About the role
We are looking for a talented early professional designer to help our creative design team deliver great end-to-end customer experiences. The team you'll be joining is a product design team in IBM Software 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 build, manage and accelerate their business and services.
Responsibilities
• Translate actionable insights from the design research team into low and high-fidelity mock-ups, patterns, prototypes, and development-ready specifications.
• Participate in conversations around common patterns, assets, and efficiencies within the product space.
• Collaborate directly with your cross-functional product team including other design disciplines 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 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 education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
* Degree in User Experience (UX) Design or an equivalent qualification.
* Experience (1 to 3 years) in solving complex user problems through user interface design, creating mock-ups 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, Mural, Adobe Creative Cloud, etc.) and a growth mindset to continuously upskill.
* Strong communication, storytelling, and documentation skills.
* Comfortable working in a dynamic, team-based and hybrid environment.
* An awesome and positive can-do attitude.
* Portfolio of previous work must be presented incorporating UI designs and/or sketches that demonstrate an understanding of wireframing, interaction (UX) design, and design best practices.
Preferred technical and professional experience
Understanding of modern design thinking and design trends (including AI, responsiveness, and accessibility).
• Understanding of B2B software development process.
• Industry background to better gauge how design issues and users can differ across industries.
About the company
IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.
Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.
At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.
