Principal Product Designer - Unified Global Ecosystem

Speridian Technologies is recruiting for a Principal Product Designer - Global Experience for our State of California Client, the Department of Healthcare Services, Behavioral Health. This person will be part of a long‑term, fully budgeted, state‑of‑the‑art, extremely vast technical modernization project.

This is a remote role; however, there may be meetings in the Sacramento area several times a year. Candidates are expected to work business hours, Monday‑Friday, Pacific Time Zone.

Join DHCS’s Behavioral Health Transformation:
Where Purpose Meets Innovation

Location: Remote

At DHCS we are leading a transformative journey in Behavioral Health, reshaping systems and services to ensure better outcomes for communities across California. Our Behavioral Health transformation initiative is more than a project—it’s a movement to make California a leader in accessible, high‑quality health services. We’re setting the stage for a new era of government services built on agile methodologies, cutting‑edge technology, continuous improvement, and a relentless commitment to serving the public good.

At DHCS, we’re looking for innovators who are passionate about purposeful work and excited by the opportunity to drive lasting change through innovative solutions.

• Partnership: Respect Other, Practice Empathy, Earn Trust
• Ownership: Take Accountability, Show Reliability, Act with Integrity
• Grit: Bring Passion, Exhibit Perseverance, Demonstrate Resilience
• Value: Drive Outcomes, Maximize Impact, Keep Improving

We are seeking a highly strategic, systems‑oriented Principal Product Designer to lead the design of a unified global experience that serves as the foundation for multiple mission‑critical applications.

This is not a feature design role. This is a platform design leadership role.

You will own the design of the global application shell, navigation system, way‑finding experience, and cross‑application UX standards that enable independent product teams to operate within a single, coherent digital environment. You will define how users discover, enter, orient within, and move across applications — without re‑learning core behaviors.

You will work directly with executive product leadership and engineering to translate enterprise platform strategy into durable user experience standards that scale.

• Way‑finding and the public‑to‑authenticated “front door” experience
• Information architecture across the portal
• Global navigation systems and orientation patterns
• Cross‑application UX contracts and interaction standards
• Workflow context presentation patterns (how state, progress, and status are surfaced consistently)
• Global UX behavior standards across applications
• Adoption materials and onboarding guidance for product teams integrating into the platform

You will define how identity context, workflow context, and application context are experienced inside the unified interface.

You will not design individual program workflows or feature‑level interactions within application teams. You will define the patterns those teams build within.

• Translate enterprise platform strategy into scalable UX systems
• Define and evolve the portal’s information architecture
• Establish global navigation principles that support multi‑application ecosystems
• Design durable patterns that prevent fragmentation while preserving team autonomy

• Design the public‑facing portal entry experience (“front door”)
• Ensure continuity between public information and authenticated user environments
• Create clear orientation models for different user roles and organizational contexts

• Define authoritative global UX patterns and interaction contracts
• Establish workflow context presentation standards
• Create reusable design patterns and guidelines for application teams
  
  Balance flexibility and standardization through principled design decisions

• Develop onboarding materials and integration…