Senior UX Designer

Key Duties and Responsibilities  

Creates user-centered designs by understanding business requirements, user needs, and technical constraints  

Independently designs, develops, and evaluates wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs for web applications  

Continually demonstrates fluency in visual design principles with extreme attention to details with little oversight  

Maintains and contributes to the design system, ensuring consistency across all products

Has concomitant experience in modeling and analysis software and workflows, with emphasis on Ansys-type products  

Judges importance of, responds to, and prioritizes UX-focused software problems   

Collaborates on and contributes to design and methods patents implemented in ANSYS software  

Collaborates with other designers, product managers, developers, and stakeholders to ensure designs are feasible and meet project goals  

Mininum Education/Cerification Requirements and Experience

3-5 years of experience in UI/UX design with a strong portfolio showcasing user-centered design processes and impactful results.  

BS or BA in Human-Computer Interaction, Design Engineering, or Industrial Design with 1-3 years’ experience or MS  

Master-level expertise in design tools such as Figma, Sketch, Framer, Adobe XD, or similar  

Solid understanding of responsive design, accessibility standards, and front-end technologies (HTML/CSS/JS)

Experience with Adobe Creative Suite & CAD/CAE in any form

Experience in the full development cycle for a software product, from ideation to shipment

Is detail-oriented and utilizes highly developed organizational skills including the ability to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines

Understanding of the software development process and ability to communicate well with software development teams

Preferred Qualifications and Skills  

Certificate in HCI

Particular Experience with:

• Modeling and simulation applications

Tools & technologies for UI implementation

Contributing to and leveraging a design system to ensure consistency and efficiency in design  

Ability to:   

Smoothly iterate on designs, taking direction, adjusting, and re-focusing towards a converged design  

• Think critically, identify pain points, and design creative solutions
• Communicate succinctly and professionally via email, chat, remote meetings, usability evaluations, etc.
• Prototype rapidly using any tools available