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Staff Product Experience Designer
Job Location:
Job Location:
Sacramento, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
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Posted:
31 May 2026 (30+ days ago)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
28 August 2026
Application Deadline:
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Vacancies:
Job Summary
Speridian Technologies is recruiting for a Staff Product Experience Designer 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 working with a variety of cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
This is a remote role; however there may be meetings in the Sacramento area during the year. Candidates are expected to work business hours Monday-Friday Pacific Time Zone.
Join DHCSs Behavioral Health Transformation: Where Purpose Meets Innovation
Location:Remote
Department:Department of Healthcare Services (DHCS) Behavioral Health Transformation (BHT)
Commitment:Full-Time Consultant (W2 employee of Speridian or 1099/IC for Speridian)
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- its a movement to make California a leader in accessible high-quality health services. Were setting the stage for a new era of government services built on agile methodologies cutting-edge technologies continuous improvement AI and relentless commitment to serving the public good
At DHCS were looking for innovators who are passionate about purposeful work and excited by the opportunity to drive lasting change through innovative solutions
The Staff Product Experience Designer is a senior individual contributor responsible for shaping and delivering endtoend user experiences within a lean agile pod. This hybrid role blends user research systems thinking experience strategy and UI design execution to support the modernization of publicsector licensing and certification services.
Working closely with Product Managers Product Owners Engineering Business Architecture and crossfunctional partners this role drives clarity from discovery through implementation. The Staff Product Experience Designer operates with a researchfirst mindset translates insights into actionable design direction and produces highquality productionready designs using the enterprise design system.
This role ensures experiences are accessible compliant scalable and aligned to policy and program goals while navigating the complexity of multisystem workflows multirole collaboration and publicsector service delivery.
Responsibilities:
Understand Policy Operations & User Context
Speridian Technology is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified individuals with disabilities during the application process.
This is a remote role; however there may be meetings in the Sacramento area during the year. Candidates are expected to work business hours Monday-Friday Pacific Time Zone.
Join DHCSs Behavioral Health Transformation: Where Purpose Meets Innovation
Location:Remote
Department:Department of Healthcare Services (DHCS) Behavioral Health Transformation (BHT)
Commitment:Full-Time Consultant (W2 employee of Speridian or 1099/IC for Speridian)
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- its a movement to make California a leader in accessible high-quality health services. Were setting the stage for a new era of government services built on agile methodologies cutting-edge technologies continuous improvement AI and relentless commitment to serving the public good
At DHCS were looking for innovators who are passionate about purposeful work and excited by the opportunity to drive lasting change through innovative solutions
The Staff Product Experience Designer is a senior individual contributor responsible for shaping and delivering endtoend user experiences within a lean agile pod. This hybrid role blends user research systems thinking experience strategy and UI design execution to support the modernization of publicsector licensing and certification services.
Working closely with Product Managers Product Owners Engineering Business Architecture and crossfunctional partners this role drives clarity from discovery through implementation. The Staff Product Experience Designer operates with a researchfirst mindset translates insights into actionable design direction and produces highquality productionready designs using the enterprise design system.
This role ensures experiences are accessible compliant scalable and aligned to policy and program goals while navigating the complexity of multisystem workflows multirole collaboration and publicsector service delivery.
Responsibilities:
Understand Policy Operations & User Context
- Develop a strong understanding of the policy program goals and regulatory requirements shaping the product.
- Analyze how policy translates into real operational workflows across counties providers and DHCS staff.
- Map endtoend service journeys and multiactor workflows with Product and stakeholders.
- Identify pain points inefficiencies and opportunities across current workflows and systems.
- Lead discovery research using interviews workflow analysis journey mapping and usability testing.
- Understand how users perform their work today including legacy processes and compliancedriven constraints.
- Synthesize research into insights opportunity areas and actionable design direction.
- Validate assumptions early with users Product and policy stakeholders.
- Translate insights and requirements into user flows wireframes interaction patterns and productionready UI designs.
- Own UI design execution in Figma using the enterprise design system.
- Ensure designs are clear accessible and usable for complex administrative workflows.
- Design for multistep workflows multirole users and interconnected systems within the broader service journey.
- Balance usability improvements with policy compliance and operational constraints
- Partner with Product Managers to ensure solutions support both user needs and program goals.
- Collaborate with Engineering to ensure designs are feasible and implemented with high quality.
- Conduct usability testing on prototypes and implemented features iterating based on feedback priorities and technical constraints.
- Apply and evolve enterprise design system patterns to ensure consistency accessibility and usability across interfaces.
- 5 years of experience in UX Research Product Design or a combined UX role
- Proven experience as a fullstack UX practitioner (research strategy design)
- Strong portfolio demonstrating endtoend ownership from research through design execution
- Demonstrated ability to design multistep workflows multirole experiences and interconnected systems
- Experience designing for publicsector compliancedriven or policyconstrained environments
- Experience operating in a fastpaced environment with a lean HCD and agile mindset
- Experience working in agile crossfunctional product development environments
- Bachelors or Masters degree in HCI Design Computer Science or related field
- Excellent communication presentation storytelling and stakeholder collaboration skills
- Strong analytical thinking and problemsolving abilities
- Strong expertise in user research methods (interviews workflow analysis usability testing qualitative and quantitative synthesis)
- Mastery of Figma and proficiency with complementary design tools
- Expertise in visual design interaction design prototyping and design systems
- Deep understanding of accessibility standards (WCAG) usability heuristics and responsive design
- Challenge/take home exercise to be completed and passed
Speridian Technology is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified individuals with disabilities during the application process.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
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