UX Designer

Job description

IBM Global Business Services (GBS) helps our clients fundamentally redesign experiences to create new sources of value, digitally reinvent their operations for great efficiency and transform their entire enterprises through cognitive. We invite you to consider joining IBM's global reach, outcome-focused methodologies, domain skills and deep industry expertise that are helping transform the way we live and work.
IBM's state-of-the-art Client Innovation Centre (CIC) opened in Nova Scotia in March 2013 and is the first of its kind in Canada. The Centre weaves together IBM's business insights and industry-leading software portfolio and is ideally suited for any client that needs flexible access to emerging or niche skills that may not be cost effective to grow internally. In addition, our focus on our team is unparalleled as demonstrated by the following:
·  The CIC NS is one of IBM's highest performing delivery centres worldwide – for retention, client satisfaction and utilization. Our employees are empowered to stay and grow within IBM.
·  More than 100 of our employees received promotion in 2015 alone. Structured career development programs are helping us grow our future leaders from within.
·  We are very focused on continuous skill development – staff training is our third largest annual Centre investment. Employees are immersed in a culture of learning and constant growth.
·  Investment in key partnership with universities, government and private sector groups which has resulted in IBM having a key influencing role in Nova Scotia's ICT industry, especially in talent development.
We are seeking a User Experience (UX) Designer with a proven record of delivering irresistible solutions which address our customers'most challenging business problems and opportunities. The best candidate will have experience collaborating effectively with Product Management and Engineering stakeholders in agile and lean delivery methodologies. The candidate must demonstrate leadership, technical curiosity, and tenacity to partner with some of the leading technologists in the field of cloud and cognitive computing.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
·  Collaborate with designers, developers and product managers to create brilliant interface and user experience solutions - from concept to delivered product
·  Work with UX Designers, Researchers and Product Managers to understand user's needs and behaviors for the industries in which they work
·  Participate in lean UX activities (in person and remote) in an Agile environment such as user/design research, stakeholders interviews, and design 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 wire frames, 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
·  Understand how to balance an insanely high personal bar of performance, yet still remember to have fun
·  Please provide a link to your portfolio on their resume
Auto req ID

271738BR
Required Education

Bachelor's Degree
Role ( Job Role )

Designer
State / Province

NOVA SCOTIA
Primary job category

Design & Offering Management
Company

(0026) IBM Canada Limited - IBM Canada Limitee
Contract type

Regular
Employment Type

Full-Time
ERBP

Yes
Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?

No
Travel Required

Up to 10% or 1 day a week
IBM Business Group

GBS
Preferred Education

Master's Degree
City / Township / Village

HALIFAX
Being You @ IBM

IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise

·  3+ years as a UX or Product Designer,
·  3+ years experience with Sketch/InVision and/or Adobe CC,
·  3+ years experience creating user stories, personas, wireframes, and prototypes
Country/Region

Canada
Preferred Technical and Professional Experience

·  5+ years as a UX or Product Designer,
5+ years experience with Sketch/InVision and/or Adobe CC,
5+ years experience creating user stories, personas, wireframes, and prototypes

Secondary Job Category

Design
Eligibility Requirements

Must be eligible/legally entitled to work in Canada.

Position Type

Professional
Early Professional Track

Not Applicable - Professional Hire
Location Statement

This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. If you are a Foreign National from any of the following US sanctioned countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria) on a work permit, you are not eligible for employment in this position.
Introduction

Thomas J. Watson said it best: “Good design is good business.” Visualization is critical to discovering data-driven insights and effectively communicating that knowledge to others. Designers at IBM work to create experiences that work together, work the same, and work for our clients. Does the thought of creating the platform at the heart of solutions like Watson, Blockchain, IoT, and Security excite you? If so, read on!
Your Life @ IBM

What matters to you when you're looking for your next career challenge?

Maybe you want to get involved in work that really changes the world? What about somewhere with incredible and diverse career and development opportunities – where you can truly discover your passion? Are you looking for a culture of openness, collaboration and trust – where everyone has a voice? What about all of these? If so, then IBM could be your next career challenge. Join us, not to do something better, but to attempt things you never thought possible.

Impact. Inclusion. Infinite Experiences. Do your best work ever.
About Business Unit

IBM Services is a team of business, strategy and technology consultants that design, build, and run foundational systems and services that is the backbone of the world's economy. IBM Services partners with the world's leading companies in over 170 countries to build smarter businesses by reimagining and reinventing through technology, with its outcome-focused methodologies, industry-leading portfolio and world class research and operations expertise leading to results-driven innovation and enduring excellence.
About IBM

IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that progress is made through progressive thinking, progressive leadership, progressive policy and progressive action. IBMers believe that the application of intelligence, reason and science can improve business, society and the human condition. Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are the largest technology and consulting employer in the world, with more than 380,000 IBMers serving clients in 170 countries.