IBM UX Design Lead 

Ireland, Dublin 

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If you have over 6 years of experience in creating impactful design solutions, and have the leadership skills to foster a high-performing team, we’d love to hear from you.
Your Role and Responsibilities

As a UX Design Lead in IBM Automation, you will:

• Lead and mentor a team of designers, ensuring high-quality output and supporting professional growth.

• Deliver, review, and critique the UX Designs of a multi-skilled design team to ensure effective and rich designs (great interaction, supreme visual styling, consistent and appropriate use of voice and tone, etc).

• Work with UX Designers, visual designers, researchers and product managers to understand user’s needs and behaviours for the industries in which they work.

• Participate in and lead lean UX activities (in person and remote) in an Agile environment such as user/design research, interviews and workshops.

• Analyze and synthesize the findings; distilling the inherent complexity in the user’s experiences and identify the right problems to solve.

• Translate findings into usable, useful, effective and efficient user experiences.

• Clearly and quickly deliver ideas to cross-functional teams.

• Provide information verbally and visually through low and mid-fidelity renderings (starting with paper and pencil/whiteboard) and clickable prototypes.

• Test and validate working hypothesis with users through usability testing of wireframes, clickable prototypes and published product, and participate in design critique.

• Work with Visual Designers and Developers to bring concepts to life while maintaining UX best practices.

• Work on quality assurance to address any issues.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 6+ years of experience in UX design, with at least 2 years in a leadership or management role.

• Strong portfolio showcasing design work across various digital platforms (web, mobile, etc.).

• Expertise in wireframing and prototyping tools such as Sketch, Figma, Adobe XD, or similar.

• Experience with conducting user research, usability testing, and data-driven design decisions.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Passion for mentoring and fostering a creative, user-centered design culture.

• Experience with Agile or Lean methodologies

• Familiarity with web and mobile development technologies.

• Understanding of analytics and data-driven design.

• Experience working with enterprise software.

• Data visualization skills.