UX Interaction Designer

Wabtec is currently looking for a user-experience (UX) designer who is able to understand our business requirements and any technical limitations, as well as be responsible for conceiving and conducting user research, interviews, and surveys, and translating them into sitemaps, user flows, customer journey maps, wireframes, mock-ups, and prototypes. The UX designer will also be expected to design the overall functionality of the product, and in order to ensure a great user experience, iterate upon it in accordance with user-testing. As a UX Interaction Designer, you may lead or be an individual contributor to multiple user experience engagements as well as work on highly complex projects that require in-depth knowledge across multiple specialized business domains.

Essential Responsibilities:-

• Translate concepts into user flows, wireframes, mock-ups, and prototypes that lead to intuitive user experiences.
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of Agile / Lean UX methodologies.
• Facilitate the client’s product vision by researching, conceiving, sketching, prototyping, and user-testing experiences for digital products.
• Design and deliver wireframes, user stories, user journeys, and mock-ups optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces.
• Identify design problems and devise elegant solutions.
• Make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, and new, functions, and features.
• Take a user-centered design approach and rapidly test and iterate your designs.
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders.
• Ask smart questions, take risks, and champion new ideas

Qualifications/Requirements:-

• BE/B Tech/MTech Interaction, Graphic, or Industrial Design or in “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math).
• Minimum of 5+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Minimum of 1+ years hands web development experience using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript.
• Experience with Angular and Typescript is desirable.
• Expertise in standard UX software such as Sketch, OmniGraffle, Axure, In Vision, UXPin, Balsamic, Framer, Zeppelin, and the like is a must.
• Ability to work with clients to understand detailed requirements and design complete user experiences that meet client needs and vision.
• Extensive experience in using UX design best practices to design solutions, and a deep understanding of mobile-first and responsive design.
• A solid grasp of user-centered design (UCD), planning and conducting user research, user testing, A/B testing, rapid prototyping, heuristic analysis, usability, and accessibility concerns.
• Ability to iterate designs and solutions efficiently and intelligently.
• Ability to clearly and effectively communicate design processes, ideas, and solutions to teams and clients.
• A clear understanding of the importance of user-centered design and design thinking.
• Ability to work effectively in a team setting including synthesizing abstract ideas into concrete design implications.
• Be excited about collaborating and communicating closely with teams and other stakeholders via a distributed model, to regularly deliver design solutions for approval.
• Be passionate about resolving user pain points through great design.
• Be open to receiving feedback and constructive criticism.
• Be passionate about all things UX and other areas of design and innovation. Research and showcase knowledge in the industry’s latest trends and technologies.

Desired Characteristics:-

Technical Expertise:-

• Work with interaction designers and user interface developers to design the visual aspects of product user interfaces
• Contribute to a visual and interaction design system used across all Wabtec software products
• Communicate designs via wireframes, prototypes, guidelines, specifications, presentations, and discussions
• Participate in discussions relative to the future direction of the design and user experience for the industrial internet of things
• Participate in team discussions about current user experience design projects
• Uses participatory design activities (e.g. paper prototype co-creation, card sorting) to understand the vision, business model and assumptions, and tacit knowledge about user needs and behaviours.
• 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 behaviours, product definition.
• Creates annotated prototypes or wireframes of user interface designs that visually and textually communicate the behaviour of a software application.
• Skilled in standard design & wireframing tools (Sketch, Adobe XD, Figma), hand drawing and visual communication, time-based, and interactive prototyping tools.

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 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 system as a whole.

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:-

• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal and influencing skills.
• Effective team building and problem-solving abilities.
• Persists to completion, especially in the face of overwhelming odds and setbacks. Pushes self for results; pushes others for results through team spirit.

Location:-

• Bengaluru, India.

Company Overview:-

Wabtec Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions and value-added services for freight and transit rail. Drawing on nearly four centuries of collective experience across Wabtec, GE Transportation and Faiveley Transport, the company has unmatched digital expertise, technological innovation, and world-class manufacturing and services, enabling the digital-rail-and-transit ecosystems. Wabtec is focused on performance that drives progress, creating transportation solutions that move and improve the world. Wabtec has approximately 27,000 employees in facilities throughout the world. Visit the company’s new website at: http://www.WabtecCorp.com.