Design & UX IBV Visual Designer Professional SG

Since 2002, the IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV) has collaborated with industry professionals, leading-edge clients, academics, and a wide range of IBM consultants and subject matter experts around the world to deliver thought-provoking insights to business leaders inside and outside IBM. Our thought leadership reports use data-driven research and expert analysis to address the most pressing industry and marketplace challenges and opportunities of our time.

And we want you to be a part of it.

Your role and responsibilities

The IBV is seeking a Visual Designer to add to our design team and work alongside visual, UX, and content designers to develop research reports, maintain the IBV website, and develop interactive content for an audience of global business professionals. The ideal candidate will have experience concepting and designing content in multiple media—with a primary focus on designing the IBV’s longform studies for distribution in various print and digital formats.

You’ll have the opportunity to function as a key member of a multi-disciplinary squad focused on using design practices to create and iterate on a variety of experiences.

For this role, you’ll be responsible for the visual design of individual research reports for print as well as assets that support the enablement and activation programs for those studies.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

None

Required technical and professional expertise

Responsibilities:

• · Create world-class customer experiences and beautiful visuals that support and reinforce IBM’s vision, brand, and business objectives across all platforms.
• · Translate conceptual strategy into persuasive executions, ideas, and concepts in a variety of creative ways, while maintaining visual appearance, usability, and brand continuity.
• · Produce mood boards, storyboards, design briefs, visual language guidelines, visual compositions, and other artifacts required to develop and evolve user experience designs.
• · Design and produce compelling visual reports that communicate key narratives with supported visuals, data visualizations, illustration, information hierarchy, and typographic excellence.

Skills required

• · Demonstrated ability to produce quick, low-fidelity sketches and sleek, high-fidelity visuals on tight schedules with a ton of initiative
• · Demonstrated knowledge of best practices in typography, color theory, and iconography
• · Experience in longform layout design, print design, and illustration
• · Knowledge of accessible designs
• · Ability to work with brand and design guidelines
• Natural curiosity and comfort with ambiguity accompanied by an extreme bias toward making and a willingness to learn
• · Outstanding storytelling and presentation skills
• · Exceptional attention to detail and keen eye for aesthetic design and layout
• · Work with cross-functional teams and demonstrate a strong sense of collaboration

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.

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…