of Humana not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status. It is also the policy of Humana to take affirmative action, in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and VEVRAA, to employ and to advance in employment individuals with disability or protected veteran status, and to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. This policy shall apply to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation and selection for training, including apprenticeship, at all levels of employment.