Principal Product Designer - Unified Global Experience Ecosystem

Speridian Technologies•Sacramento, CA

1d•Remote

About The Position

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. 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.

Requirements

8+ years of product design experience, including platform or multi-product environments
Experience designing enterprise portals, platform shells, or cross-application ecosystems
Strong expertise in information architecture and navigation design
Experience designing role-based or multi-tenant user experiences
Experience defining and governing design systems or global UX standards
Demonstrated ability to influence multiple product teams without direct authority
Systems thinking
Information architecture expertise
Platform-level UX governance
Strong written communication
Facilitation and alignment skills
Ownership mentality
Ability to create structure in complex environments

Nice To Haves

Experience designing experiences that integrate identity and role-based access systems
Experience working with workflow-driven or stateful systems
Experience in regulated industries (healthcare, public sector, financial services)
Experience building adoption materials or internal enablement frameworks

Responsibilities

Serve as the principal designer for the Global Experience Platform, including: 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
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 guidance for product teams
Document UX standards and platform expectations
Support application teams adopting the global experience framework
Measure adoption and iterate on standards based on real-world usage