About the position
In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology. 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!
Responsibilities
- Work on professional projects and mentor less experienced designers.
- Directly manage priorities and methods for execution.
- Understand design goals as they relate to project mission, brand, and IBM.
- Accountable for exploration and execution at the project level.
- Lead the implementation and facilitation of client workshops and participate in client-facing presentations.
- Work independently to deliver innovative user experiences and market outcomes.
- Impart skills and best practices across the designer's team and studio.
- Participate and co-facilitate studio events and programs.
- Mentor junior teammates and give skill-based training sessions.
- Demonstrate strong critical thinking, problem framing, problem solving, and craft skills.
- Facilitate workshops and confidently apply IBM Design Thinking techniques.
- Understand the software development lifecycle.
- Independently write user stories and issues, participate in agile practices.
- Contribute to the software delivery workflow.
- Practice and encourage cross-functional team collaboration.
- Seek new responsibilities proactively, and show maturity and diplomacy.
- Learn effective project management techniques in addition to individual design work.
- Initiate design-focused groups and meetups.
- Accumulate experiences to be sought after to provide perspectives in their craft.
- Gain experience of giving external presentations.
Requirements
- Lead UX design for moderately complex projects.
- Demonstrate a strong understanding of Design Process, Interaction Design and Graphic Design fundamentals.
- Hands on designer adept in user empathy, research, analytics, collaboration, quick prototyping and storytelling.
Nice-to-haves
- Resilience under pressure and against deadlines.
- Self-starting attitude and an open outlook.
- Awareness of current trends in business, design and technology.
