Senior Industrial Designer

Do you have a passion for developing functional, elegant, and easy to use physical solutions to challenging technical problems? Are you a strategic thinker, and interested in creating a vision for how an entire portfolio of products is manufactured, used, and perceived?Are you highly motivated and have a passion for creating advanced technology hardware products?Do you thrive on collaboration, working side by side with experts of all backgrounds and disciplines, and have strong verbal and written communication skills?If you excel at solving problems, designing, and implementing solutions to complex technical issues, then read on, how to becomes one of the members of the team that shapes the IBM hardware product line!As an Industrial Design lead, you will be expected to engage with all parties involved in the definition and development of new IT hardware products (marketing, user researchers, product management, mechanical development and testing, …) and deliver on project phases on time and on budget.As a Designer, technology is your medium and you use prototyping skills and collaboration with development, to bring a product from concept through delivery. Your attention to detail insures the original vision and expectations, in terms of functionality, fit, and finish, are reflected in the production hardware.As a Lead, your goal is to optimize IBM products to meet clients' needs, and you demonstrate initiative and self-motivation. You leverage facilitation skills, and apply IBM Enterprise Design Thinking, to help clients articulate their overall strategy and be user-centric rather than feature-focused.Working closely with product management, you will have a broad understanding of user needs which will lead to insight into the marketplace, considering entire lifecycle, and telling a compelling story around your design goals.As a User Advocate, you have the opportunity to understand firsthand the impact of our products on the end users. The opportunity as a Designer is to take the understanding and translate that into actionable insights to help the Product Delivery team continuously deliver.