Senior User Experience Designer

Nissan is a pioneer in Innovation and Technology. With a focus on Mobility, Operational Excellence, Value to our Customers and Electrification of vehicles, you can expect to be part of a very exciting journey here at Nissan. Nissan is going after a massive Digital Transformation backed by leading technologies across the organization globally. We are committed to building a diverse, entrepreneurial organization, and our current team is strong evidence of that. Our people are what drive the business forward. At Nissan Digital, you will be part of a dynamic team with ample opportunities to grow and make a difference.

As a UX Designer with the UX CoE team, you will use your skills developed over the years to implement cutting edge solutions using the established design principles & practices and solve challenging business problems. You will provide your expertise in crafting meaningful & highly interactive solutions, prototypes, wireframes, low & high-fidelity visual designs and other artefacts in the product UX design process. You’ll work on complex projects and contribute to the overall strategic vision of the organization. You’ll integrate a broad range of ideas regarding organizational UX maturity and ensure alignment with the Sales, Product and Enterprise architectural vision & roadmap.

Responsibilities:

• Actively participate in business discussions to understand user requirements, understand and assist in crafting UX strategy, creating efficient product design roadmaps & other UX processes that can then be treated as a working reflection of the best practices.
• Participating in business meetings, design reviews, architecture discussions to provide design direction to the product.
• Being responsible for Scaling, Performance & Quality for the product.
• Assist the UX lead to setup best practices to help the team achieve the above and constantly thinking about improving the UX process to aim for better organizational UX Maturity.
• Adoption of these best practices to ensure the best possible quality w.R.T. UX roadmap.
• Experiment with new & relevant trends and tools, and drive adoption while measuring yourself on the impact you are able to create
• Collaborate with Product Management and Product Development leaders in developing product visions and strategies.
• Assist the UX Lead to define & drive implementation of long term UX vision for your team & the CoE.
• Be primary owner of the design architecture of your product and will also be responsible for getting it reviewed, and making sure the system is built accordingly.
• Be an evangelist for UX & represent company in external forums.

Qualifications:

• Good communication & presentation skills required to demonstrate designs to clients in a story telling mode.
• Strong understanding of Research methodologies, User Interviewing techniques
• Strong understanding of UX design processes, Usability best practices, Usability Principles, UI patterns
• Strong knowledge of Interaction design principles including digital and conventional prototyping
• Experiential knowledge of conducting User Testing Sessions (remote and in-person)
• Close collaboration with front-end developers to ensure quality and consistency after design hand-off
• A great attitude towards co-workers and management to put forth requirements, observations in a professional manner
• A quick learner of industry product, process ecosystems to translate global know-how to specific scenarios thereby maintaining the overall idea of a suite design
• Strong knowledge of Design Systems, importance & implementation protocols.
• Great sense of Visual Design and Visual Communication, an eye for detail
• Knowledge of vector graphic design tools such as Adobe Illustrator and Sketch

Good to have skills:

• Visual Design Expertise, knowledge of Visual Design Principles
• A gist of Structural Design knowledge and how it impacts perception
• Automobile Domain knowledge
• Good hand drawing skills to demonstrate ideas without a need for digital tools
• Good knowledge of Accessibility principles

Experience & other expected expertise:

• 4-8 years of UX work experience
• Required qualification (HCI, CUA-HFI). Skill demonstration is more important
• Quick & Excellent Problem-solving skills for complex & large scale problems.
• Technical Breadth - Exposure to a wide variety of problem spaces, technologies.
• Must be comfortable working in fuzzy environments where boundaries aren’t clearly defined.