Description

Key Duties and Responsibilities 

Wholly plans, designs, and delivers entire functional range of required UX projects 

Demonstrates ability to take projects from ideation to delivery, incrementally improving functions continuously, sometimes with little guidance. 

May review UX artifacts created by other UX team members 

Utilizes prototyping tools and UX toolkits 

May create, review, and manage submissions to development code streams with high quality 

Creates and delivers usability studies 

Plans and estimates own design and implementation workloads, utilizing process accelerations and optimizations 

Communicates design rationale across product creation disciplines and personnel 

Records usability/UX problems with clear explanations and recommendations for improvement 

Brings own experience to other team members in UX techniques, development processes and all other tasks 

Build expertise in knowledge and usage of Ansys software 

Works closely with product managers, development teams, and other designers, sometimes across multiple business units. 

May contribute to design and methods patents implemented in Ansys software 

 

Minimum Education/Certification Requirements and Experience 

BS or BA in Human-Computer Interaction, Design Engineering, Industrial Design, or BS in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering with 5 years’ experience or MS with 3 years’ experience 

Experience with Microsoft Office and CAD/CAE in any form 

Experience with Figma, or similar design tools like Framer, Adobe XD, Sketch, or others

Experience co-leading development cycles for a software product, from ideation to shipment 

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

Ability to communicate well with software development teams 

 

Preferred Qualifications and Skills 

Certificate in HCI 

Particular Experience with: 

  • Figma
  • Modeling and simulation applications:  
  • UX design and collaboration tools:  
  • Tools & technologies for UI implementation:  
  • Screen-capture/editing/video-editing tools 
  • Ability to: 

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

  • Organize deliverables for future reflection and current investigations, sometimes within cross-functional teams  

Communicate succinctly and professionally via email, chat, remote meetings, usability evaluations, etc. 

  • Prototype rapidly using any tools available 


 

Education

Any Graduate