Product Design Lead

Bangalore, IN
Design & UX
Professional

Product Design Lead

Bangalore, IN
Design & UX
Professional

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
Description

IBM App Automation and Modernization Software is responsible for creating software products that help our customers adopt and engage with our highly complex product portfolio. This role is part of IBM Hybrid iPaaS- to define a platform experience of a large portfolio of integration and API management capabilities.

As a Product Design lead on the App automation team you will be required to lead and mentor a mixed-discipline design team, Create design vision and strategy along with stakeholders, Design management and work planning with the team for maximum and best output. you will create a variety of design deliverables, drive stakeholder alignment, and demonstrate impact and influence on the product roadmap. Rigor, attention to detail, insatiable curiosity, comfort with ambiguity, and excellent time management will be critical to your success.

Responsibilities

Work closely with higher stakeholders to bring Design and business requirements together for the best user experience.
Keen on diving deep into functional and business needs
Translate actionable insights from the design research team into low and high fidelity mockups, patterns, prototypes and development-ready specifications.
Participate in conversations around common patterns, assets, and efficiencies within the product space.
Collaborate directly with your design team and developers to build out, update, and modernize software product user interfaces (while using agile methodologies).
Design business process scenarios and flows for user interfaces and demos.
Lead team stand-ups & playbacks and present design work as part of a compelling narrative to elicit buy-in from cross-disciplinary stakeholders.
Understand business problems across our customer set in order to have context for deliverables.
Share work in progress, along with giving and receiving critique.
Collaborate with a wide variety of people (design researchers, content designers, developers, product owners, etc.) across our worldwide teams
To learn, mentor and contribute to the overall culture of the team and have an innovative mindset.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

Experience (10+ years) in solving complex user problems through user interface design, creating mock-ups and prototypes (low- and high- fidelity), as well as documenting interaction patterns for product UI.
Experience with creating user scenarios for usability testing, analysis of industry trends, task analysis, workflow design, layout & composition and reporting conclusions in well-developed documents.
Experience with design tools (Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud, Collaborative tools like Mural/Miro etc.).
Strong communication, storytelling and documentation skills.
Comfortable working in a dynamic, team-based environment.
Contribute to a positive critique and feedback culture, delivering feedback with honesty and kindness and receiving feedback with openness and a growth mindset.
Portfolio of previous work must be presented incorporating UI designs and/or sketches that demonstrate an understanding of wireframing, interaction design and design best practices.
Experience with enterprise software design and delivery
Experience with working with and contributing to a design system

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

Understand modern design thinking and design trends (including responsiveness and accessibility).
Understand different industries to better gauge how design issues and users can differ across them.

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IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

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