Interaction Designer

Job description

Job Number

2757907

Business

GE Transportation

Business Segment

GET Transportation

About Us

GE is the world's Digital Industrial Company, transforming industry with software-defined machines and solutions that are connected, responsive and predictive. Through our people, leadership development, services, technology and scale, GE delivers better outcomes for global customers by speaking the language of industry.

GE offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE is an Equal Opportunity Employer . Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

Posted Position Title

Interaction Designer

Career Level

Experienced

Function

Digital Technology

Function Segment

Design and User Experience

Location(s) Where Opening Is Available

United States

U.S. State, China or Canada Provinces

Illinois
Georgia

City

Atlanta, Chicago

Postal Code

30305-3326

Relocation Assistance

No

Role Summary/Purpose

In this role, you will help create useful and desirable software product and service experiences for the industrial internet of things. As a Staff Interaction Designer you may lead or be an individual to contributor to multiple user experience engagements as well as work on highly complex projects that require in-depth knowledge across multiple specialized business domains.

Essential Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

·  Work with interaction designers and user interface
developers to design the visual aspects of product user interfaces
·  Contribute to a visual and interaction design system used
across GE software products
·  Communicate designs via wireframes, prototypes, guidelines,
specifications, presentations and discussions
·  Participate in discussions relative to the future direction
of design and user experience for the industrial internet of things
·  Participate in team discussions about current user
experience design projects
·  Research and evaluate emerging design, technology, industry,
and market trends
·  Ability to multitask across multiple small to medium
projects multiple projects in a cross-functional environment
·  Guides effective documentation and communication of design -
via wireframes, mockups, and requirements engineering
·  Demonstrates a strong understanding of Agile / Lean UX
methodologies

Additional Eligibility Qualifications

GE will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background investigation and drug screen.

Desired Characteristics

Technical Expertise:

·  Understands value and activities associated with getting
feedback for design ideas from users and stakeholders
·  Leverages typography, color, layout, composition and
materiality to create visual interface designs that clearly and effectively
express product capabilities and behaviors, as well as business and product
brand values
·  Creates visual design specifications and documentation that
provide detailed instructions for developers regarding typography, spacing,
color and other aspects of a products user interface
·  Creates multiple variations to a single design component to
explore how different treatments meet design requirements and brand/experience
goals
·  Constructively participates in critiques of own design ideas
and those of others
·  Designs new components to contribute to design systems,
documents intended usage
·  Creates annotated prototypes or wireframes of user interface
designs that visually and textually communicate the behavior of a software
application
·  Skilled in standard design & wireframing tools (Adobe
CC, OmniGraffle, Sketch), hand drawing and visual communication, time-based and
interactive prototyping tools (Hype, Adobe Edge, Keynote).
·  Strong working knowledge of principles of Web and application
design (HTML, CSS, JS)

Business Acumen:

·  Understands key cross-functional concepts that impact the
organization
·  Understands industry knowledge at a high level
·  Understands key principles of design thinking, what it is
and why it is important. Explores all ideas, regardless of their source
·  Understands that designing, developing and deploying
products and services for infrastructure-level domains requires attention to
the complex behavior and relationship within and between systems.

Leadership:

·  Uses generative techniques (sketching, brainstorming, etc.)
to establish a variety of possible design decisions and decision scenarios
·  Communicates clearly the purpose and desired outcomes of
meetings
·  Understands the purpose and role of UX and interaction
design within a larger collaborative work ecosystem and actively considers the
needs and constraints of other parties when making design decisions
·  Listens attentively, uses body language to signal undivided
attention in research and collaboration settings

Personal Attributes:

·  Engages with design and project-related problems and
questions in a disciplined, rigorous manner. Defines objectives, problems and
questions and gathers appropriate inputs before generating and evaluating
solutions and answers
·  Identifies when additional information is needed from
customer/manager and asks cogent and relevant questions to obtain it
·  Demonstrates a deep passion for learning and courage to push
the boundaries of one's own thinking
·  Recognizes how this approach can identify unforeseen
opportunities that add value for both our customers and the bottom-line

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Desired profile

Qualifications/Requirements

Basic Qualifications:

·  Bachelor's Degree from an accredited University or College.
·  A minimum of 6 months of professional experience in product
or interaction design

Eligibility Requirements:

·  Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. We will
not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this
job
·  Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful
completion of a background investigation and drug screen
·  Must be willing to travel 15%
·  Must be willing to work out of an office located in Atlanta,
GA, or Chicago, IL