IBM Hiring for Cloud Senior Design Manager at Bangalore, India Full Time

Introduction

At IBM, work is more than a job – it’s a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you’ve never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world’s most challenging problems? If so, lets talk.

Your Role and Responsibilities

Do you love helping others around you grow, thrive on helping product development teams be more successful, live to ship beautiful and functional products and strive to create a great place to work? If so, let’s talk.

As Senior Design Manager you’ll be responsible for a combination of people and practice leadership. You will directly manage a team of Bangalore-based visual and UX designers covering a portfolio of IBM Cloud products, collaborating with leadership counterparts in product management and engineering to set and deliver project objectives. As a core member of the global Cloud Design Leadership Team, you will be expected to work autonomously and deliver on our organizational and cultural transformation efforts. You will be essential to building a team over the next several years and setting the cultural tone by demonstrating IBM Values.

What you’ll do

Design Leadership & Community Building

• Cultivate design excellence and accelerate cultural transformation and innovation by creating the conditions for the team to do their best work. Actively participate in driving team culture through regular meetings and engagement

• Strategize long- and short-term plans on how design can meet the needs of our users for a portfolio of products

• Measure and improve design performance and outcomes across a portfolio of products and be responsible for business outcomes as part of the management system and Monthly Operations Review

• Participate in design critiques to give and receive creative direction to ensure the highest quality, market-leading design outcomes

• Foster employee engagement and talent development and acceleration by coaching talented and engaged designers to grow their skillset, and provide pathways to designers to grow their careers

• Create and sustain a diverse hiring pipeline in India

Cross-functional Alignment & Collaboration

• Engage, educate and align with peers and stakeholders on design’s impact and value and drive adoption of a user-centric approach

• Prioritize work effectively in coordination with brilliant counterparts in software engineering and product management

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 8+ years of experience in UX or visual design

• 2+ years of experience in management and demonstrated expertise in mentorship, recruiting, hiring and leading a team

• A portfolio of work samples that demonstrates experience in human-centered design with a proven track record

• Experience in leading agile practices, design thinking and influencing projects through human-centered design principles

• Strong engagement in the design community and industry best practices and innovations

• Excellent presentation and communication skills in English – Candid, honest and above all thoughtful and kind

• Proven ability to ensure work delivers on strategic and business goals

• Ability to work from the office in Bangalore 3 days per week

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• 10+ years of experience in design practice and leadership

• Advanced degree in a design-related field or Computer Science

• Design community involvement or a strong network of potential candidates to hire on to your team

• Technical experience in cloud platforms or enterprise software experience

• Desire to make the best products in the industry hands-down

• Infectious curiosity – always looking for opportunities to learn new things

• Self-motivation, an open mind and a sense of humor

About Business UnitIBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate – they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world’s most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future. Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfolio designed for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.

This job requires you to be fully COVID-19 vaccinated prior to your start date and proof of vaccination status will be required before your start date. During the Onboarding process you will be asked to confirm your vaccination status, in case you are unable to get vaccinated for any reason, you can let us know at that stage. Please let us know if you are unable to be vaccinated due to medical or religious reasons. IBM will consider such requests on a case by case basis subject to submission of required proof by the candidate before a stipulated date.

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