Watson Health Imaging - UX Designer

Job description

Ready to join the team that transforms health care? IBM Watson Health is ushering in the next era of health care by using Cognitive Computing to tackle some of the industry's most challenging problems - like revolutionizing how doctors research cancer and identifying new drugs to treat diseases. In Watson Health Imaging, we want to help doctors even further by designing and building a next generation image-guided cognitive advisor with advanced multimodal analytics, clinical knowledge and reasoning capabilities that is qualified to assist in clinical decision making in radiology, cardiology, ophthalmology, and other areas. Our solutions are to provide a delightful experience that exhibit a deep understanding of diseases and their interpretation in multiple modalities (X-ray, Ultrasound, CT, MRI, PET, Clinical text) covering various radiology and cardiology specialties.

We have an exciting opportunity for a UX Designer on our Watson Health - Imaging design team responsible for defining the user experience of a large and complex product user experience. Watson Health Imaging (WHI) addresses all aspects of the healthcare enterprise that creates and uses images to save and improve lives while reducing the cost of healthcare. Our environment is ever changing and requires candidates who are flexible, thrive in ambiguity and can effectively collaborate across cross-functional groups and locations.

Although UX Design will be the primary role, we're looking for candidates with secondary skills in User Research also.

Responsibilities include:
·  Creating the assets necessary to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas to the larger team (wireframes, mockups, clickable prototypes, detailed annotations, etc.)
·  Delivering, reviewing and critiquing the designs of a multi-skilled design team to ensure effective and rich designs (great interaction, supreme visual styling, consistent and appropriate use of voice and tone, etc.)
·  Working with designers, researchers, offering managers, and developers to understand and communicate users' needs and behaviors to inform and shape product strategy/roadmap and create design deliverables for each release/phase/iteration.
·  Building a cross-functional team culture of transparent collaboration that results in clearly and quickly deliver ideas for feedback and iteration.
·  Creating clean and approachable data visualizations to illustrate complex analytics, trends, and data relationships.
·  Participating in lean UX activities (in person and remote) in an Agile environment such as user/design research, interviews and design thinking workshops.
·  Participating in user research activities such as usability testing and design validation; and synthesizing real user feedback back into your designs. Skills:
·  Able to focus on design detail and ascertain user value and impact as part of their software experience.
·  Creative, curious, questioning, open to take and provide critique and have a ton of initiative
·  Experience solving complex design problems for Web interactions or software solutions
·  Demonstrated ability to translate research findings into complex interaction designs that provide usable, effective and efficient experiences to users
·  Demonstrated ability to produce and enhance low-fidelity sketches and medium fidelity wireframes to facilitate communication of recommended solutions

Note: This position will be located at Watson Health Global Headquarters (75 Binney St. Cambridge, MA)
Auto req ID

87779BR
Required Education

High School Diploma/GED
Role ( Job Role )

Software Designer
State / Province

MASSACHUSETTS
Primary job category

Software Development & Support
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

Watson Health
Preferred Education

Bachelor's Degree
City / Township / Village

CAMBRIDGE
EO Statement

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

·  Bachelor's Degree in User Experience Design, Human Computer Interaction, Human Factors, Experimental Psychology, Cognitive Science or related discipline, or equivalent experience.
·  3 or more years of experience in solving complex user problems and user interface design.
·  Portfolio and work samples including user-centered design skills including visualizations of complex experiences such as stories, flows, scenarios, personas, etc. (any fidelity), sketches to mid-fidelity interactions (show your process) and clickable prototypes (any fidelity).
·  Understanding of Design principles and their application.
·  Experience designing for accessibility.
·  Examples of beginning and ending interactions (micro interactions) and/or mobile/responsive design considerations.
·  Understand limitations of web technologies including: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Angular, etc.
·  Proficiency with Adobe Creative Cloud, Bohemian Sketch, and prototyping tools, such as InVision and/or Axure
Country

United States
Preferred Technical and Professional Experience

·  Experience working with distributed teams, even better if you have international experience
·  Experience with natural language processing or machine learning technology
Secondary Job Category

Other Software Development & Support
Eligibility Requirements

None