Job Description
Job Description
Ready to help product teams deliver a great customer and user experiences? So are we. Come join VMware's new exciting Modern Applications Platform Business Unit (MAPBU), made up of products and services under the Tanzu portfolio to help customers build, run and manage their most important applications. We build applications with velocity to run in a cloud-native environment, run open-source Kubernetes with consistency, and manage our customers' entire footprint with confidence to help them achieve their business outcomes. To learn more about Tanzu watch this video . #teamtanzu
As a Product Designer for VMware, you will work with a globally distributed design team to apply your craft to a range of products, services, and experiments. Our culture provides the opportunity to explore the technologies we're researching and investing in. Some of your work will be functional, practical user interaction design, applied to software used by thousands of people. Other work will be speculative, generative explorations that you carry out in collaboration and partnership across the organization to flesh out, frame, and help prioritize solutions in an ever-evolving and complex problem space.
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Responsibilities
- Closely collaborate with the product management and engineering teams to identify product vision and goals
- Partner with user experience researchers to talk directly with customers to understand their needs, goals, and motivations
- Conceptualize and define an end to end design strategy that supports customer needs and business goals. Ideate detailed stories and user flows illustrating the solution
- Closely collaborate with a geographically diverse design team to co-design while ensuring consistency across the suite of products and services
- Advocate user needs throughout the development lifecycle in an agile, iterative environment to ensure problem: solution fit
- Verify and improve on designs through reviews, validations, and formal usability testing with end-users
- Become a subject matter expert with the ability to understand the latest architecture, technology, solution, and market trends as well as competitive offerings related to cloud computing
Skills
- Defining end to end workflows and analyzing user flows
- Skills in interaction design with a solid command of the user-centered design process
- Ability to tell simple user stories illustrating solutions
- Team player in a high achievement-oriented environment
- Excellent oral and written communication, presentation, and analytical skills
- Agile, adaptable, and capable of delivering new products and features
- Comfort working with developers in the presentation layer
- Experience in working with tools such as Figma, Sketch, and Adobe Creative Suite
- Experience with user research
- Good aesthetic sense
- Strong prototyping skills desired
- Online portfolio
Education
- Master's degree in Design, HCI, or related field from reputable design institutes or equivalent experience
Experience
- Experience in user experience and interaction design for web applications or services
- Background in user-centered design principles across desktop, mobile, and web platforms
- Aptitude for designing large-scale web-based applications.
- Experience with designing SaaS services is a plus
Design at VMware:
We are a dedicated team that moves fast, upholds design quality, values consistency, and simplicity, and focuses on customers and their needs. We work together and value "we" over "me". We believe in inclusion both within our team and in the way we build products and make that clear in the way we hire, design, and execute. We value growth and encourage, not just respect, our differences. We're the organization to "get it done" together. We're not afraid to make new mistakes, learn from them, and grow together as a team and an organization.
We love what we do and build products that are used by hundreds of thousands of productive individuals and organizations around the world.
VMware is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind: VMware is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at VMware are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. VMware will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. VMware encourages applicants of all ages. VMware will provide reasonable accommodation to employees who have protected disabilities consistent with local law.
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