User Experience Designer

Introduction
Software Developers at IBM are the backbone of our strategic initiatives to design, code, test, and provide industry-leading solutions that make the world run today - planes and trains take off on time, bank transactions complete in the blink of an eye and the world remains safe because of the work our software developers do. Whether you are working on projects internally or for a client, software development is critical to the success of IBM and our clients worldwide. At IBM, you will use the latest software development tools, techniques and approaches and work with leading minds in the industry to build solutions you can be proud of.

Your Role and Responsibilities
We are looking for a talented designer to help our creative design team deliver great end-to-end customer experiences.
Responsibilities

• Translate actionable insights from the design research team into low and high fidelity mockups, patterns, prototypes and development-ready specifications.
• Participate in conversations around common patterns, assets and efficiencies within the product space.
• Collaborate directly with your design team and developers to build out, update and modernize software product user interfaces (while using agile methodologies).
• Design business process scenarios and flows for user interfaces and demos.
• Lead team stand-ups & playbacks and present design work as part of a compelling narrative to elicit buy-in from cross-disciplinary stakeholders.
• Understand business problems across our customer set in order to have context for deliverables.
• Share work in progress, along with giving and receiving critique.
• Collaborate with a wide variety of people (design researchers, content designers, developers, product owners, etc.) across our worldwide teams.
• Plan, lead and moderate virtual and in-person design thinking workshops.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience (3+ years) in solving complex user problems through user interface design, creating mockups and prototypes (low- and high- fidelity), as well as documenting interaction patterns for product UI.
• Experience with creating user scenarios for usability testing, analysis of industry trends, task analysis, workflow design, layout & composition and reporting conclusions in well-developed documents.
• Experience with design tools (Sketch, InVision, Adobe Creative Cloud, etc.).
• Strong communication, storytelling and documentation skills.
• Comfortable working in a dynamic, team based environment.
• An awesome and positive attitude.
• Portfolio of previous work must be presented incorporating UI designs and/or sketches that demonstrate an understanding of wireframing, interaction design and design best practices.
  

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Understand modern design thinking and design trends (including responsiveness and accessibility).
• Understand different industries to better gauge how design issues and users can differ across them.
• Experience planning & moderating design thinking workshops
• Experience working in the following industries or designing enterprise applications for the following industries: automotive, aerospace, financial services, medical devices.

About Business UnitSoftware Developers at IBM are the backbone of our strategic initiatives to design, code, test, and provide industry-leading solutions that make the world run today - planes and trains take off on time, bank transactions complete in the blink of an eye and the world remains safe because of the work our software developers do. Whether you are working on projects internally or for a client, software development is critical to the success of IBM and our clients worldwide. At IBM, you will use the latest software development tools, techniques and approaches and work with leading minds in the industry to build solutions you can be proud of.

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