Product Designer

**Product Designer**

**The Elevator Pitch: Why will you enjoy this new opportunity?**

As a Product Designer in the IT UX team, you will be a vital link between colleagues, customers, and partners, and you will have the opportunity to shape how VMware - and the world - meets the challenges of today and beyond.

**Success in the Role: What are the performance outcomes over the first 6-12 months you will work toward completing?**

The primary objective of this position is to design, lead, and drive inclusive, human-centered design solutions across our internal colleague

Within the first three months
- Get to know about VMware Design processes, tools, and colleagues by attending internal trainings, reading technical material, and having conversations with key stakeholders.
- Meet with your colleagues in the design and cross-functional teams to develop relationships with them, understand project scopes, and proactively establish trust and rapport that will help drive design initiatives in the future.
- Focus on small wins that will help establish a good rapport with your peers.

Within the first six months
- Following a user-centered design process, deliver designs for impactful initiatives focusing on end-to-end workflows and conducting thorough research to gain confidence in your design decisions.
- Collaborate and engage with other designers, strategists, architects, researchers as needed.
- Develop a cadence for connecting with the cross-functional team and partners in your domain.
- Demonstrate careful listening to stakeholder feedback while still maintaining ownership and autonomy over the design decisions.
- Resolve conflicts and make timely decisions by being thoughtful and informed at the same time.
- Agree to disagree and commit. Deal with different personality types with empathy and choose battles where our customers will have the maximum positive impact.
- Work with engineering to ensure design specifications were followed in the implementation and resolve any fit and finish issues.

Beyond six months
- Support colleague product designers, design strategists, architects, managers, and cross-functional stakeholders to identify long-term strategic design initiatives that are visionary in nature.
- Bring visionary ideas to life by documenting end-to-end workflows, rapid prototyping and validate with users as needed.
- Iterate on the designs as needed and work with PMs to influence the product roadmap.
- Set a direction for the design team by identifying smaller initiatives that connect with the vision.

**What type of work will you be doing? What assignments, requirements, or skills will you be performing on a regular basis?**

**Responsibilities**:

- Collaborate with stakeholders, product management, governance, and engineering teams to identify product goals and vision.
- Partner with user experience researchers to talk directly with customers to understand the user needs, goals and motivations. Independently conduct user and/or competitive research as needed.
- Work to fulfill a design strategy that supports customer needs and business goals. Provide detailed end-to-end workflows and user flows illustrating the solution.
- Champion accessible design, and contribute to improving organizational understandings of and commitments to delivering inclusive solutions that conform to WCAG and internal design requirements.
- Closely collaborate with a geographically spread design team to co-design while ensuring consistency within and across the ecosystems.
- Advocate for user’s 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.
- Review UI implementation and engage with engineering to address fit and finish issues.
- Bring your unique talents to the team, contribute to a coherent team culture that attracts and retains awesome people.

**What is the leadership like for this role? What is the structure and culture of the team like?**

The team is geographically dispersed, with a portion of the team located in Bangalore, India, Sofia, Bulgaria, and other teammates distributed across the US.

The team culture is based on building trust, is highly collaborative and focused on establishing relationships within design and cross-functional teams. If you are passionate towards your craft and would like to stretch your skills to scale at the global level, we’d love to hear from you. We value commitment, relentless pursuit towards excellence and a customer-first mindset, while carefully balancing the business needs.

**Where is this role located?**

Remote in India: This is a full-time remote role, with the option to choose a hybrid, in-office schedule if preferred, once we return to office.

**What are the benefits and perks of working at VMware?**
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Medical Coverage, Retirement, and Parental Leave Plans for All Family