Starship Studio (An Optum company)

Job Description

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 Consumer Facing Product Designer to plan, define and design an impactful product experience to drive growth and build trust with our customers. You’ll develop new visual components and interaction patterns at a systems level and build prototypes that communicate your brand and product vision. You’ll support the growth of a best-in-class design team and work closely with engineers to bring your designs to life. You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. **Primary Responsibilities:** - Craft, test, and iterate on designs until the most optimal, intuitive, and elegant solution is identified. - Collaborate with engineers, product managers and designers to ensure we design and ship high quality solutions. - Work on the design of our consumer app, enterprise dashboard, and internal tools - Create innovative and creative design solutions that address user and business needs for specific areas of our products. - Collaborate with the research team to drive empathy and learn from users to inform features enhancements. **Required Qualifications:** - 4+ years of professional experience in product design, with a proven track record of high-impact design work - A portfolio of outstanding product design work including 2+ cases showing high visual acuity shown in consumer focused product case-studies - Experience designing and documenting your designs for communication and implementation purposes. - Experience working through complex workflows using whiteboards, flow charts, wireframes, or other visual diagrams. - Experience with grid systems, composition, typography, and color - 1+ years experience working on large, business critical products. - 1+ years of experience in working within or for large organizations **Preferred Qualifications:** - Experience working in banking or a financial institution - Understanding of healthcare and insurance - Proficiency with prototyping tools such as Figma or Framer