Your Role and ResponsibilitiesWe are looking for a talented designer to help our creative design team deliver great end-to-end customer experiences. The team you’ll be joining is part of the worldwide design organization for IBM Data & AI – a part of IBM that is collectively responsible for software products focused on AI-enabled solutions that assist our customers make more informed and data-driven decisions about how to manage their business and services.
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
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
- Experience (5+ 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 (Figma, 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.