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Senior UX Designer

* Country:US
* State:TEXAS
* City:Austin
* Category:Design
* Required Education:High School Diploma/GED
* Position Type:Professional
* Employment Type:Full-Time
* Contract Type:Regular
* Company:(0147) International Business Machines Corporation
* Req ID:360704BR
* Travel Required:Up to 10% or 1 day a week
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* Location:Austin, TX US

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Introduction
IBM Cloud is hiring a Senior UX Designer to serve the Infrastructure as a Service business unit.

Your Role and Responsibilities
As Senior UX Designer of the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) business unit, youll contribute to every aspect of the product creation process, from brainstorming the next great innovation to tweaking pixels before launch. Youll mentor members of our team to elevate our level of craft, guide branding decisions to form a uniquely IBM product experience, and drive UX and UI consistency and quality across the large portfolio of compute, networking, storage and database offerings.

Represent design as part of the cross-functional IaaS leadership team to help set the direction for the organization, such as participating in VP-level staff meetings and status meetings.
Collaborate side-by-side with brilliant Engineers, Architects and Offering Leaders on strategy and direction, as the voice of the user. Partner with user researchers to utilize generative research in strategy development
Partner closely with junior designers to help them work through tough problems. Support them when they escalate design decisions that need backing
Actively participate in design discovery activities to help define products and features
Continuously improve the operational way we engage with cross functional teams throughout the entire product delivery process of idea to execution

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
10+ years of design industry experience
User-centered mindset: define user experience goals and design principles; translate technological, operational, and functional constraints into human-centered opportunities. Should feel comfortable leading others to use design thinking to achieve results that matter
UX: ability to understand, navigate, and design for complex technical landscapes; demonstrate proficient skill in understanding content, functions, and relationships within a given ecosystem/portfolio; demonstrate in a visual and compelling manner to drive alignment across team
Leadership: ability to collaborate across disciplines with technical architects and offering managers to align, prioritize, and manage execution

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
8+ years of hands-on work experience creating software experiences, preferably for enterprise-level software and systems
Cloud computing domain fluency: demonstrate robust understanding of the fundamentals of Cloud.
Ability to build cross-functional partnerships with technical and business partners, leading team to higher quality outcomes
Attention to detail: you care about the details and push the quality of the portfolio's work beyond the status quo.
Curiosity: consistently learning about the domain by keeping up with industry trends, competitive analysis, engaging in research, etc.

About Business Unit
Our team is dedicated to making IBM Cloud the most open and secure public cloud for business with a next-generation hybrid cloud platform, advanced data and AI capabilities, and deep enterprise expertise across 20 industries. IBM Cloud supports some of the largest enterprises in the world with their IT transformation to improve cost efficiency, flexibility and elasticity of the systems, speed to solve IT problems, audits and compliance, and long-term business continuity planning. 75 percent of existing non-cloud apps will move to the cloud within the next three years, and overall IT spend on the cloud will continue to increase. Theres a huge opportunity to impact the new era of cloud computing, starting with helping our clients improve their IT efficiency and efficacyultimately improving how the worlds largest enterprises operate and the processes and experiences millions of their customers encounter.

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Your Life @ IBM
What matters to you when youre looking for your next career challenge?

Maybe you want to get involved in work that really changes the world? What about somewhere with incredible and diverse career and development opportunities where you can truly discover your passion? Are you looking for a culture of openness, collaboration and trust where everyone has a voice? What about all of these? If so, then IBM could be your next career challenge. Join us, not to do something better, but to attempt things you never thought possible.

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About IBM
IBMs greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that progress is made through progressive thinking, progressive leadership, progressive policy and progressive action. IBMers believe that the application of intelligence, reason and science can improve business, society and the human condition. Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are the largest technology and consulting employer in the world, with more than 380,000 IBMers serving clients in 170 countries.

Location Statement
For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.

IBM intends this job to be performed entirely outside of Colorado.

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, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.