UX Designer - SAP (Palo Alto, CA)

SAP’s Mobile user experience team is looking for a talented and driven individual to work on SAP’s mobile enterprise applications portfolio and help provide elegant and scalable solutions for rapid mobile application development platforms. Our mission is to provide consumer grade user experiences for SAP’s mobile business applications. The objective of this position is to work in close collaboration with product management and development to design industry-leading applications for mobile platforms such as iOS, Android, Windows 8 and others. The Sr. User Experience Designer works with the product team to translate business requirements into engaging and elegant designs. Products are based on the tenets of design thinking and user centered design but at the same time respect market and sales drivers, business and technical requirements. You will identify and drive 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, you will be a key contributor in assuring best-practice user experience 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. Knowledge of storyboards and packaging the day in the life of a user in the form of a compelling story. Performing and reporting on task analyses. 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 Minimum 3 years of experience leading projects and working with cross-functional teams. 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 mobile, desktop and cloud-based technologies. Knowledge of major mobile platforms such as iOS, Android, Windows 8 & BlackBerry 10 Knowledge of HTML5/CSS3 and its capabilities and strengths.Â

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