Product Designer (UX)

Product Designer (UX)

We're Hiring for a Product Designer (UX)!

If you are excited and passionate about helping #LetsSolveWater, consider joining our team today! Xylem, Inc. is a leading global water technology company servicing more than 150 countries and is dedicated to solving the world's most challenging water issues. We are looking for individuals to join our mission by exceeding customer expectations through smart sustainable solutions. At Xylem, you will have the opportunity to solve water by participating in our paid Volunteer Program, Xylem Watermark!

The Role: Xylem is looking for a Product Designer (UX) to join our global design team, where you will create elegant solutions to complex problems for our users. You will work alongside teams of engineers, product managers, and more to build the best workflows we can. To be successful as a Product Designer within Xylem, you should love to dig in to problems of all sizes, focusing on understanding the users and representing them throughout. You should be comfortable asking questions to users and stakeholders, enjoy prototyping and iteration, and have a good eye for detail. Xylem is focused on helping utility companies to understand their data in order to reduce costs and improve their operation. We're looking for people who are passionate about design, patient and confident in their communication, and who change directions quickly. If this sounds like you, then we want to talk! We offer a full benefits package to include Flexible Time Off (FTO) for salaried positions, health, dental, vision, investment savings plan, and additional miscellaneous benefits.

Core Responsibilities: To perform the job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

• Work with designers, product managers, and engineering teams to deliver intuitive UX solutions. You'll help lead the projects and their directions across the entire lifecycle and through launch.
• Learn about the challenges our customers face, and gain a deep understanding of the problem, our users, and their needs. You consider problems from multiple angles and explore different approaches until you've identified the best solution.
• Conduct user research, evaluate user feedback, and perform market research.
• Create low fidelity wireframes to communicate early-stage concepts, as well as creating high fidelity mockups to communicate final solutions, and all of the other stages in-between.
• Present and defend designs and key milestone deliverables to peers and executive level stakeholders.
• Contribute to and promote our design system.
• Participation in Xylem Watermark volunteer activities

Qualifications:

• You have 5+ years' experience creating intuitive solutions. Experience working with and visualizing big data is a plus.
• You can demonstrate and communicate your UI/UX design skills with a strong portfolio.
• You have experience creating prototypes that satisfy the different needs that arise through the lifetime or a project, and enjoy all stages of app design, from sketching to polishing.
• High proficiency in Figma desired.
• Bonus if you have experience with Agile/Scrum.
• You are a team player, communicator and facilitator and enjoy working with others to solve complex problems

Day In The Life:

In this role, the working environment is a standard office environment. The role can be remote based with a preference for the East Coast and the expected travel is 10% or less.

At Xylem, we embrace diversity and strive to create avenues where employees feel valued and appreciated through our DE&I initiatives and Employee Resources Groups (ERG). Xylem is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action workplace. Xylem prohibits discrimination, harassment of any kind and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or sexual orientation (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, marital status, medical conditions or disability, genetic information, age, or other non-merit factors.

Join the global Xylem team today! Xylem is a team creating advanced technology solutions to the world's water challenges through developing new technologies and services that will improve the way water is used, conserved, and re-used in the future is central to our work. Our products and services move, treat, analyze, monitor, and return water to the environment, in public utility, industrial, residential, and commercial building services settings. Xylem also provides a leading portfolio of smart metering, network technologies and advanced analytics solutions for water, electric and gas utilities.

Disclaimer: The information listed within this job description is designed to indicate the general nature of work expected for this position and shall not be viewed as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required in this position. Employees must be able to perform the essential functions of the position satisfactorily and if requested, reasonable accommodations will be made to enable employees with disabilities to perform the essential functions of their job absent undue hardship. Xylem reserves the right to modify this job description or assign other duties to this position as needed.