UX / UI Designer

Job description

Introduction
As IBM Z Designers, you are part of a community of innovators, creators, and design thinkers. Our systems power the world’s most important industries, and our clients are the architects of the future. Transforming our business to deliver on that future is at the heart of our Design mission.
As an IBM Z UX/UI Designer, you will contribute to the design deliverables on your product, either as an individual contributor or part of a team, under the direction of an Advisory Designer or Design Lead. You will collaborate with cross-discipline teammates to define optimal user experiences and own the creation of low and high-fidelity design artifacts. You have good presentation and storytelling skills and can present work in an engaging, compelling way. You have a passion for technology and the capacity to learn and understand complex technical details.
With an established foundation and technical understanding of the product you’ll work on, your focus will turn to strengthening your craft skills, deepening your domain knowledge, and growing your eminence inside IBM. You will actively contribute to our design community’s health, culture, and success through your participation and involvement in community-focused initiatives. Finally, your responsibilities will grow over time to provide you with opportunities to acquire new skills and assume greater degrees of ownership over design outcomes.

Your Role and Responsibilities
Strategic Responsibilities
·  Gain clarity on your overall MMT product strategy and how your product fits within it.
·  Develop a deeper understanding of your portfolio / ecosystem and the relationships between its products.
·  Deepen your technical knowledge of your primary product.
·  Develop a basic knowledge of the platform on which your Product runs.
·  Attend product-oriented meetings and presentations.
·  Identify improvement opportunities at the individual product level.
·  Acquire knowledge and competency in UX Metrics. Cross-Functional Responsibilities
·  Be an active member of an agile squad, reviewing walls of work, creating and participating in playbacks, and providing input to sprint backlog prioritization.
·  Attend client / sponsor user sessions; strongly advocate for end users and a true MVP in 3IAB relationships.
·  Drive a user-centric mindset among 3AIB colleagues and product teams.
·  Build relationships with key stakeholders and 3iaB teams.
·  Engage with and manage stakeholders in development and Product management.
·  Build personal network of collaborators.
·  Co-facilitate design thinking workshops with Product teams and users. Functional Responsibilities
·  Design user experiences based on scenarios and user flows.
·  Create wireframes, interfaces and prototypes for design concepts based on clear understanding of users, clients, and their desired outcomes and in accordance with interaction design principles.
·  Autonomously create high-fidelity screens and specs ready for development.
·  Expand knowledge of and contribute to the Carbon library.
·  Evaluate and understand existing design patterns.
·  Lead ideation activities to solve user experience issues.
·  Contribute to a product/project independently and in alignment with timeline and roadmap milestones.
·  Take ownership of work product and perform daily tasks with autonomy.
·  Take accountability for turning client/user insights into action.
·  Ensure accessibility guidelines are upheld in designs.
·  Know when and where to seek help/feedback. Perform visual audits to ensure high a quality is implemented.
·  Influence the design culture of your Product team and studio.
·  Onboard new team members onto your team.
·  Guide, mentor and coach new hires, interns and less-experienced designers.
·  Demonstrate the ability to ask effective questions.
·  Attend and contribute to monthly Z Design Reviews and Community Calls
·  Develop mastery in your core design discipline; expand competencies across your t-shape to better contribute to personal and team outcomes.
·  Grow your internal eminence through contributions to IBM Design.
·  Build your external eminence in the design world outside of your Product and IBM.
·  Deepen knowledge of and experience with the EDT framework.
·  Develop mid-level literacy in AI.
·  Develop mid-level knowledge of IBM Experience Standards.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
Minimum Professional Requirements:
·  A minimum of 2 years of experience in executing UX & UI deliverables on design projects.
·  A minimum of 1 year of experience in product or service design.
·  A minimum of 1 year of experience working with product managers and engineers.
·  A minimum of 2 years of experience with common design tools.
·  Exposure to Agile processes (e.g., SAFe), enterprise design thinking, managing allocation and prioritization discussions, and the IBM Universal Experiences.
·  Portfolio of projects that demonstrate your skills as a UX/UI designer. Required Technical Expertise
·  Experienced-level UX/UI design skills, including interface design, wireframing & prototyping.
·  Experienced-level competency with common design tools, such as Figma, Adobe XD, etc.
·  Familiarity with design systems.
·  Experience in defining and executing UX Metrics assessments.
·  Competency with standard presentation programs Powerpoint & Keynote.
·  Strong portfolio showing a breadth of complex, technically-oriented projects.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

·  None