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 and develop prototype of design concepts based on clear understanding of users, clients, and their desired outcomes and in accordance with interaction design principles.
• Own the creation of low and high-fidelity designs.
• 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.
• Demonstrate leadership and expertise in your design discipline.
• Know when and where to seek help/feedback.
• 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.