Department: Product Design
Project Location(s): Bangalore
Education: Engineering
- 10+ years of experience in the UX field, preferably working in a product environment.
- Design strategy, leadership, design execution are major roles.
- Develop an in-depth understanding of workflows by planning and performing research on users, clients, and domains.
- Co-own business goals for a feature set or a user group with partners from Product and Engineering organizations.
- Work with product and engineering managers to set a strategic direction for key initiatives and define the impact of this strategy on individual Scrum teams.
- Lead the creation of a long-term vision for your product area, as well as pragmatic plans for step-by-step execution.
- UX workflow projects that can guide detailed Agile design and development.
- Align and inspire innovation efforts, influencing the planning of the product roadmap in the product area concerned.
- Ensure that the design work is done using behavioral data that focuses on user-centric product success indicators.
- Facilitate product and engineering teams by creating deep empathy for our users
- Empower, motivate and support teams to execute and achieve meaningful results
- Define and promote design process improvements and agile
- Provide thought leadership on emerging design practices, both internally and externally
- Identify and effectively manage user-centered issues
- Plan and facilitate identification and problem-solving workshops.
- Create low to high fidelity sketches to communicate concepts and ideas
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams throughout the planning, design, and agile development process to deliver a published product that meets design objectives.
- Work with your team to ensure that product features meet UX quality standards for workflow, interaction design, and microcopy.
- Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree in design, human-computer interaction, cognitive psychology, computer science, commerce or a related field
- Extensive experience of animation, synthesis and taking into account the results of research on users.
- In-depth knowledge of UX practices in the Agile software development process, including UX ideation, design techniques, and integration of user research and evaluation tests.
- Expertise Leveraging Design Thinking Tools and Techniques to Drive Innovation
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Proficient to influence colleagues and project management without direct authority.
- Able to manage ambiguities, changes and uncertainties, focusing on available information and making the right decisions in time for the work to advance effectively
- Takes the appropriate risks by analyzing the costs and benefits of different solutions
- Adaptable to the ever-changing needs of a dynamic company with flexibility and willingness to engage in any aspect of the work to help the team achieve results.
- Enthusiastic to learn new spaces of problems, with the ability to immerse oneself deeply in a problem, to quickly develop an understanding and to produce actionable ideas.
- Blossoms in a highly collaborative and cross-functional environment