UX/UI Design Protege Trainee

About Us

A career at Hitachi Rail will help create a legacy. With operations in every corner of the world, our work goes to the cutting-edge of digital transformation and technology. From the multi-cultural strength of our global organisation to the sustainable and innovative ways we work to bring people together, there's something for everyone to get stuck into. And that's where you come in.

Location: Kuala-Lumpur, Malaysia (On-Site)

As Hitachi Rail, we are advancing rail signalling and safety solutions to ensure safe and efficient railway operations worldwide. Our technologies help to bring billions of people reliably to their destinations by rail every year - making sustainable mobility a reality.

Position: UX/UI Design Protege Trainee (Ref.No. R1005653)

You will enjoy having these responsibilities:

1. Support the projects by nurturing human-centered design, product thinking, and UX to collaborate in modelling the user experience of various business-to-business (B2B) systems and engineering solutions within GTS.
2. Support and facilitate user research studies to uncover needs and pain points, and support validation using various methods (e.g., user interviews, surveys, desk research, card sorting, usability testing, tree-testing, heuristic analysis, etc.).
3. Drive co-creation and discovery of archetypes and research outcomes (service blue printing, user persona, user journey, experience maps, wireframes, etc.).
4. Design the UI with best practices and rigorously validate them with research or ideally with proxy/end-users.
5. Iterate designs based on the user test findings and well-considered system thinking.
6. Contribute to the design system, alpha style guides, and liaise with the design system owners to ensure alignment with best practices.
7. Engage with stakeholders to define ideal ways of working for the success of the product.
8. Present UX/research outcomes to nurture business alignment and educate on their impact on development and product values.
9. Support the UX/UI learning/training tracks within GTS.

You have:

1. Open to Fresh Graduates with working experience less than 2 years.
2. Proven excellence in academic achievement, with a focus on Design and related fields such as Industrial Design, Graphic Design, Multimedia Design, Creative or in relevant fields.
3. Experience delivering successful and highly interactive web applications will be advantageous.
4. Experience working as a UI developer conceptualizing, designing, and developing data-driven complex interface solutions using modern web technologies will be advantageous.
5. Strong background with knowledge/experience with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript will be advantageous (not compulsory).
6. Visual design, UX design, and prototyping experience with Adobe software or Sketch/Figma.
7. Prior User Research/Interface design experiences will be highly considered as added consideration points.
8. Interested in producing polished wireframes, mock-ups, and prototypes.
9. Hungry (to learn), Humble, Adaptive, Collaborative, Data-driven, and willing to commit to user/system research-related work.
10. Ability to work on multiple projects and meet deadlines.

Our Talent Acquisition Team is looking forward to hearing from you.

We look forward to receiving your application in just a few clicks via our career portal.

For further information about Hitachi Rail as an employer visit us on www.hitachirail.com/careers.

Notes:

Equal opportunities and self-determined participation of severely disabled persons and persons of equal status as well as respectful cooperation are firmly anchored principles within Hitachi Rail and its subsidiaries. We also aim to offer all our equal opportunities to start a career and to receive training and further education in our company. We consciously promote diversity and togetherness in our teams.

Thank you for your interest in Hitachi Rail. If your application is of interest, we will be in contact. Please do not hesitate to discover more about us and our latest jobs at https://www.hitachirail.com/careers.

At Hitachi Rail, there is a place for everyone. We welcome and value differences in background, age, gender, sexuality, family status, disability, race, nationality, ethnicity, religion, and world view. It is our commitment to create an inclusive environment - we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.