Designer

IBM; Camden Town; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in the United Kingdom is seeking a Designer to join their worldwide design organization for AI Applications. The ideal candidate will collaborate closely with a globally distributed team, facilitating design thinking workshops and creating user interfaces that empower users through engaging experiences. A strong portfolio and proficiency in design tools are essential for this role.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in creating visually compelling artifacts and mock-ups.
• Must have a portfolio showcasing previous design work.
• Knowledge of design principles including typography, layout, and color theory.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with design team members to build and modernize software interfaces.
• Plan and moderate design thinking workshops.
• Convert insights from research into mock-ups and prototypes.
• Collaborate across teams to solve complex UI problems.

Skills

Collaborative Development

Visual Design Skills

Design Tools Proficiency

Scenario Design

UI Problem Solving

Workshop Facilitation

Tools

Sketch

InVision

Adobe Creative Cloud

Job description

Responsibilities and Qualifications

• Collaborative Development: Work closely with design team members and developers to build, update, and modernize software product user interfaces using agile methodologies across a globally distributed team.
• Design Thinking Workshops: Plan, lead, and moderate virtual and in-person design thinking workshops.
• Translate Insights into Designs: Convert actionable insights from the design research team into low and high-fidelity mock-ups, patterns, prototypes, and development-ready specifications.
• Create Visual Assets: Develop high-fidelity mock-ups, graphics, design patterns, prototypes, and demos to enhance user interfaces.
• Pattern Collaboration: Participate in discussions regarding common patterns, assets, and efficiencies within the product space.
• Scenario Design: Design business process scenarios and flows for user interfaces and demonstrations.
• Feedback Loop: Share work-in-progress designs and actively engage in giving and receiving constructive critique.
• Business Context: Understand business problems across our customer base to provide context for deliverables.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Collaborate with various stakeholders such as design researchers, content designers, developers, product owners, etc., across worldwide teams.
• UI Problem Solving: Ability to solve complex user problems through user interface design, creating mock-ups, prototypes, and documenting interaction patterns.
• Design Tools Proficiency: Demonstrated experience with design tools such as Sketch, InVision, Adobe Creative Cloud, etc.
• Visual Design Skills & Design Principles: Proficient in creating visually compelling artifacts, icons, high fidelity mock-ups, and other graphical elements for user interfaces. Knowledge of design principles including typography, layout, imagery, colour theory, and creating efficiencies in visual design workflows.
• Workshop Facilitation: Knowledge in planning and moderating design thinking workshops.
• Portfolio Presentation: Must have a portfolio showcasing previous design work.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Knowledge/Experience of working in Open Source communities: Appreciation for dealing with the conflicting requirements of developing software that is to be used both in a commercial product, but also forms part of an open source project with stakeholders outside IBM.
• Familiarity with the PatternFly design system: existing applications have been built using PatternFly, and developers will be looking to the designer to help them with aligning the visual ideas with an implementation in PatternFly.

A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into solutions.

Seeking new possibilities and always staying curious, we are a team dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions for our customers. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our IBMers, so the door is always open for those who want to grow their career. IBM's product and technology landscape includes Research, Software, and Infrastructure. Entering this domain positions you at the heart of IBM, where growth and innovation thrive.

Your role and responsibilities: Join IBM's worldwide design organization for AI Applications, where our mission is to empower users to do their best work through intuitive and visually engaging interfaces. You will be working as part of Middleware Integration, where a knowledge of Message-Oriented-Middleware will prove a strong advantage. As a Designer, you'll play a crucial role in creating end-to-end customer experiences for AI-enabled solutions that help businesses make informed, data-driven decisions.