Introduction
A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer’s challenges into solutions.
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.
Your Role And Responsibilities
As a Product Designer, you will be responsible for helping establish and drive design for some of our core products. You should enjoy solving complex problems and delivering simple and intuitive solutions to a technical customer. This is an exciting opportunity as you will be a critical member of the team.
What you will do
- Design intuitive, aesthetically pleasing interfaces for complex vector database systems
- Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to translate technical requirements into compelling developer experiences
- Go beyond the user interface and help design our broader Developer experience, with inputs to ecosystem integrations, docs, sample apps, and our API
- Advocate for high quality design standards and consistency across developer touchpoints
- Work directly with external developers to intimately understand their workflows, and what gets them into flow states
- Rapidly iterate on design solutions in a fast-moving startup environment
Preferred Education
Master's Degree
Required Technical And Professional Expertise
- You have a robust portfolio showcasing excellence in visual and interaction design
- You consider yourself an full stack designer–capable of working in early stage discovery through measuring product success
- You’re equally adept working with a team, and operating autonomously
- You’ve got a technical background (ideally in developer tools), letting you design effectively for technical, sophisticated audiences
- You thrive in dynamic startup environments where the pace of change is as fast as the technology evolves
- You get energy from talking to your users
- Understanding of when to make short-term tradeoffs to ship early, and when to refine the details
- An excellent communicator who understands when to use async communication, and when to make decisions in real-time