UX Designer, Senior

About Stellarus and the Ascendiun Family of Companies

Stellarus, launched in January 2025, is designed to scale innovative healthcare solutions that support customers in creating a health care experience deserving of their family, friends, and neighbors.    
 
Stellarus is part of a family of organizations that is overseen by a nonprofit corporate entity named Ascendiun. The Ascendiun Family of Companies also includes Blue Shield of California and its subsidiary, Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan and Altais, a clinical services company. 

Stellarus’ vision is to empower its customers to create a healthcare experience that is worthy of their family, friends, and neighbors. Stellarus’ objective is to offer innovative, modern, scalable solutions that challenge the health care status quo. This very closely aligns with Blue Shield of California’s vision by using innovation to improve quality, affordability, and experience for members.   

To achieve our mission, we foster an environment where all employees can thrive and contribute fully to address the needs of the various communities we serve. We are committed to creating and maintaining a supportive workplace that upholds our values and advances our goals.

Our Values: 

At Stellarus, our core values of agility, trust, drive, courage and service shape our approach to developing innovative product offerings.

Physical Requirements:

Office Environment - roles involving part to full time schedule in Office Environment. Based in our physical offices and work from home office/deskwork - Activity level: Sedentary, frequency most of work day.

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Equal Employment Opportunity:

External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest records and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, State and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disability status and any other classification protected by Federal, State and local laws.

Your Role 

The Stellarus Product and UX team defines and designs technology products, creating solutions for users across the spectrum of healthcare. The Senior UX Designer will report to the Director of UX Research and Product Design. In this role you will work with internal stakeholders and team members to design digital product solutions that solve and support our user’s needs, expectations, and pain points.

Our leadership model is about developing great leaders at all levels and creating opportunities for our people to grow – personally, professionally, and financially. We are looking for leaders that are energized by creative and critical thinking, building and sustaining high-performing teams, getting results the right way, and fostering continuous learning.

Your Work 

In this role, you will: 

• Contribute to projects across the product lifecycle, from concept and discovery through production, with guidance from leads 
• Apply a range of UX/UI skills, including user research, wireframing, and high-fidelity prototyping, to support product development 
• Collaborate with product, business, and engineering partners to support UX sprint planning and execution 
• Contribute to UX strategy efforts and help align design solutions to user and business needs 
• Design thoughtful user experiences that address both explicit user needs and potential opportunities for improvement 
• Create product prototypes that are usable, visually clear, and aligned with product goals 
• Support the creation and ongoing maintenance of the design system, and partner with engineering to ensure consistent implementation
• Work through complex problem spaces with support from senior team members, contributing to structured approaches and solutions

Your Knowledge and Experience 

• Requires at least 5 years relevant UX, Product, Research or Design experience 
• Requires a Bachelor’s degree or High School Diploma/GED and 4 years of additional relevant experience in lieu of a degree
• Requires a portfolio to be submitted in application
• Competency in any of the other design disciplines - User Research/User Testing, Visual Design, Motion Design, Human Factors Engineering; a big plus
• Experience in the health or wellness industry, a plus
• Experience on teams shipping digital product, a plus