Sr UX Interaction Designer

Job Description Summary

GE Vernova is seeking a Sr UX Interaction Designer to join the Manufacturing Software team. In this role, you will help create useful and desirable software product and service experiences for our enterprise portfolio of manufacturing software solutions. As a Sr UX Interaction Designer, you may lead or be an individual to contributor to multiple user experience engagements as well as work on highly complex projects that require in-depth knowledge across multiple specialized business domains.

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities:

In this role, you will:

• Lead and influence business-wide discussions relative to current user experience projects and the future direction of design and user experience
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of Agile / Lean UX methodologies
• Guide effective documentation and communication of design - via wireframes, mockups, prototypes, and user stories
• Champions user research and constantly evaluates of emerging design concepts, technology, industry, and market trends

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Interaction, Graphic, or Industrial Design preferred or in “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math)
• A minimum of 3-5 years of professional experience in product or service design

Eligibility Requirements:

• Must be willing to travel

Desired Characteristics:

Technical Expertise:

• Uses participatory design activities (e.g., paper (or digital) prototype co-creation, card sorting) to understand vision, business model and assumptions and tacit knowledge about user needs and behaviors.
• Understands how to work within an established design system and how to extend and an establish new standards in a collaborative environment.
• Conducts user research to understand user needs, mental models and working contexts
• Synthesizes output of stakeholder research & creates visualizations that effectively summarize key insights related to user and customer needs and behaviors, product definition.
• Creates annotated prototypes or wireframes of user interface designs that visually and textually communicate the behavior of a software application.
• Skilled in standard design & wireframing tools (Figma, Adobe CC, Balsamiq), hand drawing, whiteboarding, and visual communication, time-based and interactive prototyping tools (Figma Prototyping, Miro, Smaply).

Business Acumen:

• Develops knowledge of industrial business domains, products, key processes, suppliers, customers, and market/competitors.
• Understands and stays up to date on the industry’s technology landscape; brings new ideas to the team. Maps industry technology trends to internal vision.
• Understands principles of lean design, design thinking, what it is and why it is important. Explores all ideas, regardless of their source.
• Works to create an understanding of how individual people and things fit within larger structures (like systems or organizations), as well as the relationships between parts of a system and the organizations they are within.

Leadership:

• Understands the value of a rigorous, collaborative, and transparent decision-making process.
• Demonstrates sensitivity to key cultural issues.
• Uses generative techniques (sketching, brainstorming, etc.) to establish a variety of possible design decisions and decision scenarios.
• Expresses UX and design concepts to collaborators on cross functional teams. Goes beyond merely presenting designs, explains the story of the rationale and benefit of design ideas.

Personal Attributes:

• Acts and decides appropriately when all available information may not be possible to obtain.
• Is a user centered designer that strives to gather and integrate user feedback in their designs.
• Demonstrates the ability to extract and communicate how customer (user) groups are thinking and feeling.
• Asks questions appropriate to translating an abstract problem into a roadmap for identifying solutions.
• Captures specific information from the audience and validates it back to them for acceptance.

Additional Information

#LI-Remote - This is a remote position