Senior Experience Designer

The Lenovo Design Innovation team is a global group of highly skilled and talented people doing what we love, designing the very best world-class products. You will be an integral part of the team, working together across continents and cultures in a friendly, fast-paced and inspiring work environment.

We are looking to add a Senior Experience Designer to our team that will help us visualize and craft the future of hardware and software at Lenovo. This role would be a fit for you if you’re passionate, optimistic and an excellent collaborator. You’ll report to our Strategic Design & Innovation Director and work closely with our Strategic Design team, User Experience, Software and Engineering teams to help build the foundation for Lenovo’s future device interactions, especially in the AI era.

If you’re a proactive, self-starter that has a strong understanding of why and how customer interaction between both, hardware and software can build a brand and drastically improve a user’s overall experience, this position could be perfect for you.

Core Responsibilities

• Build relationships and appropriately communicate with cross-functional teams to understand requirements and collaborate to achieve short- and long-term goals
• Work closely with research teams to capture the needs of our customers and integrate user feedback into future focused concepts
• Work to stay up to date with the latest industry trends and tech developments, in addition to maintaining a strong understanding of the role of AI and how that might affect the future of technology and human interaction with their devices
• Collaborate with other designers and engineers to build the foundation for harmonious software and hardware solutions, crafting industry leading user experiences from concept to execution
• Communicate user interaction at all stages of the design process with storyboards, sketches, wireframes, flow diagrams, mockups, and/or high-fidelity prototypes.
• Visualize the future of software and hardware interactions, develop and communicate tiered strategies for execution with key checkpoints and goals
• Craft compelling design stories to communicate the vision, inspire others and influence the ultimate design direction
• Always be looking for ways to creatively add value to our team beyond your job description
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Industrial Design, User Experience, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science or equivalent is preferred
• 7 years relevant experience in hardware/software design or user experience
• An excellent portfolio showcasing both hardware and software interactions, product concepts as well as user interface mockups and prototypes.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Very strong collaboration and problem-solving skills, proving that you can effectively work both, independently and with a group
• Familiarity with technical constraints and limitations as they apply to designing for platforms such as desktop and mobile (Windows & Android).
• Ability to visualize, craft and articulate complex concepts
• Experience building and managing relationships with internal and external partners
• Proficiency in MS Office (specifically power point), Adobe CS (Photoshop & Illustrator), Figma, Axure, XD etc.
• Ability to travel to international sites