UX Interaction Designer

Job description

3306374
Additional Cities

Providence
Career Level

Entry-Level
Relocation Assistance

No
Business

GE Digital
Business Segment

Digital Technology
Function

Digital Technology
Country/Territory

United States
Additional States/Provinces

Rhode Island
Postal Code

02902
Role Summary/Purpose

GE Digital is seeking a UX Interaction Designer to join the Digital Workplace Technology team. In this role, you will help create useful and desirable software product and service experiences for GE’s global digital workplace. As a UX Interaction Designer you will 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 digital technology domains.
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

·  Leads research and evaluation of emerging design, technology, industry, and market trend

·  Contribute to a visual and interaction design system used across GE software products,
Qualifications/Requirements

Basic Qualifications:

·  Bachelor's Degree in Design. A minimum 2 years of professional experience in Design (e.g. interaction, graphic, visual communications, product, industrial), HCI, CS or a related field.

Eligibility Requirements:

·  Legal authorization to work in US is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job

·  Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background investigation

·  Must be willing to work out of a GE office located in Providence, Rhode Island
Desired Characteristics

Technical Expertise:

·  Competencies with core UX skills – design strategy, user research, wireframes, prototypes, and visual design

·  Strong understanding of design principles, navigation and architecture, color and layout principles

·  Familiarity with responsive web and application design standards

·  Uses participatory design activities (e.g. paper prototype co-creation, card sorting) to understand vision, business model and assumptions and tacit knowledge about user needs and behaviors.

·  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 (Adobe CC, InVision, Sketch), 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:

·  Acts and decides appropriately when all available information may not be possible to obtain.

·  Demonstrates the ability to extract and communicate how customer 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.
About Us

GE (NYSE:GE) drives the world forward by tackling its biggest challenges. By combining world-class engineering with software and analytics, GE helps the world work more efficiently, reliably, and safely. GE people are global, diverse and dedicated, operating with the highest integrity and passion to fulfill GE’s mission and deliver for our customers. www.ge.com
GE offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE is anEqual Opportunity Employer . Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, gender (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, veteran status or any other characteristics protected by law.
Additional Eligibility Qualifications

GE will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable). This role is restricted to U.S. persons (i.e., U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and other protected individuals under the Immigration and Naturalization Act, 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)) due to access to export-controlled technology. GE will require proof of status prior to employment.
Primary Country

United States
Primary State/Province

Rhode Island
Primary City

Providence