IBM

Introduction

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

• Deliver on a customer-centered strategy by setting high-level design goals to ensure a consistent and engaging experience.
• Shape the design culture by setting a high bar for performance and design excellence, and addressing performance misalignment in a prompt and human-centered manner.
• Lead with an owner’s mentality to deliver ideas and design outcomes that differentiate our solutions in the market.
• Steward design from concept to final code.
• Own operational outcomes, managing project tasks and deliverables using agile methodologies.
• Drive alignment by collaborating with developers, marketers, product managers and other design teams to drive a shared understanding of users’ needs and behaviors.
• Pursue disciplined innovation, with emphasis on cross-functional collaboration, experimentation, and learning.
• Communicate, collaborate, and innovate — promoting positive cross-discipline product culture.
• Make data-driven decisions –from one source of truth– with a bias for understanding and action.
• Promote an environment of psychological safety for interpersonal risk-taking that allows the design team to spend more time towards high-performance goals.
• Review designs of the multi-skilled design teams, improving the work while growing the designers and supporting their career development.
• Foster a team culture of diversity and transparent collaboration.
• Advocate for and facilitate human-centered design in everyday work.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• At least 7+ years of experience that demonstrates strategy, leadership, and collaboration on complex problems.
• 5+ years experience as a design lead/people manager.
• Demonstrated evidence of managing relationships across the stakeholder spectrum (internally and externally with clients).
• Known for transformational leadership and sustained record of excellent design work and leadership.
• Experience leading teams towards the successful delivery of high-quality designs to market.
• Contributes to developing strong leadership pipeline.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience in enterprise software design and delivery
• Experience in mobile and desktop design and delivery
• Portfolio of previous work incorporating UI designs and/or sketches that demonstrate an understanding of wireframing, interaction design, visual design and design best practices.