Senior Product Designer, Agentic Platform - Remote

United Health 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, United Healthcare 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 Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

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.

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.

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.

• Partner with Product and Engineering to define end-to-end experiences for agent discovery, onboarding, configuration, deployment, supervision, performance monitoring and lifecycle management
• Translate platform strategy, user needs and technical constraints into journey maps, service blueprints, information architecture, interaction models, wireframes and high-fidelity designs
• Design experiences for multiple personas, including business users, agent builders, developers, platform administrators, risk reviewers and customer support teams
• Create coherent workflows across marketplace, agent studio, runtime controls, observability, policy management, data connections and administration capabilities

• Define interaction patterns that make agent purpose, capabilities, limitations, data use, permissions and expected outcomes understandable to users
• Design effective human-in-the-loop experiences for review, approval, escalation, intervention, exception handling and recovery from failed or uncertain agent actions
• Make agent status, reasoning summaries, source attribution, action history and confidence indicators understandable without exposing unnecessary technical complexity
• Partner with Responsible AI, Security, Privacy, Legal, Compliance and Risk teams to translate policies and controls into usable product experiences

• Plan and conduct interviews, contextual inquiry, workflow analysis, concept testing and usability studies with internal users and prospective external customers
• Synthesize qualitative and quantitative evidence into experience principles, design requirements, opportunity areas and prioritized recommendations
• Use prototypes to test complex agentic concepts early, reduce delivery risk and improve product decisions before engineering investment
• Partner with Product to define experience success measures such as task completion, time to value, comprehension, adoption, error prevention and user confidence

• Establish reusable patterns for agent cards, permissions, tool and data connections, conversational interfaces, workflow visualization, alerts, approvals, audit history and analytics
• Extend the enterprise design system with components and guidance specific to agentic experiences while maintaining accessibility, consistency and brand alignment
• Document interaction standards, responsive behavior, content guidance, edge cases and component usage so teams can implement experiences consistently
• Collaborate with Design System, Content Design and Front-End Engineering partners to improve component quality and adoption

• Work within agile product teams from discovery through release, providing design specifications, interaction…