Staff User Experience Designer, Legal & Insurance Job at Datavant in Topeka

The Role

We’re looking for a Staff User Experience Designer to lead the end-to-end product experience design for Datavant’s new Legal & Insurance vertical. This vertical’s mission is to enable seamless medical record retrieval and value-added services for attorneys, copy services, and insurance record requesters.

This is a senior individual contributor role where you will set the design vision, partner with product, engineering, data science, and operations to build this business line from inception, conduct market and customer research, and establish scalable UX frameworks and design systems. You will represent the voice of the user at the leadership level and work with cutting-edge AI to design innovative, data-rich solutions. You will also execute on critical design and research work while leading strategically.

This is a unique opportunity to help shape a new business at Datavant — ideal for a Staff-level designer who thrives in ambiguity, leads with systems thinking, and enjoys designing in complex, regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Set the design vision for the vertical, shaping product strategy through design from day one.
• Partner closely with product, engineering, data science, and operations to build this business line from inception.
• Conduct market and customer research, including user interviews, workflow studies, and competitive analysis, to ground design decisions in real-world needs.
• Establish scalable UX frameworks and design systems that ensure consistency across products.
• Represent the voice of the user at the leadership level, influencing strategy and prioritization.
• Work with cutting-edge AI to design innovative, data-rich solutions.
• This is a senior individual contributor role — you will set the vision and lead strategically, while also rolling up your sleeves to execute on critical design and research work.

We are committed to building a diverse team of Datavanters who are all responsible for stewarding a high-performance culture in which all Datavanters belong and thrive. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.

What You’ll Bring

• 8–12+ years of experience in user experience design, with a proven record of leading complex, enterprise-grade, data-heavy products.

• Demonstrated ability to shape product strategy through design and research, not just deliver features.

• Strong background in user research — designing and conducting interviews, usability studies, and market analysis to inform product direction.

• Experience defining design systems, workflows, and scalable frameworks.

• Familiarity with healthcare; bonus if experienced with medical record retrieval processes and attorneys, copy services, or insurance use cases.

• Strong communicator who can simplify complexity and influence executive and cross-functional leadership.

• Track record of mentoring and elevating design peers, raising the overall bar for craft and process.

• A collaborative team player with a self-starter, entrepreneurial mindset — thrives in ambiguity, learns quickly, and executes relentlessly.

• A strategic thinker who can fluidly shift between strategy and execution.

We are committed to a work environment free from job discrimination. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status. To learn more about our commitment, please review our EEO Commitment Statement here and Know Your Rights resources.

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