Entry Level Product Designer​/Engineer - Austin, TX

We’re looking for a UI/UX Designer and Engineer who can bring some serious (and fun) design chops to our team of product designers. As a User Experience Designer and Engineer at IBM Cloud, you will work with your team to create human-centered experiences by designing the structural and informational foundation for products, services, and systems. You will help facilitate the delivery of all elements, interactions, and decisions that add value to the total user experience.

This hybrid design-and-engineering role will own end-to-end experiences across the platform, translating complex technical workflows into intuitive, consistent, and production-ready user experiences. You’ll join IBM Studios Austin, where we work in a hybrid environment and spend 3 days per week in office to collaborate, learn from each other, and build our design community.

Your role and responsibilities

• Can move fluidly from user research and interaction design to prototyping and front-end implementation, working closely with product management and engineering to accelerate delivery and improve the overall platform experience Analyze and creatively solve complex user problems through user interface design, providing a usable, intuitive, efficient experience that has high standards in functionality and aesthetics
• Work with your team to design information architecture, interactions, content, and navigation throughout the product experience, leveraging IBM's well-established design systems to create consistent and delightful client experiences
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and multiple stakeholders, including product management, engineering, sales, marketing to craft UX solutions that aligns with business objectives and user needs
• Participate with your team in agile and design thinking methodologies
• Participate in UX reviews, critiques and guilds to help develop more effective and rich designs in our community
• Demonstrate committed and respectful collaboration between members of cross-functional teams and be part of promoting a positive team culture and work environment

Required education

High School Diploma/GED

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• A portfolio of work samples that demonstrate an understanding of user-centered design, interaction design, visualizations of complex experiences and demonstration of delivering exceptional user-centered outcomes
• Familiarity of design and prototyping tools such as Figma
• Experience using modern LLM workflows to prototype designs
• Strategic thinking with ability to align design goals with business goals
• A drive to embrace technical domains and explain the problem space
• Solid understanding of fundamental design principles (typography, layout, grid systems, hierarchy, color, composition)
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills in English
• Ability to work from the office in Austin 3 days per week

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Awareness of inclusive design practices and accessibility standards
• Bachelor’s Degree in User Experience Design, Human Computer Interaction, Human Factors, Information Architecture, Computer Development, Software Development or a related field
• Familiarity with design systems, agile practices, design thinking and human-centered design principles
• Desire to make the best products in the industry hands-down
• Infectious curiosity — always looking for opportunities to learn new things
• Self-motivation, an open mind and a sense of humor

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