POSITION DESCRIPTION

UHG R&D is looking for an intern to investigate the ways in which marketing & UX design strategies can be applied to engage patients in disease-management programs. The intern will collaborate with and present ideas to a multi-disciplinary chronic disease team to help inform their multi-year research program.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Apply knowledge of marketing, consumer behavior, and user experience to help our core team develop a multi-year research program to improve chronic-disease care through technology, data analytics, and interventions
• Identify emerging opportunities in marketing and UX design relevant to chronic disease treatment and prevention
• Dive into the relevant literature with a critical eye, incorporate data from multiple sources, synthesize literature reviews and internal position papers based on your findings, and present findings

DESIRED ATTRIBUTES:

• Excellent oral and written communication skills. For real
• Independent thinker: challenges conventional wisdom and relentlessly seeks truth
• Curious, teachable, eager to learn: has strong opinions, weakly held
• Enjoys interactive and communicative team environment
• Collaborates effectively with others across unique skillsets
• Ethical: knows and follows standards for research / practice
• Psychologically flexible and adaptive to change
• Playful, or at least willing to tolerate eccentricities, banter, and teams nicknamed after 80's cartoons
• You'll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Currently pursuing a bachelor's degree in marketing, brand strategy, business, UX, or related field

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Currently enrolled in a relevant masters or doctorate program
• Post-college experience in an applied setting
• Experience in human-centered design
• Foundational understanding of the healthcare ecosystem, biology, and basic physiology

CAREERS AT UNITEDHEALTH GROUP. We have modest goals: Improve the lives of others. Change the landscape of health care forever. Leave the world a better place than we found it. Such aspirations tend to attract a certain type of person. Crazy talented. Compassionate. Driven. To these select few, we offer the global reach, resources and can-do culture of a Fortune 6 company. We provide an environment where you're empowered to be your best. We encourage you to take risks. And we offer a world of rewards and benefits for performance. We believe the most important is the opportunity to do YOUR LIFE'S BEST WORK.(SM) Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. UnitedHealth Group is a drug - free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

• REQUISITION NUMBER 860765

A Fortune 6 company, we're focused on helping people live healthier lives while making the health system work better for everyone. Here, we seek to empower people with the information, guidance and tools to make personal health choices. We work harder and we aim higher. We expect more from ourselves and each other. And, at the end of the day, we’re doing a lot of good for more than 142 million people worldwide.