Product Designer- REMOTE

Date Posted:
2021-08-04-07:00
Country:
United States of America
Location:
PW100: East Hartford 400 Main Street, East Hartford, CT, 06118 USA

Pratt & Whitney is working to, once again, transform the future of flightdesigning, building and servicing engines unlike any the world has ever seen. And because transformation begins from within, were seeking the people to drive it. So, calling all curious.

Come ready to explore and youll find a place where your talent takes flightbeyond the borders of title, a country or your comfort zone. Bring your passion and commitment and well welcome you into a tight-knit team that takes our mission personally. Channel your drive to make a difference into shaping an organization and an industry thats evolving fast to the future.

Where the difference you make is on display every day. Just look up.

Are you ready to go beyond

The Digital Technologies Organization has a rare opportunity for an experienced Product Designer. The Product Designer will help define and design the next generation of Pratt & Whitney digital applications, products and services. As a member of our cross-functional team, you will contribute to provide UI and UX design support to your dedicated product development team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate cross-functionally on a team of designers, product managers, engineers, data scientists, and project managers.
• Create high-quality artifacts that capture critical conceptual aspects of an experience, including high quality user interfaces, personas, customer journey maps, service blueprints, application maps, task flow diagrams, wireframes, et al.
• Work in an agile software development environment.
• Help contribute and support the design system team.
• Design and/or participate in primary (in-field) and secondary research activities with customers, employees and other relevant business stakeholders.
• Understand complex business processes and audience constituencies.
• Present design work, articulate underlying motivations and support decisions through argument.
• Tight collaboration with product managers to help define, review and refine user stories and related project documentation.
• Participate in design critique sessions; both providing and responding to feedback on designs.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree with 5+ years of related experience OR Masters Degree with 3+ years of related experience.
• US Citizenship required due to government contract.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Degree in Design, HCI or CS.
• Digital Design portfolio required for consideration.
• Propensity for self-directed problem-solving and the ability to work with limited guidance.
• Extensive experience applying user-centered design processes and connecting business and user needs to design decisions.
• Experience designing, participating in and leveraging user research activities; ability to understand and gain fluency with complex problems and drive elegant solutions that address them.

• Deep systems thinking skills; fluency with conceptual considerations such as modularity, hierarchy, inheritance and flow.
• Ability to identify, articulate and leverage common design patterns and argue why they should or shouldnt be used.
• Familiarity with concerns and constraints that inform product experiences (distinct from websites and other media).
• Ability to create high-quality visual artifactsdiagrams, presentations, wireframes, et al. that drive understanding between users, team members and project stakeholders.
• Experience using and working with component-based design systems.
• Mastery of digital design tools, such as Sketch, Adobe XD and Figma et al.
• Fluency with simple prototyping tools, such as Invision, Figma, and experience with more advanced prototyping tools that offer richer interaction and animation capabilities, such as Principle or Framer.
• General familiarity with technology underpinnings of interfaces, including presentation layer code (JavaScript/CSS/HTML, Objective-C, etc.) and architecture for web and mobile experiences.
• Familiarity with agile methodologies, particularly as they pertain to design.
• Strong presentation, written and verbal communication skills.
• Comfort collaborating with cross-functional teams (IRL and remote) and working under tight deadlines.

Location

Remote

Raytheon Technologies is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.

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