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User Experience Designers commonly secure H-1B visa, O-1 visa, and E-3 visa sponsorship from tech companies, consulting firms, and startups. The role qualifies as a specialty occupation when requiring a bachelor's degree in design, human-computer interaction, or related fields. Portfolio-driven hiring means demonstrating design thinking and user research skills often matters more than traditional credentials.
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Join athenahealth’s quest to make healthcare work the way it should.
athenahealth is looking for designers who can dive into complex design challenges and create solutions to help transform the healthcare industry. If you’re a talented, innovative, and strategic designer motivated to make a difference in healthcare, we want to talk to you.
Position Summary
We’re looking for a multifaceted Principal Experience Designer to join the Medication Management team within our Clinicals product. This role combines hands-on experience design with strategic design leadership, requiring someone who can both shape the long-term direction of our product and translate that vision into thoughtful, effective solutions. Working closely with a multidisciplinary agile R&D team, you’ll develop a deep understanding of the needs and workflows of providers and clinical staff, identify opportunities to improve their experiences, and help drive meaningful improvements that ease the burden on humans in healthcare.
About the Team
The Medication Management (Meds) team develops efficient, intuitive experiences across a system that sends over 17 million prescriptions per month. It provides clinicians with information about patients’ medications and supports medication management and vaccine administration so they can deliver high-quality patient care.
We envision a future where medication management is effortless, intelligent, and connected, so every patient can start and stay on the treatment that is best for them. As part of the Meds zone, you’ll work to create more tailored experiences related to ordering and reconciliation, medication list management, and medication adherence, reimagining and optimizing capabilities our users consistently identify as essential to their work.
A successful candidate will embrace the challenge of elevating design within an enterprise product team. You’ll champion our users, develop a clear point of view on UX decisions, and work both independently and collaboratively to influence outcomes across the zone. You enjoy finding ways to drive incremental but significant improvements that keep us moving toward a greater long-term vision.
Role Location
This is a hybrid role based in Boston, MA. Domestic travel is expected a few times per year to conduct onsite research with our customers, shadowing clinicians who use our products.
Essential Job Responsibilities
- Conduct generative research to inform product strategy, identify opportunities, and define project scope.
- Translate complex clinical workflows and user needs into intuitive product experiences, from early concepts through detailed interaction design and implementation.
- Collaborate with cross-functional colleagues to establish a long-term vision for complex problem spaces and translate that vision into manageable phases of work.
- Guide teams through decisions and tradeoffs related to project scope, design strategy, and implementation, balancing user needs, risks, dependencies, and business constraints.
- Create workflows, journey maps, vision documents, and other artifacts to influence product backlog prioritization and planning.
- Plan and facilitate workshops to interpret research, frame problems, identify opportunities, explore solutions, and align teams on next steps.
- Foster empathy for users through storytelling and compelling, shareable research and design artifacts.
- Help define success criteria and metrics to evaluate design outcomes.
Additional Job Responsibilities
- Proactively build relationships across product teams and organizational boundaries to promote collaboration, cohesion, and consistency across the full user experience.
- Mentor junior designers and guide cross-functional colleagues through design reviews and collaborative problem-solving.
- Contribute to team-wide initiatives that strengthen design processes and practices.
- Adapt to evolving business and team needs with flexibility, initiative, and a willingness to contribute wherever needed to achieve results.
Expected Education & Experience
- 8+ years of professional UX experience.
- Demonstrated ability to influence across functions and product areas, incorporating diverse perspectives while developing and advocating for a clear point of view.
- Deep knowledge of UX practices within agile software development, including ideation, interaction design, user research, and evaluative testing.
- Extensive experience conducting and synthesizing user research, immersing yourself in complex problem spaces, and translating insights into actionable product decisions.
- Strong analytical thinking, problem-framing, and communication skills, with the ability to navigate ambiguity, consider risks and constraints, and make timely decisions.
- Hands-on experience with or exposure to emerging AI tools, with the ability to explore new tools independently and apply them thoughtfully to accelerate work and create meaningful value.
- Portfolio demonstrating the ability to tell a compelling story about discovering problems, defining solutions, influencing strategy, and collaborating on successful execution.
Expected Compensation
$153,000 - $259,000* The base salary range shown reflects the full range for this role from minimum to maximum. At athenahealth, base pay depends on multiple factors, including job-related experience, relevant knowledge and skills, how your qualifications compare to others in similar roles, and geographical market rates. Base pay is only one part of our competitive Total Rewards package - depending on role eligibility, we offer both short and long-term incentives by way of an annual discretionary bonus plan, variable compensation plan, and equity plans.
About athenahealth
Our vision: In an industry that becomes more complex by the day, we stand for simplicity. We offer IT solutions and expert services that eliminate the daily hurdles preventing healthcare providers from focusing entirely on their patients — powered by our vision to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.
Our company culture: Our talented employees — or athenistas, as we call ourselves — spark the innovation and passion needed to accomplish our vision. We are a diverse group of dreamers and doers with unique knowledge, expertise, backgrounds, and perspectives. We unite as mission-driven problem-solvers with a deep desire to achieve our vision and make our time here count. Our award-winning culture is built around shared values of inclusiveness, accountability, and support.
Our DEI commitment: Our vision of accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all requires addressing the inequities that stand in the way. That's one reason we prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion in every aspect of our business, from attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce to maintaining an inclusive environment for athenistas, our partners, customers and the communities where we work and serve.
What we can do for you:
Along with health and financial benefits, athenistas enjoy perks specific to each location, including commuter support, employee assistance programs, tuition assistance, employee resource groups, and collaborative workspaces — some offices even welcome dogs.
We also encourage a better work-life balance for athenistas with our flexibility. While we know in-office collaboration is critical to our vision, we recognize that not all work needs to be done within an office environment, full-time. With consistent communication and digital collaboration tools, athenahealth enables employees to find a balance that feels fulfilling and productive for each individual situation.
In addition to our traditional benefits and perks, we sponsor events throughout the year, including book clubs, external speakers, and hackathons. We provide athenistas with a company culture based on learning, the support of an engaged team, and an inclusive environment where all employees are valued.
Learn more about our culture and benefits here: athenahealth.com/careers
https://www.athenahealth.com/careers/equal-opportunity
Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.
Join athenahealth’s quest to make healthcare work the way it should.
athenahealth is looking for designers who can dive into complex design challenges and create solutions to help transform the healthcare industry. If you’re a talented, innovative, and strategic designer motivated to make a difference in healthcare, we want to talk to you.
Position Summary
We’re looking for a multifaceted Principal Experience Designer to join the Medication Management team within our Clinicals product. This role combines hands-on experience design with strategic design leadership, requiring someone who can both shape the long-term direction of our product and translate that vision into thoughtful, effective solutions. Working closely with a multidisciplinary agile R&D team, you’ll develop a deep understanding of the needs and workflows of providers and clinical staff, identify opportunities to improve their experiences, and help drive meaningful improvements that ease the burden on humans in healthcare.
About the Team
The Medication Management (Meds) team develops efficient, intuitive experiences across a system that sends over 17 million prescriptions per month. It provides clinicians with information about patients’ medications and supports medication management and vaccine administration so they can deliver high-quality patient care.
We envision a future where medication management is effortless, intelligent, and connected, so every patient can start and stay on the treatment that is best for them. As part of the Meds zone, you’ll work to create more tailored experiences related to ordering and reconciliation, medication list management, and medication adherence, reimagining and optimizing capabilities our users consistently identify as essential to their work.
A successful candidate will embrace the challenge of elevating design within an enterprise product team. You’ll champion our users, develop a clear point of view on UX decisions, and work both independently and collaboratively to influence outcomes across the zone. You enjoy finding ways to drive incremental but significant improvements that keep us moving toward a greater long-term vision.
Role Location
This is a hybrid role based in Boston, MA. Domestic travel is expected a few times per year to conduct onsite research with our customers, shadowing clinicians who use our products.
Essential Job Responsibilities
- Conduct generative research to inform product strategy, identify opportunities, and define project scope.
- Translate complex clinical workflows and user needs into intuitive product experiences, from early concepts through detailed interaction design and implementation.
- Collaborate with cross-functional colleagues to establish a long-term vision for complex problem spaces and translate that vision into manageable phases of work.
- Guide teams through decisions and tradeoffs related to project scope, design strategy, and implementation, balancing user needs, risks, dependencies, and business constraints.
- Create workflows, journey maps, vision documents, and other artifacts to influence product backlog prioritization and planning.
- Plan and facilitate workshops to interpret research, frame problems, identify opportunities, explore solutions, and align teams on next steps.
- Foster empathy for users through storytelling and compelling, shareable research and design artifacts.
- Help define success criteria and metrics to evaluate design outcomes.
Additional Job Responsibilities
- Proactively build relationships across product teams and organizational boundaries to promote collaboration, cohesion, and consistency across the full user experience.
- Mentor junior designers and guide cross-functional colleagues through design reviews and collaborative problem-solving.
- Contribute to team-wide initiatives that strengthen design processes and practices.
- Adapt to evolving business and team needs with flexibility, initiative, and a willingness to contribute wherever needed to achieve results.
Expected Education & Experience
- 8+ years of professional UX experience.
- Demonstrated ability to influence across functions and product areas, incorporating diverse perspectives while developing and advocating for a clear point of view.
- Deep knowledge of UX practices within agile software development, including ideation, interaction design, user research, and evaluative testing.
- Extensive experience conducting and synthesizing user research, immersing yourself in complex problem spaces, and translating insights into actionable product decisions.
- Strong analytical thinking, problem-framing, and communication skills, with the ability to navigate ambiguity, consider risks and constraints, and make timely decisions.
- Hands-on experience with or exposure to emerging AI tools, with the ability to explore new tools independently and apply them thoughtfully to accelerate work and create meaningful value.
- Portfolio demonstrating the ability to tell a compelling story about discovering problems, defining solutions, influencing strategy, and collaborating on successful execution.
Expected Compensation
$153,000 - $259,000* The base salary range shown reflects the full range for this role from minimum to maximum. At athenahealth, base pay depends on multiple factors, including job-related experience, relevant knowledge and skills, how your qualifications compare to others in similar roles, and geographical market rates. Base pay is only one part of our competitive Total Rewards package - depending on role eligibility, we offer both short and long-term incentives by way of an annual discretionary bonus plan, variable compensation plan, and equity plans.
About athenahealth
Our vision: In an industry that becomes more complex by the day, we stand for simplicity. We offer IT solutions and expert services that eliminate the daily hurdles preventing healthcare providers from focusing entirely on their patients — powered by our vision to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.
Our company culture: Our talented employees — or athenistas, as we call ourselves — spark the innovation and passion needed to accomplish our vision. We are a diverse group of dreamers and doers with unique knowledge, expertise, backgrounds, and perspectives. We unite as mission-driven problem-solvers with a deep desire to achieve our vision and make our time here count. Our award-winning culture is built around shared values of inclusiveness, accountability, and support.
Our DEI commitment: Our vision of accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all requires addressing the inequities that stand in the way. That's one reason we prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion in every aspect of our business, from attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce to maintaining an inclusive environment for athenistas, our partners, customers and the communities where we work and serve.
What we can do for you:
Along with health and financial benefits, athenistas enjoy perks specific to each location, including commuter support, employee assistance programs, tuition assistance, employee resource groups, and collaborative workspaces — some offices even welcome dogs.
We also encourage a better work-life balance for athenistas with our flexibility. While we know in-office collaboration is critical to our vision, we recognize that not all work needs to be done within an office environment, full-time. With consistent communication and digital collaboration tools, athenahealth enables employees to find a balance that feels fulfilling and productive for each individual situation.
In addition to our traditional benefits and perks, we sponsor events throughout the year, including book clubs, external speakers, and hackathons. We provide athenistas with a company culture based on learning, the support of an engaged team, and an inclusive environment where all employees are valued.
Learn more about our culture and benefits here: athenahealth.com/careers
https://www.athenahealth.com/careers/equal-opportunity
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Visa Sponsorship as an User Experience Designer
Highlight UX research and usability testing experience
Emphasize quantitative skills like A/B testing, analytics interpretation, and user research methodologies. These technical aspects strengthen specialty occupation arguments for visa petitions.
Target companies with established design teams
Larger tech firms, consulting companies, and mature startups typically have visa sponsorship infrastructure and understand the value of international UX talent.
Showcase cross-functional collaboration skills
Document experience working with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders. This demonstrates the specialized knowledge requirement for H-1B and other work visas.
Emphasize accessibility and inclusive design expertise
Specialized knowledge in WCAG compliance, accessibility audits, and inclusive design practices can strengthen your case as requiring specialized skills and education.
Consider design-adjacent roles at sponsoring companies
Product design, service design, or UX research roles may offer sponsorship opportunities with similar skill requirements but potentially less competition.
Build a portfolio demonstrating business impact
Include case studies showing measurable improvements in user engagement, conversion rates, or business metrics to justify the specialty occupation requirement.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do UX designers qualify for H-1B visa sponsorship?
Yes, UX design qualifies as a specialty occupation when the role requires a bachelor's degree in design, HCI, psychology, or related fields. The position must demonstrate specialized knowledge in user research, design systems, or interaction design. Most successful H-1B visa petitions emphasize technical skills like prototyping, usability testing, and data analysis rather than just visual design.
What degree do I need for UX designer visa sponsorship?
A bachelor's degree in design, human-computer interaction, psychology, computer science, or related fields typically satisfies visa requirements. Some employers accept degrees in unrelated fields if you have significant UX experience, using the three-years-experience-for-one-year-education rule. Portfolio strength often matters more than specific degree field for actual hiring decisions.
Which visa types work best for UX designers?
H-1B is most common, with O-1 available for senior designers with exceptional achievements or awards. E-3 visa serves Australian citizens exclusively. L-1 visa works for transfers within multinational companies. TN visa covers Canadian and Mexican citizens under specific design categories. Each has different requirements and processing timelines.
Do startups sponsor visas for UX designers?
Yes, but less frequently than established companies due to cost and complexity. Startups with venture funding or those in competitive talent markets are more likely to sponsor. Series A+ companies often have legal infrastructure for visa sponsorship. Early-stage startups may prefer contractors or remote arrangements initially.
How do design bootcamps affect visa eligibility?
Bootcamp certificates alone don't satisfy degree requirements for most work visas. However, bootcamp graduates with bachelor's degrees in any field can qualify, especially when combined with relevant work experience. The key is demonstrating that the role requires specialized knowledge that a typical college graduate couldn't perform without additional training.
How to find User Experience Designer jobs with visa sponsorship?
To find User Experience Designer jobs with visa sponsorship, use Migrate Mate, which specializes in connecting international talent with sponsoring employers. Focus on tech companies, startups, and digital agencies that commonly hire UX designers on H-1B, L-1, or O-1 visas. These employers often need specialized design skills and are experienced with the sponsorship process for creative professionals.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored User Experience Designer jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.