Design Lead

At IBM, our design philosophy is to help guide people so they can do their best work. Because of designers at IBM planes and trains take off on time, bank transactions complete in the blink of an eye and the world remains safe. The team you'll be helping to lead is part of the worldwide design organization for AI Applications. AI Applications is an organization in IBM that is responsible for AI-enabled solutions that assist our customers in making more informed and data-driven decisions about how to manage their business. We are looking for an experienced UX Design Lead to help mentor and enable a cross-disciplinary team to deliver great end-to-end customer experiences.ResponsibilitiesEnable, drive and lead the design team, managing project tasks and deliverables using agile methodologies.Shape the strategy by setting high-level design goals to ensure a consistent and engaging experience. Analyze complexity, simplify workflows, identify the right problems to solve. Drive alignment by collaborating with designers, developers, marketers and product managers to drive a shared understanding of user's needs and behaviors. Translate research into outstanding user experiences, steward design from concept to final code. Creation of key UX artifacts such as concept maps, storyboards, taxonomies, prototypes, patterns, information architecture, workflows and design specifications. Develop and playback interaction concepts to the larger team and be able to clearly defend design choices through employing prototypes at different fidelities to communicate design intent. Identify new components, patterns, and templates to be incorporated into the design standards while working with other designers across the organization to ensure consistency. Review designs of the multi-skilled design team, improving the work while growing the designers. Foster a team culture of diversity and transparent collaboration. Lead team stand-ups & playbacks and present design work as part of a compelling narrative to elicit buy-in from cross-disciplinary stakeholders. Advocate for and facilitate human centered design in everyday work and client meetings.Plan, lead and moderate virtual and in-person design thinking workshops