Sr. UI/UX Designer - Cabin R&D
Date: Apr 20, 2024
Location: Savannah, GA, US
Company: Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation
Sr. UI/UX Designer - Cabin R&D in GAC Savannah
Unique Skills:
General Overview:
The Gulfstream Completions R&D and New Product Design Team explores and designs new, innovative customer experiences that exceed our elite customers’ expectations. We use a Lean and Design Thinking approach to create engaging prototypes and proofs-of-concepts based on our research. Join this exciting team to elevate the aviation industry and enhance future cabin experiences. We seek an experienced UI/UX designer (Innovative Problem Solver) to foster strong partnerships across our design practice and enterprise. You will develop design artifacts, to assist with Design Sprints/Thinking workshops, provide direction that resolve challenging user experience needs.
We are seeking a unique blend of innovation and creative thinking combined with ‘'hands-on execution skills and collaboration skills”. This role is about creating industry leading experiences by effectively using the power of Lean Design and Design Thinking. You will work with other cross-functional teams to provide a new standard of quality, creative excellence, and innovation.
You Should Be:
- Able to create unique, modern, responsive, pixel-perfect creative designs.
- Obsessed with crafting simple, intuitive, and delightful user experiences.
- Able to clearly articulate the rationale for your designs.
- Able to work in a collaborative team environment and independently when needed.
- Able to manage time across several projects.
- Possess an innovative and out of the box thinking.
- Able to create a new creative culture and Design Thinking environment.
- Eager to collaborate, learn, and quickly figure things out.
Requirements:
- Work with designers, stakeholders, engineering, and technical partners to objectives and be responsible for ensuring creative excellence.
- Act as a strategic liaison between Gulfstream and supporting third parties, evaluating work, and sharing feedback.
- Help internal stakeholders and external partners uphold design and user experience quality, consistency, and alignment across all initiatives.
- Responsible for wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows, site maps, prototypes, interactions, and mockups/comps to communicate design ideas effectively.
- Act as a UX design and digital brand resource within our team
- Manage the digital creation and evolution of guidelines, frameworks, UI patterns, and systems that help us more effectively manage our team.
- Initiate programs that create innovation and inspire Gulfstream on the effective use and potential of our CX/UX capabilities.
- Communicate ideas and sell concepts with an aptitude for negotiation.
- Demonstrate solid social skills and the ability to influence others without coercion, using relationship-based, emotionally intelligent persuasion. A deep respect for collaboration and partnership is a must – applying core Design Thinking principles.
- Help create UX and design best practices and processes.
- Experience working in fast-paced R&D and Engineering development environments.
- Field research experience and strong understanding of usability testing is a plus.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Suite.
- Working experience with Design Systems.
- Working experience with Digital animations and video content creations.
- Unreal Engine or Unity experience desired. Immersive design working experience a huge plus.
- Clean and world-class online portfolio required.
- Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills.
Creation of strong visuals to help create a narrative and help facilitate understanding of design concepts along with experience in workshop facilitation is a must.
Education and Experience Requirements
Job Description
- Responsible for an entire engineering project of major complexity within established scope .
- Makes technical decisions and recommendations that are recognized as authoritative and have an important impact on extensive engineering activities .
- Applies advanced technical principles, theories and concepts based on broad expertise or unique specialized knowledge .
- Leads the development of innovative principles and ideas .
- Acts independently to determine improved methods and/or procedures to optimize technical product, cost and schedule requirements .
- Works under consultative direction; uses independent judgment to accomplish objectives .
- Develops standards and guides for diverse engineering activities .
- Conceives and plans investigation of broad areas of importance for which engineering precedents are lacking in areas critical to the program .
- Advanced degree in engineering or related curriculum preferred.
- The level of technical skill and abilities appropriate for this grade will be established by each discipline.
Additional Information
Requisition Number: 217860
Category: Engineering
Percentage of Travel: Up to 25%
Shift: First
Employment Type: Full-time
Posting End Date: 06/01/2024
Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.
Gulfstream does not provide work visa sponsorship for this position, unless the applicant is a currently sponsored Gulfstream employee.
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