Job Role : UX Designer
Does the thought of creating the platform at the heart of solutions like Watson, Blockchain, IoT, and Security excite you?
If so, read on!
Role and Responsibilities
- Leads the implementation and facilitation of client workshops and participating in client-facing presentations. Directs others in working with clients.
- Owns the delivery of innovative user experiences and market outcomes.
- Leads individual contributions and small team workstreams.
- Direct the work of junior team members.
- Develops and disseminates original intellectual capital for IBM and clients. Imparts skills and best practices across the team and studio.
- Active participation and contributions to design associations and communities. Participates and co-facilitates studio events and programs. May contribute to cross-team and open source initiatives. Mentors junior teammates, may give skill-based training sessions. Drives involvement of their team in the design community.
- Demonstrates strong critical thinking, problem framing, problem solving, and craft skills. Facilitates workshops. Assigns work where appropriate. Participates in developing new design thinking techniques as needed. Leads story, issue writing and use of agile practices within a workstream. Where applicable, helps to drive software delivery processes and practices.
- Practices and encourages cross-functional team collaboration. Seeks new responsibilities proactively, shows maturity and diplomacy, and creates opportunities for others. Leads project management in addition to individual design work.
- Initiates design-focused groups and meetups. Speaks at studio-wide events. Co-present at conferences. Accumulates enough experiences to be sought after to provide their perspectives in their craft. Gaining experience of giving external presentations.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
- Define the overall product direction and user experience for entire projects and/or complex individual tasks.
- Take an active role in defining new UX processes and standards.
- Hands on designer adept in user empathy, research, analytics, collaboration, quick prototyping and storytelling.
- Develop and demonstrate strong interpersonal, people, and project management skills.
Preferred Technical And Professional Expertise
- Resilience under pressure and against deadlines.
- Self-starting attitude and an open outlook.
- Awareness of current trends in business, design and technology.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, as well as presentation skills in order to make outstanding pitches.
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.
Location
For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.
Employment Type
Full-time
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