Job Description

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!
Our Story:

We are a hybrid consulting agency. We think bigger than an agency and more creatively than a consultancy with the power to integrate the whole digital system. We are IBM iX: one of the largest digital agency networks in the world and leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Global Digital Marketing Agencies.

We are renegades and realists who blend strategy, technology and creativity to tackle every client challenge. We imagine the businesses that will shape tomorrow's world and help our clients make them real. We uncover insights from data that others can't see and deliver progressive ideas through the use of IBM Design Thinking. We ground every strategy with a focus on delivering the ultimate experience - for customers, for employees, for shareholders. Everything we do drives measurable impact at scale. For more information, visit ibm.com/ibmix.

Your Role and Responsibilities
Our Story:

We are a hybrid consulting agency. We think bigger than an agency and more creatively than a consultancy with the power to integrate the whole digital system. We are IBM iX: one of the largest digital agency networks in the world and leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Global Digital Marketing Agencies.

We are renegades and realists who blend strategy, technology and creativity to tackle every client challenge. We imagine the businesses that will shape tomorrow's world and help our clients make them real. We uncover insights from data that others can't see and deliver progressive ideas through the use of IBM Design Thinking. We ground every strategy with a focus on delivering the ultimate experience - for customers, for employees, for shareholders. Everything we do drives measurable impact at scale. For more information, visit ibm.com/ibmix.
Your Role and Responsibilities :

The Senior Product Designer will create world-class user experiences and beautiful visuals that support and reinforce our vision for exceptional user experiences. You'll embrace the challenge of turning complex data into accessible best-in-class digital products for both internal stakeholders and clients, with your end-users always in mind.

The products you create will intersect the next frontier of design, interplaying with voice, gesture, and natural language. You'll be involved in the end-to-end design process, charged with designing the full product experience, while working on a cross-functional team of designers, developers, QA, and strategists. Every engagement presents different demands and opportunities, so you'll need the flexibility to shift focus and work on anything from findings reports and sales presentations, to schematics and prototypes. As a Senior Product Designer, you thrive in an Agile development environment and manage your time and scope effectively to fit tasks into quick development sprints.

Also known as: Senior UI/UX Designer, Senior Designer.

Who You Are:

You thrive in an environment where you lead design-driven processes from discovery phases, up until the end of a product release. You embrace the challenge and excitement of testing your products with users in a continuous iterative process. If something doesn't test well with your users, you strategize with your team to understand why that is, by applying the data and findings from your testing to iterate on your work and craft an exceptional experience.

You're multi-talented: you can conduct in-depth user research, preform usability testing, produce low-fi wireframes, Hi-fidelity mocks, design systems, presentations, and other design artifacts and have a portfolio to showcase this.

You're a design geek: you're passionate about typography, data visualization, and user experience.

You're a visionary: You are eager to bring your best practices knowledge and design skills by creating design systems that are modular, repeatable, and informed by your knowledge of design best practices. You know how to work within an Agile team to lead and execute this.

You're collaborative: you work with user experience designers, visual designers, design researchers and developers to ensure your product design enhances the overall user experience.

You're a design champion: you defend design choices using previous user research, heuristics and usability standards.

You're a branding guru: you demonstrate knowledge of best practices in typography, colour theory and iconography and can work with brand and design guidelines.

You're an ambivert: working independently when needed and collaborating on cross-functional teams throughout the development process.

You're a Product Designer through-and-through: you're fluent in relevant industry design tools such as Sketch, Figma, InVision, Axure, Adobe Creative Suite/Cloud and Adobe Experience.

You're part designer, part researcher: you are able to create click-through prototypes to test and validate working hypothesis with users, and incorporate user feedback into designs.

You bring experience: you have a minimum of 3 years of experience creating user-centered designs for large scale websites and/or applications and mobile platforms.

Kudos:

You're passionate about keeping current with industry trends in all things experience design, technology, development, visual design, extended reality and applying these to your designs. You're a design evangelist and are passionate about coaching other designers.

Kudos:

You're passionate about keeping current with industry trends in all things experience design, technology, development, visual design, extended reality and applying these to your designs.

You know how to leverage your digital marketing and advertising agency or start-up experience to IBM iX.

Why You'll Thrive in IBM iX:

You build strategies around user experience, and then execute on your own advice.

You are able to leverage our eco-system partnerships like Apple, Twitter, Box and The Weather Company to accelerate innovation.

You can apply IBM Design Thinking that starts with a design-forward, user-centered process, followed by fully agile-enabled delivery.

You co-create great individual experiences with our clients, leveraging IBM's industry knowledge and design expertise.

You can network across IBM iX. You understand that you have the horsepower of IBM's Global Services behind you, the world's largest consulting services organization.

Why You'll Love IBM iX:

At the intersection of strategy, creativity and technology, we tackle the biggest business challenge: tomorrow. We're consultants and artists, makers and technologists, visionaries and strategists. Together, we co-create with our clients to do things that matter.

An entrepreneurial, team-focused culture, with constructive feedback and continuous learning opportunities, including leadership development through IBM's Leadership Academy.
Comprehensive benefits and flexible work arrangements. A rigorous focus on employee well-being and inclusion. We continue to expand our benefits and programs, offering some of the best support, guidance and coverage for a diverse employee population.

If this sounds like the place for you, we'd love to connect. Send us your portfolio.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Minimum of 3 years of experience creating user-centered designs for large scale websites and/or applications and mobile platforms.
• This role can be performed from- Ontario, Alberta, Quebec, British Columbia, New Brunswick. Candidates considered for a Montreal, QC position must be fluent in French

• 4+ years of experience creating user-centered designs for large scale websites and/or applications and mobile platforms