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Associate Designer – CIC

Posted 25 Mar 2024
Work experience
1 to 3 years
Full-time / part-time
Full-time
Job function
Degree level
Required language
English (Fluent)

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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!

Your Role and Responsibilities

You believe good design and delightful interactions can turn even the most futurist technology into a wonderful user experience. As an Associate Designer, you’ll focus on customer and employee strategies that explore opportunities to improve digital innovation, addressing user needs and designing world-class digital experiences. You’ll create user experience designs and prototypes to test your ideas. You’ll share your knowledge and collaborate with your team to address ambiguous, complex problems and projects. Applying User Experience, Design Thinking, and Information Architecture methods, you’ll help to uncover user and business requirements in the context of the technical landscape. Join us, as we are a next generation services company dedicated to creating transformative ideas that get our clients into the future, first.Work you could do as an Associate Designer:

  • UX and UI work such as: creating wireframes, visual interfaces and prototypes; annotating the wireframes; collaborating with other designers, researchers, consultants and developers; making sure the interaction is getting recorded and addressed correctly.
  • Conduct user research leveraging IBM Enterprise Design Thinking and do direct user research as part of managing a project
  • Lead client interactions related to design thinking workshops
  • Supporting a Senior Designer on UX and UI production tasks, getting and incorporating the feedback, and working very closely with developers and testers on a day-to-day basis.
  • Visual Design work, such as creating delightful concepts and exploring art of the possible, creating mock-ups and prototypes from sketches and wireframes, working closely with clients, senior designers, front-end developers to implement dynamic human-centered digital solutions.
  • Create storyboards, layouts, impactful presentations, graphics, data visualizations, and other design artifacts in preparation for client meetings or product development.
  • Participate in design workshops, incorporate input from multiple stakeholders, communicate conceptual ideas and design rationale, outline digital experiences screen by screen, working with front-end development teams.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

  • Professional or University-based design experience with a portfolio representing design artifacts and associated projects
  • Experience working with design tools such as Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, XD), Sketch, InVision, as well as communication and workflow platforms like Slack, JIRA, Workfront ·Understanding of the principles and methods for human-centered design including user research, rapid ideation and iteration, prototyping, and user testing.
  • Demonstrated accountability and adaptability with willingness to readily and voluntarily take ownership of highly challenging tasks and problems, even beyond initial scope of responsibility
  • Thorough, design-focused, and analytical with the capability to apply logic to solve problems
  • Possesses deep empathy for users and their needs, humility to recognize the limits of assumptions, and boldness in the conception of solutions
  • Effective interpersonal skills with ability to collaborate and work with individuals, strengthening relationships to achieve win-win solutions
  • Ability to communicate design approaches and complex situations clearly and simply (via voice, words, and pictures), listen actively, and convey difficult messages in a positive manner

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

  • A passion for innovative ideas, coupled with the ability to understand and assimilate different points of view
  • Background in Human-Computer Interaction / User Experience methodologies, Graphic Design, Visual art desired

The IBM Services Centers, are wholly owned subsidiaries of IBM. In 2013, IBM opened 3 centers in Europe - France (Lille), Germany (Magdeburg) and Netherlands (Groningen). In January 2015, IBM opened its fourth centre in Leicester, UK.
As part of IBM’s globally integrated capability network, the Centers have been created to deliver an industry-leading range of innovative technology services and…


The IBM Services Centers, are wholly owned subsidiaries of IBM. In 2013, IBM opened 3 centers in Europe - France (Lille), Germany (Magdeburg) and Netherlands (Groningen). In January 2015, IBM opened its fourth centre in Leicester, UK.

As part of IBM’s globally integrated capability network, the Centers have been created to deliver an industry-leading range of innovative technology services and provide deep technical and industry expertise to local IBM clients across public and private sectors.

The rise of Big Data, analytics, cloud and mobile technologies is changing the way companies work and interact with their customers. To meet this increasing demand for flexible software capabilities that harness the benefits of these new technologies, the Centers provide high value application development, application maintenance and systems integration services for a range of leading businesses.

For our employees, the centers have the atmosphere of an entrepreneurial start-up, but with the support of the world's largest IT and consulting services company. The work environment is fast paced and dynamic, buzzing with innovation and invention. The atmosphere is more like a campus than a workplace. Here, people co-operate and learn from each other in an open and collaborative culture.

The Centers offer a unique experience for talented and ambitious graduates and professionals who are keen to build their skills fast. It’s a place for people with real enthusiasm and a passion for IT. People who are always prepared to challenge and ask questions. People who want to explore what’s possible.

IT
Groningen
200 employees