UX / UI design

Responsibilities:

• Neutrally represent the user in a project and during management deliberations
• Continuously evaluate prospect and user needs and industry trends and serve as a conduit to Product for Product development
• Travel to end-user sites and pilot/test locations to scout opportunities
• Develop new tools to make effective prototypes and closer to users/ use-cases
• Identify design shortfalls & User needs through user research
• Making design + UX proposals related to functions & features
• Delivering on project requirements & within target timelines
• Come up with UI and UX strategies based on our target goals
• Collaborate with other Depts. to utilise their domain expertise to ensure successful delivery on user needs & ultimately high levels of user satisfaction
• Define & describe an architecture of a solution in the context of a specific solution
• Compile & present User needs and solutioning to Management/ Leadership
• End goal: Designing friction-free UX & engineering simple-to-use connected mobility solutions through digital (App) in combination with physical (in-car).
• Competencies Required:
• Required skills
• Experience in Solution Engineering and communicating complex user issues and use cases to development teams/ product departments
• Deep familiarity with both quantitative & qualitative research methods including AB testing, data analytics, and user research
• Familiarity and experience with agile development methodologies
• Experience analysing some unstructured information, knowledge of visualising, hands-on with Creative Prototyping tools
• Experience interpreting user insights into potential engineering opportunities
• Adequate skill in crafting original GUI mockups, storyboarding, user flows, freehand sketching, and low- to high-fidelity prototypes
• Curiosity about data-based decision-making and comfort working with data
• Basic understanding of Design Thinking
• Basic understanding of automotive systems
• Desired skills
• Familiarity and experience with development tools (JIRA, Figma Suite; experience in Creative Cloud Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.) is a plus)
• Willingness to travel
• Basic technical understanding of smartphone app development
• Experience conducting user research
• Experience with user-centred design methodologies
• Working knowledge of behavioural analysis
• Basic understanding of Controller Area Network protocol & Telematics system
• Behavioral
• A strong sense of urgency
• An effective team player
• Out-of-the-box + yes-and mindset to achieve goals
• Critical-thinking and problem-solving skills
• Respectable time-management skills
• Proficient interpersonal and communication skills
• Project Description
• Iterate to design a user-friendly, relevant & easy car-ownership UX through Suzuki Connect. Products can go into a smartphone app or an in-car head unit.