Sr UX Interaction Designer

Job description

2931445
City

Boston
Career Level

Experienced
Relocation Assistance

Yes
Business

GE Digital
Business Segment

Digital Applications
Function

Digital Technology
Country

United States
U.S. State, China or Canada Provinces

Massachusetts
Postal Code

02210
Role Summary/Purpose

GE Digital is seeking a Sr UX Interaction Designer to join the Industrial Internet Applications team. In this role, you will help create useful and desirable software product and service experiences for the industrial internet of things. As a Sr. UX 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

·  Lead and influence business-wide discussions relative to current user experience projects and the future direction of design and user experience

·  Demonstrate a strong understanding of Agile / Lean UX methodologies

·  Guide effective documentation and communication of design – via+≠≠ wireframes, mockups, prototypes and user stories

·  Leads research and evaluation of emerging design, technology, industry, and market trends
Qualifications/Requirements

Basic Qualifications:

·  Bachelor’s Degree in Interaction, Graphic, or Industrial Design preferred or in “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math)

·  A minimum of 3-5 years of professional experience in product or service design

Essential Requirements:

·  Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. GE may agree to sponsor an individual for an employment visa now or in the future if there is a shortage of individuals with particular skills.
Desired Characteristics

Technical Expertise:

·  Understands the challenges & complexities of creating a solutions suite of micro applications (E.g., Create modular UI designs that can be configured for different user workflows & customer outcomes

·  Uses participatory design activities to understand vision, business model & assumptions & tacit knowledge about user needs & behaviors

·  Conducts research to understand user, customer & stakeholder needs, mental models & working contexts

·  Synthesizes output of stakeholder research & creates visualizations that effectively summarize key insights related to user & customer needs & behaviors, product definition

·  Skilled in standard design & wire framing tools, drawing & visual communication, time-based & interactive prototyping tools (InVision, Keynote, PowerPoint)

·  Strong rapid prototyping skills with web technologies, including CSS, HTML, & JavaScript

·  Familiarity with the capabilities of Responsive Design methodologies. Ensure all design solutions accommodate a broad range of user platforms & devices

Business Acumen:

·  Develops knowledge of industrial business domains, products, key processes, suppliers, customers & market/competitors

·  Understands key cross-functional concepts that impact the organization - Designs, develops & deploys products & services for infrastructure-level domains requires attention to the complex behavior & relationship within & between systems

·  Understands & stays up to date on the industry’s technology landscape; brings new ideas to the team. Maps industry technology trends to internal vision

·  Understands principles of design thinking, what it is & why it is important. Explores all ideas, regardless of their source

·  Works to create an Understanding of how individual people & things fit within larger structures (like systems or organizations), as well as the relationships between parts of a system & the system as a whole

Leadership:

·  Understands the purpose & role of user experience within a larger collaborative work ecosystem & actively considers the needs & constraints of other parties when making design decisions & value of a rigorous, collaborative & transparent decision-making process

·  Uses generative techniques (sketching, brainstorming, etc.) to establish a variety of possible design decisions & decision scenarios (E.g., Ability to articulate the user(s) landscape through the creation of personas & journey mapping)

·  Engages with product managers, engineers, & other members of the UX team in discussions; Uses body language to signal undivided attention in collaboration settings – Goes beyond merely presenting designs, explains the story of the rationale & benefit of design ideas

Personal Attributes:

·  Communicates effectively to ensure synergies across GE Digital product portfolio. This applies to both customer & internal project teams. Through this exchange, they should identify unforeseen opportunities that add value for both our customers & the bottom-line

·  Demonstrates emotional intelligence – the ability to extract & communicate how customer groups are thinking & feeling with a deep passion for learning & courage to push the boundaries of one’s own thinking

·  Engages with design & project-related problems & questions in a disciplined, rigorous manner. Defines objectives, problems & questions & gathers appropriate inputs before generating & evaluating solutions & answers – Through this process, they should be able to align abstract problems into our GE Digital roadmap

·  Identifies when additional information is needed from users/customers/manager & asks cogent & relevant questions to obtain it – Alternatively, acts & decides appropriately when all available information may not be possible to obtain

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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 anEqual 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.
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.