User Experience Designer

The User Experience Designer II creates easy and delightful experiences for users interacting with ANSYS products and services. The UX designer assesses the functional and content requirements of a product, develops storyboards, creates wireframes and task flows based on user needs, and produces visually detailed mockups. A passion for visual design and familiarity with UI trends and technologies are essential in this role, enabling the UX designer to bring fresh and innovative ideas to a project. This is an intermediate role, heavily focused on content production and communication. It is intended to expose the UX professional to the nuts-and-bolts aspects of their UX career; while building on presentation, communication, and usability aspects of the design role.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Designs, develops, and evaluates cutting-edge user interfaces with increased independence
• Reviews UX artifacts created by other UX team members
• Utilizes prototyping tools and UX toolkits
• May create, review, and manage submissions to development code streams with high quality
• Creates and delivers usability studies
• Communicates design rationale across product creation disciplines and personnel
• Records usability / UX problems with clear explanations and recommendations for improvement
• Works closely with product managers, development teams, and other designers

Minimum Education / Certification Requirements and Experience

Preferred Qualifications and Skills