Manager User Experience

As a Manager User Experience - UI/UX at Optum in Hyderabad, Telangana, you will define and lead the UI vision and strategy across products. This role involves mentoring a team of UI designers and engineers, establishing best practices, and ensuring pixel-perfect, visually consistent interfaces across platforms. You will oversee end-to-end UI design, including mockups, style guides, and prototypes, ensuring adherence to accessibility (WCAG) standards and collaborating with UX and Engineering teams for seamless implementation. Presenting visual concepts to executive stakeholders will also be a key responsibility.

Optum is committed to helping people live healthier lives and making the health system work better for everyone. We believe in equitable care and are actively working to address health disparities.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Define and own the UI vision, strategy, and visual design standards across products.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of UI designers and UI engineers.
• Establish UI best practices, component libraries, and design systems.
• Advocate for pixel-perfect, visually consistent interfaces across platforms.
• Oversee end-to-end UI design including high-fidelity mockups, style guides, and prototypes.
• Ensure design consistency and adherence to accessibility (WCAG) standards.
• Conduct design quality reviews and provide constructive feedback.
• Partner with UX teams to translate wireframes into visually engaging UI screens.
• Collaborate with Engineering teams to ensure design feasibility and accurate front-end implementation.
• Present visual concepts, themes, and recommendations to executive stakeholders.
• Comply with all company policies and directives.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of experience in UI/UX design, with 2-4+ years in a leadership or principal role.
• Strong portfolio showcasing high-quality UI design, interaction patterns, visual storytelling, and product UI work.
• Proficiency with modern design tools (Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, Photoshop, Illustrator, AI-driven design tools).
• Solid understanding of front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React/Next.js).
• Strong understanding of responsive design, accessibility (WCAG), typography, grids, layouts, and design systems.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.