UX Designer

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 Role and Responsibilities
IBM Security is looking for a user experience designer who is a solid analytical thinker and can work closely with a cross-functional team to design products that are modern and user-friendly. You are comfortable working alongside other design team members as well as interacting with a variety of other product team members. You will help to enforce high-quality standards for our products and for our users, backed up by research. In the role of UX Designer, your job is to conduct research with real users so that improvements are based on real user behavior and ensure that our products are intuitive, accessible, and usable.

Responsibilities

• Solid understanding of user experience design principles with the ability to address complex design problems and provide sound design solutions
• Improve the user experience for new and existing security products
• Conduct competitive analyses of other products that operate in the same space
• Develop detailed storyboards, customer journey maps, mockups, and interactive prototypes to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas
• Collaborate with cross-functional design teams to complete projects on-time
• Use JIRA / GitHub tools to support agile methodologies and manage your projects
• Juggle projects while effectively managing timelines and expectation.

As a User Experience Designer working on IBM Security products, you’ll work with our interdisciplinary design teams, product management, and development stakeholders to create user experiences that delight our users. While you work within the design loop, we look for you to have the agility to respond to changing business requirements and users’ needs. Required education for the role is Bachelor’s degree in a design field or Computer Science or Human Computer Interaction or equivalent professional experience.”

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 2 to 5 years of IT Experience
• Portfolio of work that demonstrates an understanding of user experience design and design best practices
• Experience with design tools (Figma, Sketch, Invision, Adobe Creative Cloud, etc.)
• Comfortable working in a dynamic, team-based environment
• Strong understanding of usability and user-cantered design practices
• Passion for emerging technologies and hunger to innovate
• Excellent listening, written, verbal communication / storytelling, and documentation skills
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• Basic knowledge of HTML/CSS.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Understand how AI is being used in UX Design
• Understand different industries to better gauge how design issues and users can differ across them
• Experience designing enterprise applications
• Experience creating clickable prototypes
• Experience with user research
• Technical background.