UX / UI Designer

Your Role and Responsibilities
Strategic Responsibilities

• Gain clarity on your overall MMT product strategy and how your product fits within it.
• Develop a deeper understanding of your portfolio ecosystem and the relationships between its products.
• Deepen your technical knowledge of your primary product.
• Develop a basic knowledge of the platform on which your Product runs.
• Attend product-oriented meetings and presentations.
• Identify improvement opportunities at the individual product level.
• Acquire knowledge and competency in UX Metrics.

Cross-Functional Responsibilities

• Be an active member of an agile squad, reviewing walls of work, creating and participating in playbacks, and providing input to sprint backlog prioritization.
• Attend client sponsor user sessions; strongly advocate for end users and a true MVP in 3IAB relationships.
• Drive a user-centric mindset among 3AIB colleagues and product teams.
• Build relationships with key stakeholders and 3iaB teams.
• Engage with and manage stakeholders in development and Product management.
• Build personal network of collaborators.
• Co-facilitate design thinking workshops with Product teams and users.

Functional Responsibilities

• Design user experiences based on scenarios and user flows.
• Create wireframes, interfaces and prototypes for design concepts based on clear understanding of users, clients, and their desired outcomes and in accordance with interaction design principles.
• Autonomously create high-fidelity screens and specs ready for development.
• Expand knowledge of and contribute to the Carbon library.
• Evaluate and understand existing design patterns.
• Lead ideation activities to solve user experience issues.
• Contribute to a product/project independently and in alignment with timeline and roadmap milestones.
• Take ownership of work product and perform daily tasks with autonomy.
• Take accountability for turning client/user insights into action.
• Ensure accessibility guidelines are upheld in designs.
• Know when and where to seek help/feedback. Perform visual audits to ensure high a quality is implemented.
• Influence the design culture of your Product team and studio.
• Onboard new team members onto your team.
• Guide, mentor and coach new hires, interns and less-experienced designers.
• Demonstrate the ability to ask effective questions.
• Attend and contribute to monthly Z Design Reviews and Community Calls
• Develop mastery in your core design discipline; expand competencies across your t-shape to better contribute to personal and team outcomes.
• Grow your internal eminence through contributions to IBM Design.
• Build your external eminence in the design world outside of your Product and IBM.
• Deepen knowledge of and experience with the EDT framework.
• Develop mid-level literacy in AI.
• Develop mid-level knowledge of IBM Experience Standards.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
Minimum Professional Requirements:

• A minimum of 2 years of experience in executing UX & UI deliverables on design projects.
• A minimum of 1 year of experience in product or service design.
• A minimum of 1 year of experience working with product managers and engineers.
• A minimum of 2 years of experience with common design tools.
• Exposure to Agile processes (e.g., SAFe), enterprise design thinking, managing allocation and prioritization discussions, and the IBM Universal Experiences.
• Portfolio of projects that demonstrate your skills as a UX/UI designer.

Required Technical Expertise

• Experienced-level UX/UI design skills, including interface design, wireframing & prototyping.
• Experienced-level competency with common design tools, such as Figma, Adobe XD, etc.
• Familiarity with design systems.
• Experience in defining and executing UX Metrics assessments.
• Competency with standard presentation programs Powerpoint & Keynote.
• Strong portfolio showing a breadth of complex, technically-oriented projects.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• None