Senior Product Designer, Agentic Platform - Remote

UnitedHealth Group
Full-time•$113k-193k/year (USD)
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<p><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">UnitedHealth Group is a health care and well-being company that’s dedicated to improving the health outcomes of millions around the world. We are comprised of two distinct and complementary businesses, UnitedHealthcare and Optum, working to build a better health system for all. Here, your contributions matter as they will help transform health care for years to come. Make an impact with a team that shares your passion for helping others. Join us in making healthcare work better for everyone through people-led, responsible AI while <strong>Caring. Connecting. Growing together.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">The Enterprise Modernization organization is building enterprise-grade agentic capabilities designed to simplify work, safely scale AI-enabled execution and create opportunities for external commercialization. The Senior Product Designer will shape intuitive, trustworthy and accessible experiences across the agentic platform, helping users discover, configure, supervise and measure AI agents with confidence.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">&nbsp;</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">This role operates at the intersection of experience design, product management, engineering, research, architecture, security, governance and commercialization. The Senior Product Designer will translate complex agent behaviors, enterprise controls and technical workflows into clear user journeys and scalable interaction patterns for business users, administrators, developers and governance stakeholders.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">&nbsp;</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;"><strong>Primary Responsibilities:&nbsp;</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">Define the agentic platform experience</span></p><ul><li><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">Partner with Product and Engineering to define end-to-end experiences for agent discovery, onboarding, configuration, deployment, supervision, performance monitoring and lifecycle management</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">Translate platform strategy, user needs and technical constraints into journey maps, service blueprints, information architecture, interaction models, wireframes and high-fidelity designs</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">Design experiences for multiple personas, including business users, agent builders, developers, platform administrators, risk reviewers and customer support teams</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">Create coherent workflows across marketplace, agent studio, runtime controls, observability, policy management, data connections and administration capabilities</span><br>&nbsp;</li></ul><p><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">Design trustworthy human-agent interactions</span></p><ul><li><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">Define interaction patterns that make agent purpose, capabilities, limitations, data use, permissions and expected outcomes understandable to users</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">Design effective human-in-the-loop experiences for review, approval, escalation, intervention, exception handling and recovery from failed or uncertain agent actions</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">Make agent status, reasoning summaries, source attribution, action history and confidence indicators understandable without exposing unnecessary technical complexity</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">Partner with Responsible AI, Security, Privacy, Legal, Compliance and Risk teams to translate policies and controls into usable product experiences</span><br>&nbsp;</li></ul><p><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">Lead user-centered discovery and validation</span></p><ul><li><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">Plan and conduct interviews, contextual inquiry, workflow analysis, concept testing and usability studies with internal users and prospective external customers</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">Synthesize qualitative and quantitative evidence into experience principles, design requirements, opportunity areas and prioritized recommendations</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">Use prototypes to test complex agentic concepts early, reduce delivery risk and improve product decisions before engineering investment</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">Partner with Product to define experience success measures such as task completion, time to value, comprehension, adoption, error prevention and user confidence</span><br>&nbsp;</li></ul><p><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">Create scalable interaction and design systems</span></p><ul><li><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">Establish reusable patterns for agent cards, permissions, tool and data connections, conversational interfaces, workflow visualization, alerts, approvals, audit history and analytics</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">Extend the enterprise design system with components and guidance specific to agentic experiences while maintaining accessibility, consistency and brand alignment</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">Document interaction standards, responsive behavior, content guidance, edge cases and component usage so teams can implement experiences consistently</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">Collaborate with Design System, Content Design and Front-End Engineering partners to improve component quality and adoption</span><br>&nbsp;</li></ul><p><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">Drive delivery with product and engineering</span></p><ul><li><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">Work within agile product teams from discovery through release, providing design specifications, interaction details, prototypes and implementation guidance</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">Partner with technical leaders to balance user value, platform reuse, feasibility, security, performance and delivery sequencing</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">Review implemented experiences for design quality, accessibility and alignment with intended workflows; identify and resolve gaps before release</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">Contribute to roadmap planning, backlog refinement, acceptance criteria, design reviews and release-readiness decisions</span><br>&nbsp;</li></ul><p><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">Influence experience strategy and design culture</span></p><ul><li><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">Present experience strategy, research insights, prototypes, design decisions and recommendations to senior product, technology and business stakeholders</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">Facilitate cross-functional workshops that align teams around user problems, target journeys, design principles and measurable outcomes</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">Mentor designers and help establish practical methods for designing AI-enabled and agentic enterprise experiences</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">Advocate for customer-centered design, accessibility and evidence-based decision-making across the platform organization</span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">&nbsp;</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">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.</span></p><br><br><p><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;"><strong>Required Qualifications:&nbsp;</strong></span></p><ul><li><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">Bachelor's degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, User Experience, Graphic Design, Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">10+ years of experience in UX, product design, interaction design or related disciplines, including significant experience designing complex enterprise software or platforms</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">Portfolio demonstrating end-to-end design thinking, information architecture, interaction design, prototyping and measurable improvement of complex digital experiences</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">Experience leading design for multi-persona workflows, administration experiences, developer or platform products, data-intensive applications or enterprise SaaS solutions</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">Advanced proficiency with modern design and prototyping tools such as Figma, including component libraries, design systems and interactive prototypes</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">Demonstrated ability to translate technical concepts, system behavior and business rules into intuitive workflows and understandable interfaces</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">Experience planning and conducting user research and usability testing, synthesizing findings and using evidence to influence product direction</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">Demonstrated understanding of AI/ML and LLM-enabled experiences, including conversational interfaces, agent workflows, automation, transparency, oversight and failure states</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">Proven working knowledge of accessibility standards and inclusive design practices, including WCAG and accessible interaction patterns</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and collaborate effectively with Product, Engineering, Architecture, Research, Content Design, Security and Risk teams</span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;"><strong>Preferred Qualifications:&nbsp;</strong>&nbsp;</span></p><ul><li><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">Bachelor’s degree in human-Computer Interaction, Design, Cognitive Science, Computer Science or a related field</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">Experience designing agentic AI platforms, AI assistants, workflow automation, marketplaces, developer platforms or governance and observability products</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">Experience with enterprise design systems and establishing reusable interaction patterns across multiple products or teams</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">Experience designing for regulated or high-trust environments where privacy, security, auditability, identity and policy controls affect the user experience</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">Familiarity with APIs, data connectors, identity and access management, policy controls, telemetry, semantic or knowledge layers and multi-tenant SaaS architectures</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">Experience using product analytics, experimentation and qualitative research together to guide design priorities and assess outcomes</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">Experience mentoring designers, facilitating executive-level design discussions and helping a new platform establish its experience vision and design practices</span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">&nbsp;</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">&nbsp;</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, we offer benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with us, you’ll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives. The salary for this role will range from $112,700 - $193,200 annually based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;"><i>At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and help make the health system work better for everyone. Together, we are shaping the future of healthcare by harnessing technology and innovation to make care simpler to navigate, more affordable and more connected for the people we serve. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels welcomed, valued, heard and respected, empowering people to bring their authentic selves to work and strengthening our collective impact through diverse talents, backgrounds, experiences and perspectives.</i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;"><i>&nbsp;</i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;"><i>&nbsp;</i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;"><i>UnitedHealth Group and its affiliated brands are an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.</i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;"><i>&nbsp;</i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;"><i>UnitedHealth Group and its affiliated brands are a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.&nbsp;</i></span></p>

Application Requirements

Candidates must have 10+ years of experience in UX or product design, specifically with complex enterprise software or platforms. A bachelor's degree in a relevant field and proficiency in modern design tools like Figma are required.