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
Department: Department of Healthcare Services (DHCS), Behavioral Health Transformation (BHT)
Commitment: Full-Time Consultant (W2 employee of Speridian or 1099/IC for Speridian)
Why DHCS?
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.
Our core values are what make us successful and define the impact we have on the DHCS program and California’s citizens.
- 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
Role Description: Staff UX Designers create end-to-end design experiences (from planning to execution) for complex product areas, ensuring alignment with business goals and user needs. They drive design excellence across complex product areas. They translate product strategy and user research needs into innovative and practical design solutions. This role is responsible for creating thoughtful, user-centered experiences that align with business objectives and technical constraints.
Responsibilities:
- Deliver high-quality design artifacts—user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and final UI
- Champion usability, accessibility (WCAG standards), and design consistency
- Support design system maintenance and contribute towards scaling and evangelizing the design system across the organization
- Partner with engineering to implement scalable and maintainable design solutions
- Contribute to the product roadmap with a design lens, advocating for user-centered approaches
- Collaborate with Product Managers, Product Owners, Engineers, Researchers, and Content Designers to iterate and ship high-quality experiences
- Participate in discovery sessions, sprint planning, critiques, and design reviews
- Communicate design rationale clearly to stakeholders at all levels
- Advocate for design best practices and contribute to team-wide standards, templates, and documentation
- 5+ years of experience in UX or Product Design with a strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end design work
- Proven experience designing for complex or enterprise-level digital products
- Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Design, HCI, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)
- Experience working in agile, cross-functional product teams
- Expert in tools like Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, or equivalent
- Strong understanding of interaction design, visual hierarchy, layout, and responsive design principles
- Experience with prototyping tools
- Ability to think holistically and design scalable systems across platforms
- Strong problem-solving skills with a user-first mindset
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and making data-informed decisions
- Excellent storytelling, presentation, and stakeholder management skills
- Strong collaboration with engineering to ensure feasible, high-quality implementation
- Proactive communicator who can drive alignment and influence decisions across functions
- Challenge/take home exercise to be completed and passed
Speridian is an equal opportunity employer
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Speridian is an innovative, thought-leading digital modernization company that leverages modern software engineering and proprietary platform solutions to streamline and enhance interactions between clients and constituents within commercial and public sector markets. As a global business and technology solutions provider, Speridian's business and technology experts help clients modernize their businesses through Digital Transformation. Headquartered in Albuquerque, NM, with regional offices in the Americas, Middle East, Singapore, India, Pakistan, and Philippines; Speridian has been at the forefront of CRM, ERP, HR, CX innovation since 2003. Our Next-Gen Solutions Practice combined with our partnerships with leading innovators such as Oracle, Microsoft, Salesforce, Google, Amazon, UiPath, Adobe, SAP etc has led to our proven track record of solving the most pressing business problems with our unique, industry-based 3-pillar approach: (1) business focus, 2) technology-fuelled innovation, and 3) delivery excellence. Speridian’s services include consulting, testing and quality assurance, custom development, cloud computing, IT support and managed services, AI and machine learning, system integration, big data and analytics, customer experience solutions, application modernization, and staffing professional services. Based on the rich domain expertise that Speridian acquired over the years, Speridian developed several advanced platforms, enhancing their service offerings: CaseXellence, a low-code intelligent process automation platform, is designed for public sector enterprises. It modernizes legacy infrastructure and includes pre-built solutions focused on security, transparency, and traceability. Beacon, another of Speridian’s innovations, is a comprehensive suite of banking solutions. It offers a range of products including Core Banking, Loan Management, and Banking Analytics, catering to over 200 financial institutions. Finally, Speridian O360 is an Enterprise management platform providing a 360-degree view of core HR and Project Management processes. Tailored for small to medium-sized organizations, it aims to boost productivity by automating manual tasks, allowing HR to focus on strategic and critical business tasks.
