IBM User Experience Designer 

United States, New York, New York 

243124220

• Defining or contributing to user experience goals and applying design principles.
• Conduct user research, interviews and surveys, and use the information to create sitemaps, customer journey
• maps, wireframes, interaction hierarchies, taxonomies, and prototypes.
• Contribute to delivering elements, interactions, and decisions that add value to the total user experience.
• Command of human-centered design best practices.
• Facilitating and designing for the relational aspects across every part of the experience.
• Deep understanding of IBM’s business strategies and goals.
• Command of IBM brand’s vision, systems, and documentation.
• Help advance experience design at IBM.
• Contribute to style guides, UI toolkits, and other design documents, as needed.
• Work with senior design team members to establish priority, fidelity and delivery of tasks.
• Effectively communicate conceptual ideas and detailed design rationale both verbally and visually.
• Speak and present to range of stakeholders.
• Ensuring quality control and outcomes

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 3-5+ years of relevant experience in a digital design or user experience position.
• A deep understanding of user-centered design and strong analytical abilities.
• Knowledge of relevant technologies.
• Distinguishing good design from bad, careless from well-conceived and crafted.
• Designing experiences across media.
• Awareness and understanding of grids, typography, graphic design, color, layout, iconography, imagery,
• and design patterns and systems fundamental to the IBM Design brand.
• Problem solving and idea generation, effectively visualizing and creating concepts into the end products.
• Collaboration with others–stakeholders, technical teams, partners and other designers.
• Actively seeking feedback and review of work; accept and act upon creative/technical direction.
• Being passionate, confident, empathetic, positive and approachable.
• Attention-to-detail, strong organizational skills and time management.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Applications: Adobe Creative Suite (highly proficient), Figma, MS Office (.PPT), Github
• Animation and motion skills a plus
• Web standards a plus