Join IBM's worldwide design organization for Cloud FinOps, where our mission is to empower users to do their best work through intuitive and visually engaging interfaces. As a Designer, you'll play a crucial role in connecting Cloudability with other products in the IBM portfolio, building bridges, and creating a single, cohesive experience greater than the sum of its parts. We’re seeking a design leader with deep expertise in user research, strategic thinking, and independent execution. In this role, you will drive the design vision and champion user-centric innovation across the product, ensuring every interaction delivers value and impact.
Your role and responsibilities
* Own End-to-End Design Execution: Deliver wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs that provide seamless and impactful user experiences. Monitor and evaluate the user experiences post-delivery.
* Collaborative Development: Work closely with design team members and developers to build, update, and modernize software product user interfaces using agile methodologies.
* Conduct User Research: Plan and execute research initiatives to uncover insights, validate ideas, and inform design decisions at every stage of development such as usability testing, user interviews, survey creation, etc.
* Translate Insights into Designs: Convert actionable insights from the design research team into low and high-fidelity mock-ups, patterns, prototypes, and development-ready specifications.
* Feedback Loop: Share work-in-progress designs and actively engage in giving and receiving constructive critique.
* Advocate for Design Excellence: Promote user-centered design principles across teams, fostering a culture of innovation and empathy.
* Business Context: Understand business problems across our customer base to provide context for deliverables.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
* Product Design Problem Solving: Ability to solve complex user problems through UX & UI design, creating mock-ups and prototypes, and documenting interaction patterns.
* Design Tools Proficiency: Demonstrated experience with design tools such as Figma, Sketch, Mural, Adobe Creative Cloud, etc.
* Design Principles: Knowledge of design principles including typography, layout, imagery, color theory, and creating efficiencies in visual design workflows.
* Collaborative Communicator: Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with a history of success working in cross-functional teams.
* Leadership Experience: Ability to lead design initiatives and drive strategy across complex projects.
* Portfolio Presentation: Must have a portfolio showcasing previous design work.
Preferred technical and professional experience
* Design Best Practices: Understanding of modern design thinking and design best practices, including but not limited to responsiveness and accessibility for complex B2B applications.
* Attention to Detail: Appreciation for detail, ensuring every pixel and interaction is meticulously crafted.
* Research Expertise: Skilled in planning, conducting, and applying user research to inform and elevate design outcomes.
* Domain Knowledge: Experience with enterprise SaaS products or IT financial management is a plus.
* Independent and Proactive: Self-driven with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver exceptional results with minimal supervision.
* Strategic Thinker: Capable of crafting a design vision that aligns with both user and business needs while maintaining a focus on long-term impact.
* Mentorship and Guidance: Provide mentorship to junior designers and contribute to the growth of a collaborative and innovative design culture.
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At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.
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Job Title: Senior Product Designer
Job ID: 21113
City: Dublin
Country: Ireland
Work arrangement: Hybrid
Area of work: Design & UX
Employment type: Regular
Position type: Professional
No Travel
Company: (1679) Software Labs Campus Unlimited Company
Shift: General (daytime)
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