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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

• Deliver on a customer-centered strategy by setting high-level design goals to ensure a consistent and engaging experience.

• Shape the design culture by setting a high bar for performance and design excellence, and addressing performance misalignment in a prompt and human-centered manner.

• Lead with an owner's mentality to deliver ideas and design outcomes that differentiate our solutions in the market.

• Steward design from concept to final code.

• Own operational outcomes, managing project tasks and deliverables using agile methodologies.

• Drive alignment by collaborating with developers, marketers, product managers and other design teams to drive a shared understanding of users' needs and behaviors.

• Pursue disciplined innovation, with emphasis on cross-functional collaboration, experimentation, and learning.

• Communicate, collaborate, and innovate - promoting positive cross-discipline product culture.

• Make data-driven decisions -from one source of truth- with a bias for understanding and action.

• Promote an environment of psychological safety for interpersonal risk-taking that allows the design team to spend more time towards high-performance goals.

• Review designs of the multi-skilled design teams, improving the work while growing the designers and supporting their career development.

• Foster a team culture of diversity and transparent collaboration.

• Advocate for and facilitate human-centered design in everyday work.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• At least 7+ years of experience that demonstrates strategy, leadership, and collaboration on complex problems.

• 5+ years experience as a design lead/people manager.

• Demonstrated evidence of managing relationships across the stakeholder spectrum (internally and externally with clients).

• Known for transformational leadership and sustained record of excellent design work and leadership.

• Experience leading teams towards the successful delivery of high-quality designs to market.

• Contributes to developing strong leadership pipeline.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience in enterprise software design and delivery

• Experience in mobile and desktop design and delivery

• Portfolio of previous work incorporating UI designs and/or sketches that demonstrate an understanding of wireframing, interaction design, visual design and design best practices.

About Business UnitSustainability Software is a worldwide team within IBM that is collectively responsible for software products focused on AI-enabled solutions that help our customers make more informed and data-driven decisions about how to manage their businesses and services.

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence-from machine learning to generative AI-to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM's AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM's hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments-a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

Your Life @ IBMIn a world where technology never stands still, IBMers understand that dedication to our clients' success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships are central to our success as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career in an culture that prioritizes learning new information and skills to constantly transform yourself and our company. You'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious and open to feedback, and providing on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow. They collaborate with colleagues, contributing to a team-focused approach that includes different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

About IBMIBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business. At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

Location StatementMust have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.

This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. If you are a Foreign National from any of the following US sanctioned countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine) on a work permit, you are not eligible for employment in this position.

Being You @ IBMIBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.