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Introduction

 

Seeking new possibilities and always staying curious, we are a team dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions for our customers. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our IBMers, so the door is always open for those who want to grow their career.

IBM's product and technology landscape includes Research, Software, and Infrastructure. Entering this domain positions you at the heart of IBM, where growth and innovation thrive. 

Thomas J. Watson said it best: “Good design is good business.” Design is an essential profession—an imperative thread—interwoven through the various functions and segments of the business. Design is a driver of improved outcomes, contributing to business value for our clients and for IBM. Our designers work to create experiences that work together, work the same, and work for our clients. IBMers have a growth mindset and work in teams to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. We showcase ownership and autonomy throughout the design process and seek understanding of strategic objectives to create beautiful and functional products. At IBM you will be joining us in serving as a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

Your role and responsibilities

Your Role:

You are a Visual Designer passionate about translating functions and information into emotionally compelling and desirable visual experiences. You are experienced at communicating intent and meaning through visual experiences that create understanding and inspire action. You are a problem-solver with a strong work ethic and self-motivation who brings an ownership mindset and clear point of view to your work. 

This position will allow you to demonstrate strategic leadership, technical curiosity, and tenacity.  

 

Scope of responsibilities: 


Design


  • Interpreting research insights and building an understanding of the subject matter to design for user needs and market resonance.

  • Communicating through nuanced use of colour, tone, layout, composition, imagery, typography, interactions, and motion.

  • Translating information into visual forms that make information compelling, easier to understand, and actionable.

  • Designing visual experiences that unify and exemplify the convergence of user and market insights and IBM brand/design language.

  • Designing wireframes, interactive prototypes, specifications, interaction patterns, pathways of navigation, and other artefacts to deliver human-centred products that are conscious of user context and accessibility.

  • Cultivating a healthy, collaborative, and trusting team culture where you are comfortable giving and receiving feedback and asking for direction when needed.


Cross-functional collaboration and alignment


  • Collaborating with cross-disciplinary teams of product managers, engineers, and designers in an agile environment to define strategies and lead the creation of best-in-class design patterns.

  • Cultivating a healthy, collaborative, and trusting team culture where you are comfortable giving and receiving feedback and asking for direction when needed.

  • Work independently, with a strong sense of responsibility and commitment to teamwork.
  • Work in an agile environment with dynamic schedules and priorities.
  • Demonstrate a volunteer spirit with a ‘we succeed as a team’ attitude.
  • Use excellent verbal and written communication skills.


Leadership


  • Scoping workload and planning for timely delivery of design projects, working with multiple stakeholders to recognize opportunities to improve team processes and use of time and resources.

  • Defining and implementing strategies to accomplish the design vision and mission and communicating across the organization.

 

 

 

Required education
Associate's Degree/College Diploma
Preferred education
Associate's Degree/College Diploma
Required technical and professional expertise


  • Experience (8-10 years) building user interface mockups (low- and high-fidelity), patterns, mockups, storyboards, interactive prototypes, and development-ready specifications. 

  • A portfolio of previous work must be presented incorporating UI designs and/or sketches that demonstrate an understanding of design best practices across different platforms and devices. 

  • Experience with design tools (Figma, Sketch, InVision, Adobe Creative Cloud, etc.).  

  • Great sense of typography, iconography, colour theory, and visual composition and a strong, clean visual design sense. 

  • Understand modern design thinking and design trends (including responsiveness and accessibility). 

  • Understand different industries to gauge better how design issues and users can differ across them. 

  • Excellent listening, written, and verbal communication skills as well as storytelling and documentation skills. 

  • Strong organizational skills and attention to detail. 


 

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

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.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

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 themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

 

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

 

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business. 

 

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

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