Senior User Experience UX Designer

Overview

The Senior Product Designer (UX/UI) is a critical role within Cotiviti’s Design-Driven Development (DDD) team, responsible for shaping product direction through discovery, design, and strategic collaboration. This role goes beyond executional UX/UI work and serves as a design and product partner to Product Management and Engineering—helping define the right problems to solve, validating solutions early, and enabling teams to build high-quality, customer-centered products with confidence.

Operating within a DDD model, this designer will front-load discovery, reduce delivery risk, and ensure design intent is clearly communicated and development-ready before and during build. The ideal candidate brings strong UX/UI craft, product design rigor, and product strategy thinking, with the ability to balance user needs, business goals, and technical constraints in a complex, regulated domain.

Design-Driven Discovery & Product Strategy

• Lead and contribute to discovery efforts, including problem framing, user research, workflow definition, hypothesis generation, and concept validation.
• Plan and conduct qualitative and quantitative research to uncover user needs, pain points, and unmet opportunities.
• Partner closely with Product Managers to influence product vision, define outcomes, and shape roadmaps through design insights.
• Facilitate discovery workshops, design studios, and alignment sessions to build shared understanding across teams.
• Synthesize research, stakeholder input, and system constraints into actionable insights and design principles.

Product Design & UX/UI Execution

• Design end-to-end user experiences across complex, data-heavy web and mobile applications, with a focus on clarity, efficiency, and usability.
• Translate complex workflows, business rules, and domain constraints into intuitive, human-centered experiences.
• Create comprehensive design artifacts, including workflows, journey maps, user flows, wireframes, high-fidelity UI designs, and interactive prototypes.
• Ensure designs are intuitive, accessible, scalable, and aligned with user needs, business objectives, and platform standards.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering to evaluate feasibility, identify constraints, and refine solutions.
• Iterate designs based on user feedback, usability testing, validation findings, stakeholder input, and evolving product requirements.
• Balance design quality with delivery timelines, making thoughtful tradeoffs without compromising core user needs.

Design Enablement & Delivery

• Produce clear, build-ready design artifacts that enable efficient development and reduce rework.
• Collaborate with Engineering throughout the delivery lifecycle, including refinement, sprint planning, and implementation support.
• Leverage tools such as Figma and Dev Mode to support effective design-to-development handoff.
• Partner with developers during implementation to answer questions, review builds, and ensure design quality.

Design Systems & Standards

• Contribute to and evolve design systems, workflow components, and reusable patterns.
• Apply existing design system components consistently while identifying opportunities for extension or refinement.
• Ensure consistency across products while allowing flexibility for unique use cases.
• Advocate for design quality, usability, and accessibility standards across teams.
• Promote reuse and standardization to improve efficiency and reduce design and development debt.

Collaboration & Communication

• Present design concepts, rationale, and product narratives to stakeholders at varying levels.
• Facilitate alignment across Product, Engineering, and Design through clear storytelling and shared understanding.
• Act as a design leader within cross-functional teams, modeling best practices and design thinking.
• Promote reuse and standardization to improve efficiency and reduce design and development debt.

• BA/BS or MA/MS in Graphic Design, Interaction Design, Human Computer Interface Design, Visual Arts, Product Design, or equivalent program required.
• 7–10 years of experience designing user experiences for mobile and web apps, or experience in visual or interaction design.
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