Product Design Director
1 month ago
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.**
This role is with Starship, a division of Optum Financial focused on making benefits better through human-centered design and product innovation. Our mission is to unify and elevate the user experience for a range of products including HSAs, FSAs and lifestyle benefits. We believe the experience of using benefits should be simple, modern and fun, and we’re dedicated to bringing that vision to life.
Our products are forward-thinking, and our company culture is no different. We’re a small, creative, nimble team that knows how to get work done—and have fun. We’ve got the inspirational spark of a startup combined with the trusted expertise of a Fortune 5 company. And we’re looking for bright, like-minded humans to join the party.
We’re looking for a Product Design Director with a high-quality design execution to be both hands-on in the work and leading design work on cross-functional squad(s) to ensure design is meeting business objectives. The right person for this role has an eye for detail and an obsession with craft. They are motivated to ship quality consumer-focused products and can lead teams through ambiguity while balancing ambition and pragmatism. Additionally, they are agile and resilient and have worked in a range of settings from start-ups to larger corporate settings.
You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely
- from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.
**Primary Responsibilities**:
- Lead through craft and move seamlessly between designing and leading
- Inform and strategic decision-making in collaboration with product and engineering peers
- Frame and solve hard problems to propose innovative and viable solutions
- Provide creative leadership and for your team to do their best work
- People management with a focus on supporting growth and removing obstacles
- Establish processes on squads and within the greater design team to ensure quality outcomes
- Champion and support cross-team collaboration, processes, and cultivate team growth
- Be a pillar for quality design, staying in the know of the latest design trends and developments in order to champion new and innovative ideas
- Support and enhance the development of our design system in Figma and the translation into Storybook
- Collaborating on product roadmaps
- Present work and facilitating workshops with executives
- Partner with the research team to drive empathy and understanding and inform product enhancements and features
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**:
- 8+ years of professional design experience
- 3+ years of management and leadership experience
- 3+ years of experience leading and executing on design systems work
- 1+ years of experience working within accessibility guidelines and developing processes to support it
- 1+ years of experience in working within or for large organizations
- 2+ cases outlining how their design leadership has met business objectives
- 2+ cases showing high visual acuity shown in consumer focused product case-studies
**Preferred Qualifications**:
- Experience working in banking or a financial institution
- Understanding of healthcare and insurance
- Experience in brand design
- All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.
- At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes — an enterprise priority reflected in our mission._
- Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employme
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