As IBM Z Designers, you are part of a community of innovators, creators, and design thinkers. Our systems power the world's most important industries, and our clients are the architects of the future. Transforming our business to deliver on that future is at the heart of our Design mission.
Role Description:
As an IBM Z Designer, your focus will be on meeting individual and team objectives, learning your craft, contributing to the design of a product and learning about IBM and IBM Design practices. Generally, your efforts will be concentrated around a single product in your business area, with guidance and feedback from a more senior designer or design leader. You will also contribute to the design community by supporting community activities, sharing, learning or maintaining a part of the community operation.
As designers, we focus on ensuring the experiences we create meet the needs of our customers and end users and strive for design excellence in our work. You will apply a user-centered perspective to your design work and advocate for the customer / end user in all interactions with your teammates and colleagues. At times you may also engage with customers or other users of the product in the design process.
Job Duties:
Key/Strategic Responsibilities
•Grow domain knowledge by learning the value proposition of your product, its market position, the basics of its technologies and how it's used by our customers.
•Develop domain fluency needed to contribute ideas that differentiate your product in the market.
•Attend and participate in design and product-oriented activities, such as stand-ups, Town Halls, product demos or design critiques.
•Find and apply relevant industry references/trends.
•Identify improvement opportunities at the individual product level.
Cross-Functional Responsibilities
•Contribute to the design of a product by advocating for the user experience and value.
•Collaborate with research to understand core problems being solved in design.
•Learn about the org structure and key stakeholders of your PM and dev teams
•Seek and provide feedback on outcomes to your entire team.
•Support use of design thinking across the team.
•Communicate with other designers and your 3iab team about your project status.
•Attend and participate in design reviews and playbacks to share experience design and related artifacts.
•Understand how your work fits into the department mission, strategy, and vision.
Functional Responsibilities
•Execute and expand on established UX flows.
•Create wireframes, user flows and prototypes with oversight from design lead.
•Adjust designs based on formal and informal feedback
•Participate in concept ideation, informed by an understanding of users, clients, and their desired outcomes.
•Adapt work and processes according to guidance and direction from design leads.
•Strengthen your craft skills in your discipline through learning, mentorship, and producing.
•Expand competencies across t-shape to better contribute to personal and team outcomes.
•Acquire Enterprise Design Thinking fluency and infuse practices into work.
•Develop foundational knowledge in the technologies needed for your product/org, such as AI.
•Develop entry-level knowledge of IBM Experience Standards.
•Familiarity with accessibility guidelines and principles (e.g., WCAG)
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