Design & UX Senior Digital Designer Professional Yorktown Heights, US

Avature; New York (NY); On-site; USD 161,000 - 276,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company seeks a Senior Digital Designer to create user-centric software products and interfaces. You will lead design projects, collaborate with teams, and define specifications for interactive designs. This role offers a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits in a dynamic environment.

Benefits

Healthcare benefits

401(k) and Stock Purchase Plan

Generous paid time off

Training and educational resources

Employee resource groups and volunteer opportunities

Qualifications

• 6+ years of digital design experience required.
• Must have a portfolio showing previous projects.
• Experience in interactive brand agency preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design digital interfaces, components, and web experiences.
• Lead projects from conception to execution.
• Create motion studies and maintain style guides.

Skills

Typography

Information design

Usability

Motion graphics

Design systems

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

Tools

Figma

Sketch

Adobe Creative Suite

MS Office

Github

Job description

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

We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Senior Interface Designer to create and lead the design of software products and web interfaces. The professional must have proven expertise, excellence and innovative past projects. They should have a strong attention towards strategic, smart design, and a keen eye for a modernist approach to user-centric interfaces, typography, information design, usability, and motion graphics. This individual will interact with research teams, junior designers, and other IBM business units as they support the output of our team.

Responsibilities:

· Design digital interfaces, components, tools, content, and web experiences.

· Create motion studies and animations for prototyping and production.

· Define specifications, breakpoints, and states for interface components

· Adopt IBM design systems and standards, scaling them across IBM and IBM Research.

· Lead/Co-Lead projects from conception, design, to execution and advocacy.

· Bring abstract concepts to life though typography, illustration, and iconography.

· Effectively communicate conceptual ideas and detailed design rationale both verbally and visually.

· Design and maintain style guides, toolkits and other design documents.

· Speak and present to stakeholders and agency partners on design strategy.

· Work with leadership to establish priority, fidelity and delivery of tasks.

This individual must excel at:

· Distinguishing good design from bad.

· Designing experiences across digital media.

· Utilizing your knowledge of grids, typography, graphic design, color, layout, iconography, imagery, and design patterns and systems to address ambiguous, complex problems and projects.

· Actively seeking feedback and review of work; accept and act upon creative/technical direction.

· Working in a fast-paced environment, inspiring and motivating their team.

· Overseeing documentation details while ensuring quality control.

· Readdressing change with flexibility and ease.

· Collaborating well with others (e.g., stakeholders, technical teams).

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

- BFA in visual or interactive design
- 6+ years digital design experience
- Interactive or brand agency experience
- Digital portfolio showing previous projects and their contributions toward that work.

Preferred technical and professional experience

- MFA in design or HCI
- Applications: Figma, Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite (Highly proficient), MS Office (.PPT), Github, etc.
- Animation and motion design
- Web standards and processes
- Web languages and frameworks skills a plus

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Research is the organic growth engine of IBM and an innovation engine for our customers and partners. As part of this mission, IBM Research anticipates and examines 'What's Next in Computing' to ultimately create and integrate the technologies the world relies upon to solve big challenges and unlock new opportunities. We create and pioneer new markets for IBM, our partners and customers as exemplified in our ongoing quest to reach practical and large-scale quantum computing. Across IBM Research, we realize the power and potential to accelerate discovery with our partners and clients by combining the power of high performance computing, AI, and Quantum, all integrated through the hybrid cloud.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualifiedapplicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race,color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexualorientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability,neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is alsocommitted to compliance with all fair employment practices regardingcitizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

• Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being
• Financial programs such as 401(k), the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs
• Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
• Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals
• Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.

Job Title

Senior Digital Designer

Date posted

05-Jun-2025

Job ID

36890

City / Township / Village

Yorktown Heights

State / Province

New York

Country

United States

Work arrangement

Onsite

Area of work

Design & UX

Employment type

Regular

Contract type

Regular

Projected Minimum Salary per year

161,000.00

Projected Maximum Salary per year

276,000.00

Position type

Professional

No Travel

Company

(0147) International Business Machines Corporation

Shift

General (daytime)

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