User Experience Designer

UnitedHealth Group is seeking an experienced User Experience designer for their growing Technology Engineering User Experience Center of Excellence (COE) team. The successful candidate will serve as an expert in User Interface design and have a history of effectively delivering interaction design and user research.

Job Responsibilities:

• Create compelling user interface designs for web, mobile and desktop software products
• Contribute to the development of user interface design patterns and other leading-edge tools and reusable assets that aid in efficient and effective user experience designs 
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional product development teams on UI prototype design and development 
• Conduct remote and in-person user research as needed, including summative usability testing, formative usability testing, contextual inquiry, surveys, and interviews
• Set priorities and ensure task completion on multiple concurrent projects
• Coordinate work activities with others 
• Direct cross-functional and/or industry wide teams as appropriate 
• Provide UX expertise and mentoring to team and stakeholders 

Qualifications:

• Must have a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience of 5+ years experience as a designer and usability practitioner 
• Proven ability to deliver research and design work on time while working on multiple projects
• Experience with web applications required 
• Preference for commercial software experience 
• Must have demonstrated experience delivering quality user interface design, including wireframes and specifications 
• Experience with Axure and Photoshop preferred 
• Must have demonstrated experience delivering user research 
• Must possess strong organizational skills and excellent relationship building skills 
• High level of energy and customer focus 
• Healthcare Industry experience desired 

Company description: UnitedHealth is a company that's on the rise. We're expanding in multiple directions, across borders and, most of all, in the way we think. Here, innovation isn't about another gadget, it's about transforming the health care industry. Ready to make a difference? Make yourself at home with us and start doing your life's best work.(sm) About Optum: Here's the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective—make health care work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world's large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do your life's best work. Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment. In addition, employees in certain positions are subject to random drug testing.
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