Designer

Job Description

About Company

Join IBM’s worldwide design organization for AI Applications. The core mission of this organization is to empower users to achieve their best work by providing intuitive and visually engaging interfaces. The team focuses on creating AI-enabled solutions that enable businesses to make informed, data-driven decisions.

Job Description: Designer

As a Designer at IBM, you will play a crucial role in crafting end-to-end customer experiences for AI-enabled solutions. Your work will directly contribute to helping businesses make informed, data-driven decisions.

Your Role And Responsibilities will include:
• Translate Insights into Designs: Converting actionable insights derived from the design research team into various design artifacts, including low and high-fidelity mock-ups, design patterns, interactive prototypes, and detailed development-ready specifications.
• Create Visual Assets: Developing a range of visual elements such as high-fidelity mock-ups, graphics, specific design patterns, prototypes, and demonstrations to significantly enhance user interfaces.
• Pattern Collaboration: Actively participating in discussions focused on identifying and establishing common design patterns, shared assets, and efficiencies across the product space.
• Collaborative Development: Working in close collaboration with other design team members and developers to build, update, and modernize user interfaces for software products, primarily utilizing agile methodologies.
• Scenario Design: Designing comprehensive business process scenarios and user flows, specifically for user interfaces and product demonstrations.
• Feedback Loop: Regularly sharing work-in-progress designs and actively engaging in a culture of constructive critique, both giving and receiving feedback.
• Business Context Understanding: Developing a deep understanding of the diverse business problems faced by IBM’s customer base to provide essential context for all deliverables.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Collaborating with a wide array of stakeholders, including design researchers, content designers, developers, and product owners, across various worldwide teams.
• Design Thinking Workshops: Planning, leading, and moderating both virtual and in-person design thinking workshops to foster innovation and problem-solving.

Preferred Education
• A Bachelor’s Degree is preferred for this role.

Required Technical And Professional Expertise
• UI Problem Solving: Demonstrated ability to solve complex user problems through effective user interface design, which includes creating mock-ups, prototypes, and documenting interaction patterns.
• Design Tools Proficiency: Proven, hands-on experience with industry-standard design tools such as Figma, Sketch, InVision, Adobe Creative Cloud, among others.
• Visual Design Skills: Proficiency in creating visually compelling artifacts, including icons, high-fidelity mock-ups, and various other graphical elements essential for user interfaces.
• Design Principles: A solid knowledge of fundamental design principles, including typography, layout, imagery, color theory, and the ability to create efficiencies in visual design workflows.
• Communication Skills: Possessing proven communication skills and the ability to effectively understand and address customer requirements.
• Dynamic Environment: Comfort and adaptability when working in a dynamic, fast-paced, and team-based environment.
• Portfolio Presentation: A strong portfolio showcasing previous design work is a mandatory requirement.

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience
• Design Trends Awareness: An understanding of current design trends, including responsiveness, accessibility, and the application of AI in design.
• Attention to Detail: A keen appreciation for detail, ensuring every pixel and interaction is meticulously crafted.
• Workshop Facilitation: Knowledge and experience in planning and moderating design thinking workshops.