Introduction In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.
Thomas J. Watson said it best: “Good design is good business.” Visualization is critical to discovering data-driven insights and effectively communicating that knowledge to others. Designers at IBM work to create experiences that work together, work the same, and work for our clients. Does the thought of creating the platform at the heart of solutions like Watson, Blockchain, IoT, and Security excite you? If so, read on!
Your Role and Responsibilities
As a Senior Designer, you work on professional projects and mentor less experienced designers. You’ll directly manage priorities and methods for execution. You understand design goals as they relate to project mission, brand, and IBM. Accountable for exploration and execution at the project level.
Begin to lead the implementation and facilitation of client workshops and participating in client-facing presentations. Actively participate and learn to direct others in working with clients.
Work independently to deliver innovative user experiences and market outcomes through individual contributions and multidisciplinary collaboration. Impart skills and best practices across the designer's team and studio.
Active participation and contributions to design associations and communities. Participate and co-facilitate studio events and programs. Mentor junior teammates and give skill-based training sessions.
Demonstrate strong critical thinking, problem framing, problem solving, and craft skills. Facilitate workshops and confidently applies IBM Design Thinking techniques. Understand the software development lifecycle. Independently write user stories and issues, participate in agile practices, and (where applicable) contribute to the software delivery workflow.
Practice and encourage cross-functional team collaboration. Seek new responsibilities proactively, and show maturity and diplomacy. Learn effective project management techniques in addition to individual design work.
Initiate design-focused groups and meetups. Begin to accumulate enough experiences to be sought after to provide their perspectives in their craft. Gaining experience of giving external presentations.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
Lead UX design for moderately complex projects. Work on entire projects and/or moderate to difficult individual tasks.
Demonstrate a strong understanding of Design Process, Interaction Design and Graphic Design fundamentals.
Hands on designer adept in user empathy, research, analytics, collaboration, quick prototyping and storytelling.
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
Resilience under pressure and against deadlines.
Self-starting attitude and an open outlook.
Awareness of current trends in business, design and technology.
About Business Unit
IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.
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.
Location Statement
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For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.
Being You @ IBM
IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.