Senior UX Designer (f / m)

Requisition #: 16033

Our Mission: Powering Innovation That Drives Human Advancement

When visionary companies need to know how their world-changing ideas will perform, they close the gap between design and reality with Ansys simulation. For more than 50 years, Ansys software has enabled innovators across industries to push boundaries by using the predictive power of simulation. From sustainable transportation to advanced semiconductors, from satellite systems to life-saving medical devices, the next great leaps in human advancement will be powered by Ansys.

Innovate With Ansys, Power Your Career.

Summary / Role Purpose

The Senior User Experience Designer creates easy and delightful experiences for users interacting with ANSYS products and services. The UX designer assesses the functional and content requirements of a product, develops storyboards, creates wireframes and task flows based on user needs, and produces visually detailed mockups that convey the desired look and feel for the product. A passion for visual design and familiarity with UI trends and technologies are essential in this role, enabling the UX designer to bring fresh and innovative ideas to a project. This is an advanced role, suited for individuals with a demonstrated experience in usability problem-solving and ideation in design, but also focused on content production and communication. It is intended to leverage the UX professional’s experience, presentation and communication skills and to feed into either a dedicated area of design in which the user will build expertise, or to start collaborating to support projects that improve functionality across the company.

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

At Ansys, we know that changing the world takes vision, skill, and each other. We fuel new ideas, build relationships, and help each other realize our greatest potential. We are ONE Ansys. We operate on three key components: our commitments to stakeholders, our values that guide how we work together, and our actions to deliver results. As ONE Ansys, we are powering innovation that drives human advancement.

VALUES IN ACTION

Ansys is committed to powering the people who power human advancement. We believe in creating and nurturing a workplace that supports and welcomes people of all backgrounds; encouraging them to bring their talents and experience to a workplace where they are valued and can thrive.

Ansys is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.

Ansys does not accept unsolicited referrals for vacancies, and any unsolicited referral will become the property of Ansys. Upon hire, no fee will be owed to the agency, person, or entity.