Senior User Experience Designer

Palo Alto, CA - relo available

PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES

Taking the design of SAP’s Enterprise Applications to the next

level of design excellence is the core business of the SAP User Experience Group. Our mission

is to provide a world-class user experience for end users of SAP business applications.

The objective of this position is to work in close collaboration with product management and

development to design and develop industry leading applications for the on-Demand business. The senior user experience designer works within a team to translate business requirements into effective UI design.

He/she designs the next generation user experience for SAP based on user research, human-factor principles, platform style guides, market and sales drivers, business requirements, and technical requirements. He/she identifies and drives opportunities to improve aspects of the software-development process related to the user interface, including streamlining and automation. Along with fellow members of the User-Experience team, the senior user interface designer has a key role in assuring best-quality

and best-practice user interface design throughout the product lifecycle.

SAP is the global market leader for business software and thus contributes a considerable part of the world's economic power grid. At SAP you get your chance to put your ideas into action with maximum impact.

EXPECTATIONS AND TASKS

· Involvement in user research activities, including participatory design sessions.

· Interpreting business requirements into effective UI specifications.

· Definition, creation, production and review of user interface and usability requirements.

· Conceptualizing and developing use scenarios on a product level.

· Performing and reporting on task analyses.

· Creating conceptual design models.

· Creating interaction models and task flows.

· Defining information organization and screen layouts.

· Creating and demonstrating iterative prototypes (hi and low fidelity).

· Involvement in design validation activities and recommendations reporting.

· Communicating effectively within UX- and product management/ development community.

· Contributing to project planning and infrastructure initiatives.

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

· Graduate level training in: Human Computer Interaction, Human Factors, Industrial Design or other related disciplines.

· Strong online or electronic portfolio which demonstrates expert-level proficiency in visual and interactive design for business and/or consumer audiences.

· Experience in major aspects of product definition: developing user profiles, use scenarios, task flows, prototypes, and information architecture.

· Knowledge of current and upcoming desktop and cloud-based technologies.

· Active interest in gadgets, videogames, social software and media.

· Experience with prototyping, motion graphics and animation a plus.

· 5+ years of experience doing design-led product definition, design, and development in the software industry

WORK EXPERIENCE

· Five or more years experience doing user interface and user experience conceptualization,

design and specification of data-driven software in a high tech industry.

· Experience with developing user profiles, use scenarios, task flows, prototypes and information hierarchies.

· Must have experience with two or more formal UI evaluation and requirements methods.

· Design ideation/conceptualization processes, task analyses, field studies, formal UI/UE

· Design reviews, standards and guidelines definition, and design validation testing

· Demonstrated ability to learn and design for complex business tasks and supporting technologies.

· Must be a solid team player with good writing, presentation and time management skills

· Must be able to work effectively with teams to prioritize UI issues and review the results of

user research. Experience with on Demand, SaaS, CRM, Agile Development a plus.

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