**Introduction** Join IBM's worldwide design organization for Cloud FinOps, where our mission is to empower users to do their best work through intuitive and visually engaging interfaces. As a Designer, you'll play a crucial role in connecting Cloudability with other products in the IBM portfolio, building bridges, and creating a single, cohesive experience greater than the sum of its parts. We’re seeking a design leader with deep expertise in user research, strategic thinking, and independent execution. In this role, you will drive the design vision and champion user-centric innovation across the product, ensuring every interaction delivers value and impact. **Your role and responsibilities** * Own End-to-End Design Execution: Deliver wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs that provide seamless and impactful user experiences. Monitor and evaluate the user experiences post-delivery. * Collaborative Development: Work closely with design team members and developers to build, update, and modernize software product user interfaces using agile methodologies.  * Conduct User Research: Plan and execute research initiatives to uncover insights, validate ideas, and inform design decisions at every stage of development such as usability testing, user interviews, survey creation, etc. * Translate Insights into Designs: Convert actionable insights from the design research team into low and high-fidelity mock-ups, patterns, prototypes, and development-ready specifications.  * Feedback Loop: Share work-in-progress designs and actively engage in giving and receiving constructive critique.  * Advocate for Design Excellence: Promote user-centered design principles across teams, fostering a culture of innovation and empathy. * Business Context: Understand business problems across our customer base to provide context for deliverables.  **Required technical and professional expertise** * Product Design Problem Solving: Ability to solve complex user problems through UX & UI design, creating mock-ups and prototypes, and documenting interaction patterns.  * Design Tools Proficiency: Demonstrated experience with design tools such as Figma, Sketch, Mural, Adobe Creative Cloud, etc.  * Design Principles: Knowledge of design principles including typography, layout, imagery, color theory, and creating efficiencies in visual design workflows.  * Collaborative Communicator: Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with a history of success working in cross-functional teams. * Leadership Experience: Ability to lead design initiatives and drive strategy across complex projects. * Portfolio Presentation: Must have a portfolio showcasing previous design work.  **Preferred technical and professional experience** * Design Best Practices: Understanding of modern design thinking and design best practices, including but not limited to responsiveness and accessibility for complex B2B applications. * Attention to Detail: Appreciation for detail, ensuring every pixel and interaction is meticulously crafted.  * Research Expertise: Skilled in planning, conducting, and applying user research to inform and elevate design outcomes. * Domain Knowledge: Experience with enterprise SaaS products or IT financial management is a plus. * Independent and Proactive: Self-driven with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver exceptional results with minimal supervision. * Strategic Thinker: Capable of crafting a design vision that aligns with both user and business needs while maintaining a focus on long-term impact. * Mentorship and Guidance: Provide mentorship to junior designers and contribute to the growth of a collaborative and innovative design culture.